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Events on Tuesday 25 June 1850 1
1850Don Pacifico AffairPalmerston defends British gunboat diplomacy against GreeceBritish warships blockaded Greek ports to force compensation for Don Pacifico, a Gibraltar-born merchant whose Athens house had been looted. In the House of Commons on 25 June, Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston defended the action with his famous Civis Romanus sum speech, asserting Britain's right to protect its subjects anywhere in the world.