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The Don Pacifico Affair – An Episode in Gunboat Diplomacy, 1847

  Return to Contents of 1847   Athens, Greece, Sunday 4 April 1847.   On Easter Sunday 1847, a mob attacked the Athens home of David Pacifico, a Jewish British subject, who they blamed for a ban on the traditional burning of an effigy of Judas Iscariot during Easter. The ban had been imposed by […]