Thrasyvoulos Manos
Thrasyvoulos Manos (Greek: Θρασύβουλος Μάνος, 1835-1922) was a Greek army officer.
Thrasyvoulos Manos was born in 1835, to the Phanariot Manos family.[1] He entered the Hellenic Army Academy and graduated as an artillery officer.[1] He joined the Cretan uprising of 1866 as a volunteer, but was wounded and taken prisoner by the Ottomans at the battle of Vafe. He was brought to Constantinople, but managed to escape and return to Greece.[1]
During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, he led the Greek forces in the Epirus front. After the war he was accused of negligence and blamed for the poor performance of Greek troops, but was exonerated and published an account of the campaign.[1]
He retired with the rank of major general on 29 January 1918, and died at Athens in 1922.[1] He was the father of the politician and poet Konstantinos Manos, and the army officer Petros Manos,[1] who was the father of Aspasia Manos, the consort of King Alexander of Greece.
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Further reading
- Manos, Thrasyvoulos (1899). Έκθεσις επί της πολεμικής ενεργείας εν Ηπείρω κατά τον Ελληνοτουρκικόν πόλεμον του 1897 [Report on the military actions in Epirus during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897] (in Greek). Athens: Ministry of Military Affairs.