Ivan Tsonchev was born on 19 August 1859 in
Dryanovo, then in the
Ottoman Empire. He became a volunteer and a participant in the
Russo-Turkish War from 1877-1878. After the establishment of the
Bulgarian Principality he became an officer and participated in the
Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885. Later he was the leader of the
Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee in the period 1901-1903. Tsonchev was the main organizer of the
Gorna Dzhumaya Uprising in 1902 and a participant in the
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903. General Ivan Tsonchev died on 16 December 1910. ==References==