Xenophon Stratigos was born in
Corfu on 7 July 1869. He studied in the
Hellenic Military Academy, graduating on 10 August 1890 as a 2nd Lieutenant of Engineers. He fought in the
Greco-Turkish War of 1897, after which he was sent for studies at the
Prussian War College in Berlin. During the
Balkan Wars of 1912–13, he served as a staff officer in the operations department of the Greek General Headquarters, with the rank of captain. and again in the same post in the cabinet of
Petros Protopapadakis (9 May – 28 August 1922). Following the Greek defeat in Asia Minor and the
September 1922 Revolution, he was condemned to lifelong imprisonment by a
revolutionary tribunal on 15 November for high treason. He remained in prison until pardoned in a general amnesty, and left for
Switzerland. There he dedicated himself to writing, compiling a study of the Asia Minor Campaign (
Η Ελλάς εν Μικρά Ασία) in 1925, as well as a Greek translation of Balck's
Entwicklung der Taktik im Weltkriege. He died in
Davos on 11 March 1927. == References ==