Full Text of HR0167 96th General Assembly
HR0167 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The American Philhellenes Society was established | 3 |
| in 1810 and was in existence until 1840; American Philhellenes | 4 |
| were the brave men who left the safety of America to travel to | 5 |
| Greece and assist in the Greek War for Independence against the | 6 |
| Ottoman Empire; and
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| WHEREAS, Petros Mavromichalis, on behalf of the Messinian | 8 |
| Congress, sent a letter to Secretary of State John Adams, | 9 |
| urging moral support from the newly formed United States; | 10 |
| President Monroe noted that, due to the language of the Monroe | 11 |
| Doctrine, that the United States could not get involved in a | 12 |
| European dispute; and
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| WHEREAS, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, General Sam Houston, | 14 |
| and Edward Everett all spoke on behalf of aiding the Greek | 15 |
| Revolution; and
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| WHEREAS, Volunteer Americans began traveling to Greece to | 17 |
| aid in the struggle for independence; among these brave men was | 18 |
| George Jarvis, a New Yorker, who traveled to Greece in 1822; he | 19 |
| died while in Greece, but his appeals for aid from the United | 20 |
| States soon made him a role model to other Americans; and
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| WHEREAS, Captain Jonathan Miller also traveled to Greece |
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| and was present during the fall of Messolongi to the Ottoman | 2 |
| invaders; Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, a physician from Boston, | 3 |
| also enlisted in the Greek Army, serving as a soldier and | 4 |
| surgeon; he went on to establish a medical center in Aegina and | 5 |
| a school for the blind in Corinth; and
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| WHEREAS, Through the efforts of these gallant men, medical | 7 |
| aid, supplies, as well as other fighters made the journey to | 8 |
| Greece; because of the work of these men, thousands of Greeks | 9 |
| were saved from starvation, disease, and exposure; in addition, | 10 |
| many of these men adopted Greek orphans who came to the United | 11 |
| States and received educations, and later went on to lead | 12 |
| productive lives as American citizens or by returning to the | 13 |
| newly independent Greece; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 16 |
| honor George Jarvis, Captain Jonathan Miller, and Dr. Samuel | 17 |
| Gridley Howe, as well as many other great Americans, for their | 18 |
| valiant efforts in the Greek War for Independence; and be it | 19 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 |
| presented at the banquet honoring the American Philhellenes | 22 |
| Society.
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