Before an expedition that Byron had financed could sail for the Greek War of Independence (1821 and 1832 against the Ottoman Empire), on 15 February, 1824, he fell ill, The usual remedy of bloodletting weakened him further. He made a partial recovery, but in early April he caught a violent cold which therapeutic bleeding, insisted on by his doctors, aggravated. It is suspected this treatment, carried out with unsterilised medical instruments, may have caused him to develop sepsis. He developed a violent fever, and died in Missolonghi, Greece on 19 April, 1824.

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