Timoleon Vassos

{{Short description|Greek Army officer and general}} {{Infobox military person | name = Timoleon Vassos | native_name = Τιμολέων Βάσσος or Βάσος | native_name_lang = ell | image = File:Timoleon Vassos.jpg | image_size = 180 | caption = Timoleon Vassos {{circa}} 1914 | birth_date = {{circa}} 1836 | death_date = {{circa}} {{death year and age|1929|1836}} | birth_place = [[Athens]], [[Kingdom of Greece]] | death_place = [[Athens]], [[Second Hellenic Republic]] | allegiance = {{flagicon|Greece|royal}} [[Kingdom of Greece]] | branch = {{army|Greece}} | service_years = | rank = [[File:GR-Army-OF7-1912.svg|15px]] [[Major General]] | service_number = | commands = Garrison Commander of Athens | battles = {{tree list}} *[[Greco-Turkish War (1897)]] **[[Cretan Revolt (1897–1898)|Cretan Revolt]] {{tree list/end}} | battles_label = Wars | awards = | alma_mater = [[Hellenic Military Academy]] | relations = [[Vasos Mavrovouniotis]] (Father) <br>[[Alexandros Vasos]] (Brother) | other_work = [[Aide-de-Camp]] to King [[George I of Greece|George I]] }} {{Needs additional citations|date=July 2022}} '''Timoleon Vassos''' or '''Vasos''' ({{langx|el|Τιμολέων Βάσσος}} or Βάσος; {{circa}} 1836–1929) was a [[Hellenic 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|Hellenic Military Academy]] and continued his studies in [[France]] before being appointed as ''[[aide de camp]]'' to King [[George I of Greece|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]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kitromilides |first=Paschalis M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNKqBgAAQBAJ&dq=timoleon+vasos&pg=PA62 |title=Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship |date=2006-06-26 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-2700-4 |language=en}}</ref> He eventually reached the rank of [[major general|Major General]] and garrison commander of Athens. [[File:Timoleon Vassos and son, Crete 1897.jpg|left|thumb|Timoleon Vassos and his son in Crete c. 1897]] He died in Athens in October 1929.

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