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More light on Tripoli's Protestant Cemetery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

John Wright
John Wright*
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Richmond, UK
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Abstract

Tripoli's Protestant Cemetery is a place of some mystery. One of the most persistent of these mysteries is the whereabouts of the £200 Sterling that the former British Consul General in Tripoli, Colonel Hanmer Warrington, publicly claimed to have deposited in the Bank of England around 1841 to maintain his family mausoleum and the rest of the cemetery. Research at the Bank of England and in the National Archives in Kew, London, has thrown fresh, but not conclusive, light on this matter. Another of the cemetery's mysteries are the five graves, said to be those of some of the United States sailors killed in Tripoli harbour in 1804. In the 1950s and 1960s these graves were the focus of an annual American diplomatic and military commemoration ceremony. But were the graves really what they were supposed to be?

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Libyan Studies , Volume 38 , 2007 , pp. 53 - 60
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 2007

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