Timoleon Vassos

Timoleon Vassos or Vasos (Greek: Τιμολέων Βάσσος or Βάσος; c. 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.

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.

[1] He eventually reached the rank of Major General and garrison commander of Athens.

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Timoleon Vassos and his son in Crete c. 1897