Timoleon Vassos Military person

Timoleon Vassos or Vasos (Greek: Τιμολέων Βάσσος or Βάσος; 1836–1929) was a Greek Army officer and general. He was born in Athens in 1836, the younger son of the hero of the Greek Revolution Vasos Mavrovouniotis. He studied at the Hellenic Army Academy and continued his studies in France, before being appointed as aide de camp to King George I. In February 1897, as a Colonel, he was sent at the head of an expeditionary force to Crete to assist the local Cretan revolt against the Ottoman Empire, an act which precipitated the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. He eventually reached the rank of Major General and garrison commander of Athens. He died in Athens in October 1929.

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Timoleon Vassos
Alias (AKA)Τιμολέων Βάσ[σ]ος (Greek)
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1836
Birth place
Athens
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1929
Place of death
Athens

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allegianceKingdom of Greece
military operations
Greco-Turkish War (1897)
military branch
Hellenic Army
relation
Alexandros Vasos

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