When he is with me, I confess that his arguments are so convincing that I quickly begin to imagine that they are my own.
King of Greece (r. 1913–17; 1920–22)
He commanded Greek victories that doubled the nation's size, then split it nearly to civil war by refusing to break with Germany — his brother-in-law's empire — as the Great War raged.
Constantine I became King of Greece in 1913 after his father's assassination, having already led Greek forces to triumph in the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 under Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. Educated in Germany and married to Kaiser Wilhelm II's sister Sophia, he twice dismissed Venizelos and blocked Greece's entry into World War I on the Allied side, sparking the National Schism that divided the country between royalist Old Greece and pro-Venizelos New Greece. His refusal cost Greece Fort Roupel and Macedonian territory to Bulgaria; his paramilitary units attacked Venizelos supporters a…
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When he is with me, I confess that his arguments are so convincing that I quickly begin to imagine that they are my own.
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