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Christoph Neeser (Greek: Χριστόφορος Νέζερ; (1808-1883) was a Bavarian officer who settled in Greece. He arrived in the country in 1833 in the expeditionary corps that accompanied Prince Otto, Greece's first king. In mid-March of the same year, as a lieutenant, he was appointed head of the Athens guard.
Nearchus or Nearchos (Greek: Νέαρχος; c. 360 – 300 BC) was one of the Greek officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great.He is known for his celebrated expeditionary voyage starting from the Indus River, through the Persian Gulf and ending at the mouth of the Tigris River following the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great, in 326–324 BC.
This list is for people who held general officer rank (including, after 1946, Brigadier General) in the regular Hellenic Army since 1828. It does not include the numerous generals of the irregular troops appointed during the Greek War of Independence, unless they also received a general rank in the post-war regular army.
Daily Commuter crossword SUDOKU. Play the USA TODAY Sudoku Game. ... Jumbles: IMPLY SWISH AWAKEN HYBRID. Answer: The general was the highest-ranking officer there, and everyone called him − BY ...
James Megellas – retired United States Army officer, the most decorated officer in the history of the 82nd Airborne Division, received a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, and been nominated for the Medal of Honor; Charles Moskos – leading military sociologist in the US Military. Author of Greek Americans: Struggle and Success.
The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there was a council of archons which exerted a form of executive government. From the late 8th century BC there were three archons: the archon eponymos, the polemarchos (originally with a military role, which was transferred to the ten strategoi in 501 BC), and the archon basileus (the ceremonial vestige of the Athenian ...
Michael Moutoussis (Greek: Μιχαήλ Μουτούσης, 1885 – 16 March 1956) was a Hellenic Army officer and pioneer of military aviation. Together with Aristeidis Moraitinis , he performed the first naval air mission in history during the Balkan Wars .
Nicholas Metropolis (1915–1999) - American born Greek physicist. [22] Yiannis N. Moschovakis (1938) - Writer, also worked as theorist in University of California, Los Angeles. [23] Christos Papakyriakopoulos (1914–1976) - Often called Papa, he specialized in geometric topology. [24]