Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

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Army-General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Along with fellow French officers Joseph Serrant and Toussaint Louverture, Abram Petrovich Gannibal from Imperial Russia and Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski from Poland, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was noted as a man of African descent leading European troops as a general officer. All four commanded as officers in the French Army and apart from Gannibal, who was only captain and engineer-sapper in the Army of Louis XV during his formative years, they all gained their general ranks in the French Army, about four decades after Gannibal had done the same in Russia. Yet Dumas was the first person of color in the French military to become brigadier general, divisional general, and general-in-chief of a French army.

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Battles (4)

• 1792

  Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars

  War of the First Coalition · French Republic

• 1797

  Siege of Mantua

  War of the First Coalition · France

• 1798

  Battle of the Pyramids

  Napoleonic Wars · French Republic

• 1798

  Mediterranean campaign of 1798

  War of the Second Coalition · France