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en-wikipedia-org-6746		Lord Byron - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	17406	2069	77	During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.[6] Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died of disease leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.[7] He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted after the First and Second Siege of Missolonghi. The journey provided the opportunity to flee creditors, as well as a former love, Mary Chaworth (the subject of his poem from this time, "To a Lady: On Being Asked My Reason for Quitting England in the Spring").[36] Letters to Byron from his friend Charles Skinner Matthews reveal that a key motive was also the hope of homosexual experience.[44] Attraction to the Levant was probably also a reason; he had read about the Ottoman and Persian lands as a child, was attracted to Islam (especially Sufi mysticism), and later wrote, "With these countries, and events connected with them, all my really poetical feelings begin and end."[45][46]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6746.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6746.txt