The attack on British travellers by Greek brigands, 1870. Three British travellers, E. H. C. Herbert, Frederick Vyner, Mr. Lloyd, and one Italian, Count Boyl di Putifigari, were kidnapped and later murdered by Greek bandits led by Takos Arvanitakis. The events triggered a crisis between Greece and Great Britain. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c. 1880.

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