General Tomás António Garcia Rosado Tomás António Garcia Rosado , KCMG Beja, Portugal – 30 August 1937 in Sintra , Portugal) was an infantry officer and general of the Portuguese Army .
Life
In 1895, after accompanying Afonso, Duke of Porto to Portuguese India , he received the 344th Grand Cross in the Order of the Tower and Sword .
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 army corps that fought with the Allies in the Western Front , during World War I .
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.
