What is Alexander Ypsilantis?
{{Infobox military person |name=Alexander Ypsilantis (1792–1828) |native_name={{lang-el|Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης}}<br />{{lang-ro|Alexandru Ipsilanti}}<br />{{lang-ru|Александр Константинович Ипсиланти}} |birth_date=12 December 1792 |death_date={{d-da|31 January 1828|12 December 1792}} |birth_place= [[Constantinople]], [[Ottoman Empire]] |death_place= [[Vienna]], [[Austrian Empire]] |image=Alexander2.jpg |image_size=200 |caption=Ypsilantis in [[Sacred Band (1821)|Sacred Band]]'s attire<br />[[National Historical Museum of Greece]] |rank=[[Major general]] |commands= |allegiance= {{plainlist| *{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Russian Empire]] *[[File:Flag of the Sacred Band of 1821.svg|22px|border]] [[Greek War of Independence|Greek revolutionaries]] }} |unit= |nickname= |serviceyears=1805–1821 |laterwork= |battles= [[Napoleonic Wars]]<br/> *[[Battle of Dresden]] [[Greek War of Independence]]<br/> *[[Battle of Dragashani]] |awards= }} '''Alexander Ypsilantis''' (1792–1828) was a main participant in the [[Greek War of Independence]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1821. He was also a senior officer of the [[Russian Empire|Imperial Russian]] [[cavalry]] during the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} ===Sources=== * {{cite book | last=Brewer | first=David | title=The Greek War of Independence : the struggle for freedom from Ottoman oppression and the birth of the modern Greek nation | url=https://archive.org/details/greekwarofindepe0000brew | publisher=Overlook Press | location=Woodstock, N.Y | year=2001 | isbn=1-58567-172-X }} * {{cite book | last=Dakin | first=Douglas | title=The unification of Greece, 1770-1923 | publisher=Benn | location=London | year=1984 }} * {{in lang|ru}} [http://adjudant.ru/cavaler/24-4.htm князь Александр Константинович Ипсиланти] {{commonscat|Alexander Ypsilantis}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ypsilantis, Alexander}} [[Category:1828 deaths]] [[Category:1792 births]] [[Category:Greek people]]