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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Christos Tsolakopoulos
| native_name   = Xρήστος Τσολακόπουλος
| image         = Hristos Tsolakopоulos.jpg
| image_size    = 200px
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| caption       = Tsolakopoulos in the late 1910s
| birth_date    = 1 January 1868{{Greece Old Style dating}}
| death_date    = 1923
| birth_place   = [[Epidavros]] 
| death_place   = [[Nafplio]], [[Kingdom of Greece]]
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| allegiance    = {{flagicon|Greece|royal}} [[Kingdom of Greece]]
| branch        = * {{army|Greece}}
* {{flagicon image|Seal of the Greek-Macedonian Committee.jpg}} [[Hellenic Macedonian Committee|HMC]]
| serviceyears  = 1886–1920
| rank          = [[File:GR-Army-OF7-1912.svg|15px]] [[Major General]]
| commands      = [[35th Infantry Regiment (Greece)|35th Infantry Regiment]]
| battles       = [[Greco-Turkish War of 1897]]<br>[[Macedonian Struggle]]<br>[[Balkan Wars]]
*[[First Balkan War]]
**Siege of [[Ioannina]] ([[Wounded in action|WIA]])
*[[Second Balkan War]]
**[[Battle of Kilkis-Lachanas]]
[[World War I]]
*[[Macedonian front]]
[[Russian Civil War]]
*[[Southern Russia Intervention]]
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'''Christos Tsolakopoulos''' ({{langx|el|Xρήστος Τσολακόπουλος}}, 1868–1923) was a [[Hellenic Army]] officer.

== Life ==
Tsolakopoulos was born on 1 January 1868 in [[Epidavros]]. He enlisted in the [[Hellenic Army]] as a volunteer on 15 August 1886. While a student at the NCO School, he participated in the [[Greco-Turkish War of 1897]]. On 9 August 1899 he graduated from the NCO School as an Infantry 2nd Lieutenant.<ref name="Enc">{{Great Military and Naval Encyclopaedia | volume = 6 | page = 415}}</ref> In 1905, during the early stages of the [[Macedonian Struggle]], he led an armed band in the area of [[Morihovo]] with the ''[[nom de guerre]]'' of '''Kapetan Rembelos''' (Καπετάν Ρέμπελος).<ref name="Enc" />

During the [[Balkan Wars]] of 1912–13 he fought as an officer in the [[8th Infantry Regiment (Greece)|8th Infantry Regiment]], and was wounded in the siege of [[Ioannina]]. He particularly distinguished himself during the [[Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas]] in the [[Second Balkan War]]. Serving as adjutant of the regimental commander, Col. Kambanis, he concealed the Colonel's death from the troops and took over command of the regiment until the end of the battle.<ref name="Enc"/> In 1917–18 he served as commander of the [[35th Infantry Regiment (Greece)|35th Infantry Regiment]] at the [[Strymon (river)|Strymon]] sector of the [[Macedonian front]].<ref name="Enc"/> In 1919 he participated with his regiment in the [[Southern Russia intervention|Allied intervention in Ukraine]], landing at [[Odessa]].<ref name="Enc"/> 

He retired in 1920 with the rank of Colonel, and engaged in politics in town of Nafplio. Upon his death in 1923, the Greek government promoted him to the rank of Major General.<ref name="Enc"/>

==References==
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[[Category:1868 births]]
[[Category:1923 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Greek people]]
[[Category:Hellenic Army major generals]]
[[Category:Greek military personnel of the Balkan Wars]]
[[Category:Greek military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1897)]]
[[Category:Greek military personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:People from Nafplion]]
[[Category:People of the Macedonian Struggle]]
[[Category:Greek military personnel of the Russian Civil War]]