death_date allegiance ethnicity birth_date alt honorific_prefix death_place battles placeofburial spouse rank image battles_label name caption native_name_lang placeofburial_coordinates relations birth_place nickname native_name article_title
4 february 1843 united kingdom british army greece old greek army greek 03 april 1770 theodoros kolokotronis portrait his excellency athens , greece russo-turkish war , greek war of independence first cemetery of athens aikaterini karousou major during the war of independence -rrb- lieutenant general -lrb- hellenic -lrb- army -rrb- british army -rrb- general-in-chief -lrb- irregular forces kolokotronis theodore.jpg wars theodoros kolokotronis Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης theodoros kolokotronis . portrait by dionysios tsokos gr 37 57 47.38 n 23 44 16.35 e panos konstantinos -lrb- kolinos -rrb- kolokotronis , panos kolokotronis , eleni kolokotronis kolokotroni , ioannis -lrb- gennaios -rrb- kolokotronis , ramοvouni , vasiliko , messenia , ottoman empire '' man of the morea -rrb- Ο Γέρος του Μοριά o geros tou moria '' -lrb- the old theodoros kolokotronis Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης theodoros kolokotronis

theodoros kolokotronis

theodoros kolokotronis -lrb- ; 3 april 1770 -- 4 february 1843 -rrb- was a greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the greek war of independence -lrb- 1821 -- 1829 -rrb- against the ottoman empire .
kolokotronis 's greatest success was the defeat of the ottoman army under mahmud dramali pasha at the battle of dervenakia in 1822 .
in 1825 , he was appointed commander-in-chief of the greek forces in the peloponnese .
today , kolokotronis ranks among the most revered of the protagonists of greece 's war of independence .
