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'''Panagiotis Danglis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]:'''Παναγιώτης Δαγκλής''')([[1853]]–[[March 9]], [[1924]]) was [[Hellenic Army]] general and politician.

Born in [[Agrinio]], he graduated from the ''[[Scholi Evelpidon]]'' Officer Academy in [[1878]] as a Second Lieutenant of Artillery, later followed by a further year of studies in Belgium. Upon his return, as Captain, he was appointed adjutant to the 1884-1887 French military mission, which had been tasked with modernizing the Greek Army. He was a recognized expert in artillery, teaching at the Army Academy and inventing the Schneider-Dangli Gun in [[1893]]. During the [[Greco-Turkish War of 1897]] he served as chief of staff of I Brigade in the [[Epirus]] sector. As a Lieutenant Colonel, he was transferred to the General Staff Corps in [[1904]].

Promoted to Colonel in [[1907]], he participated in the latter stages of the [[Macedonian Struggle]], supervising operations in the [[Salonica]] area, under the ''nom de guerre'' of ''Parmenion''. Promoted to Major General in [[1911]], he was appointed head of the Army General Staff in August [[1912]], partly because of his abilities, but also as a balance to the more royalist and Germanophile staff officers like [[Ioannis Metaxas]]. During the [[First Balkan War]], he served as chief of staff to Crown Prince [[King Constantine I|Constantine]]'s Army of [[Thessaly]] until November 1912, when he became a member of the Greek delegation in the [[Treaty of London, 1913|London Peace Conference]]. In March [[1913]] he was promoted to Lieutenant General and placed in command of the Epirus Army Corps.

In late [[1914]] he left the army and went into politics, joining the [[Liberal Party]] of [[Eleftherios Venizelos]] in [[1915]] and elected as an MP for [[Epirus]]. He became [[Minister for National Defence (Greece)|Minister for War]] and supported Venizelos during his struggle against King Constantine in [[1916]], joining his Triumvirate, the "Provisional Government of National Defence". In [[1917]], when Greece joined the [[First World War]], he was appointed nominal commander-in-chief of the Greek Army, a position he retained until the war's end, when he returned to his parliamentary office. In [[1921]], Danglis succeeded the self-exiled Venizelos as president of the Liberal Party.

He died in [[Athens]] in [[1924]].

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