Tomás António Garcia Rosado

General Tomás António Garcia Rosado

Tomás António Garcia Rosado, KCMG (4 March 1854 in Beja, Portugal – 30 August 1937 in Sintra, Portugal) was an infantry officer and general of the Portuguese Army.[1]

Life

In 1895, after accompanying Afonso, Duke of Porto to Portuguese India, he received the 344th Grand Cross in the Order of the Tower and Sword.[2]

He stayed in Mozambique in 1897–1898, and returned there to be Governor between 1902 and 1905.[3]

As a general, he replaced on 25 August 1918 Fernando Tamagnini de Abreu e Silva as commander of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP), a 55,000 men army corps that fought with the Allies in the Western Front, during World War I.[3]

After his return, he became chief of the General Staff of the Portuguese Army between 1919 and 1924. Between 1926 and 1934, he was Portuguese Ambassador to the United Kingdom.[3]

References

  1. ^ "General Tomás António Garcia Rosado (1864-1937)". Repositorio Comum. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
  2. ^ "ROSADO, Tomás António Garcia". Portugal 1914-1918. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
  3. ^ a b c Assis, José Luis. "Rosado, Tomás Garcia". International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
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