Thrasyvoulos Manos

{{Short description|Greek major general who led forces in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897}}

{{Infobox Soldier

| name = Thrasyvoulos Manos

| native_name = Θρασύβουλος Μάνος

| image = Thrasyboulos Manos.JPG

| caption = Thrasyvoulos Manos {{circa}} 1894

| birth_date = 16 November 1835

| death_date = 1922

| birth_place = Nafplio, Kingdom of Greece

| death_place = Athens, Kingdom of Greece

| allegiance = 25px Kingdom of Greece

| branch = {{army|Greece}}

| serviceyears = ?–1918

| rank = 15px Major General

| battles = {{tree list}}

| alma_mater = Hellenic Military Academy

| spouse = Roxanne Mavromichalis

| children = Konstantinos Manos
Petros Manos

| relations = Caradja family
Soutzos family
Aspasia Manos (Granddaughter)

}}

Thrasyvoulos Manos ({{langx|el|Θρασύβουλος Μάνος}}, 1835–1922) was an officer, later Major general of the Hellenic Army.

Early life and ancestry

Born in 1835, to the Phanariot Manos family, he was the son of the poet, writer and philosopher Konstatinos Manos (1785-1835) and his wife, Sevastia Argyropoulos (1806-1883). His father was the grandson of Nicholas Caradja, Prince of Wallachia, while his mother was the granddaughter of Michael Drakos Soutzos, Prince of Moldavia.{{Great Military and Naval Encyclopaedia|volume=4|pages=454–455|article=Μάνοι|first=G.|last=Aspreas}}

Biography

He entered the Hellenic Military Academy and graduated as an artillery officer. 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.

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.

He retired with the rank of major general on 29 January 1918, and died at Athens in 1922.

Personal life

In September 1868 in Paris, he was married to Roxane Mavromichalis (1848-1905). They were parents of the politician and poet Konstantinos Manos, and the army officer Petros Manos, who was the father of Aspasia Manos, the consort of King Alexander of Greece.

Thrasyvoulos Manos

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