Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe

by Richard Stites

Book Overview

In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields of Ukraine--Colonel Rafael del Riego, General Guglielmo Pepe, General Alexandros Ypsilanti, and Colonel Sergei Muraviev-Apostol--all hoped to overturn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199978085
• ISBN13: 9780199978083
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"