A Woman to Know: Laskarina Bouboulina
Not bad for a 50-year-old grandmother in the 1820s. — historian April Householder
(image via Wikimedia Commons)
Laskarina was born in a Constantinople prison in 1777. Her parents were political revolutionaries seeking to topple the Ottoman Empire's control of Greece, and when she escaped to a far-off island as a young woman, Laskarina vowed to follow in …
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