Tomás António Garcia Rosado, (4 March 1854 in

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– 30 August 1937 in

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, Portugal) was an infantry officer and general of the

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Life

In 1895, after accompanying Afonso, Duke of Porto to

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, he received the 344th Grand Cross in the

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

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that fought with the

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in the Western Front, during

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. 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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia Rosado, Tomas Antonio 1854 births 1937 deaths Governors-general of Mozambique Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Portuguese generals Portuguese military personnel of World War I People from Beja, Portugal 19th-century Portuguese military personnel Ambassadors of Portugal to the United Kingdom