Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (born 1792)

Alexander Ypsilantis

Greek revolutionary and commander (1792–1828)

Alexandros Ypsilantis was a Greek nationalist politician who was member of a prominent Phanariot Greek family, a prince of the Danubian Principalities, a senior officer of the Imperial Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars, and a leader of the Filiki Etaireia, a secret…