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Images: Greek General Theodore Kolokotronis (wearing his helmet) and Adamantios Koraes, Greek Enlightenment scholar are included below.
Note: "Philhellenes" (Greek: philo=friend; hellenes=Greeks) / Greco-philes, so to speak; supporters of the Greeks. This article is about the immense importance of the American Enlightenment, the contribution of the American War of Independence and the American suppoerters of the Greeks to the Greek War of Independence. We always hear about the European Enlightenment and the overrated French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire, and few actually know about the American Enlightenment, the most important of all! The American War of Independence (1776) took place before the French Revolution (1789). The Greek War of Independence followed in 1821. Also, few people know that Rousseau and Voltaire were in fact big time anti-Greeks. When I was a teen student in Athens, they brainwashed us about those two and we were spending countless hours to prepare ourselves for long exams on those scam artists, who stole everything from the ancient Greeks and then they congratulated themselves for having beaten Greece and Rome with their philosophical work, as they both wrote with audacity. We didn't really learn much about American history, not even about the American Enlightenment, American Philhellenes-many of the founding fathers of the American nation and drafters of the American constitution-and their support to the liberation of Greece from the Turkish yoke. So it it ridiculous and self-defeating for the Greeks today to think high of anti-Greeks and at the same time ignore some facts like the above.
Images: Greek General Theodore Kolokotronis (wearing his helmet) and Adamantios Koraes, Greek Enlightenment scholar are included below.
Note: "Philhellenes" (Greek: philo=friend; hellenes=Greeks) / Greco-philes, so to speak; supporters of the Greeks. This article is about the immense importance of the American Enlightenment, the contribution of the American War of Independence and the American suppoerters of the Greeks to the Greek War of Independence. We always hear about the European Enlightenment and the overrated French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire, and few actually know about the American Enlightenment, the most important of all! The American War of Independence (1776) took place before the French Revolution (1789). The Greek War of Independence followed in 1821. Also, few people know that Rousseau and Voltaire were in fact big time anti-Greeks. When I was a teen student in Athens, they brainwashed us about those two and we were spending countless hours to prepare ourselves for long exams on those scam artists, who stole everything from the ancient Greeks and then they congratulated themselves for having beaten Greece and Rome with their philosophical work, as they both wrote with audacity. We didn't really learn much about American history, not even about the American Enlightenment, American Philhellenes-many of the founding fathers of the American nation and drafters of the American constitution-and their support to the liberation of Greece from the Turkish yoke. So it it ridiculous and self-defeating for the Greeks today to think high of anti-Greeks and at the same time ignore some facts like the above.
