Dr. Kate Lister

That kind of mercenaries.

Yeah.

These Greek recruits.

Eventually he goes out and he probably gets malaria.

That's probably what he gets.

But what actually kills him is the doctors trying to bleed him, which they do endlessly.

They do it every day.

They take so much blood from him.

Screams are heard coming from his tent of him saying, close the veins, close the veins.

and they bleed him so much that eventually he dies.

So he doesn't even get this big hero's death that he was really hoping for.

He's bled to death after contracting malaria, but never actually sees battle.

Oh, it did.

It absolutely did.

And when he died, because he was such a big name in Britain, notorious or not, the fact that he died fighting for Greek independence really raised the profile of the Greek cause and more people joined in.

And he is remembered as a hero.

All right, he didn't see any battle, but he did go out there to try and

fight for Greek independence.

So it wasn't in vain, I think, that he would have been very proud of the fact that his death raised the profile of this particular struggle.

And as always, when people actually die, then we romanticize them, don't we?