The Main Square - Pylos, Greece
The Main Square - Pylos, Greece. The monument of the Three Admirals. The monument bears the likenesses of British naval commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, the French Admiral Henri de Rigny (pictured here) and a Russian Admiral Lodewijk Heyden, on either side there is a Turkish and a Venetian canon. Pylos was the site of the battle of Navarino, the turning point in Greece's War of Independence
Picture No
10415806
Media ID
46521857
Size
4851px x 2972px
(2.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
1931
