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Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (French: [tɔmɑ alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ davi də la pajət(ə)ʁi]; known as Thomas-Alexandre Dumas; 25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a Creole general, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in Revolutionary France.
May 8, 2024 · Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (born March 25, 1762, Saint-Domingue [now Haiti]—died February 26, 1806, Villers-Cotterêts, France) was a French general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Dumas’s mother, Marie-Cessette Dumas, was a Black enslaved woman.
Thomas Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie, dit le général Dumas, est un général de la Révolution française, né le 25 mars 1762 à Jérémie ( Saint-Domingue, aujourd'hui Haïti) et mort le 26 février 1806 ( 7 ventôse de l'an XIV) à Villers-Cotterêts ( Aisne) 1 .
Sep 15, 2012 · Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the French Revolution — but you won't find a statue of him in Paris today.
If all this sounds a bit like the plot of a nineteenth-century novel, that’s because the life of Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie—who took his slave mother’s surname when he enlisted, becoming simply “Alexandre (Alex) Dumas”—inspired some of the most popular novels ever written.
Feb 13, 2023 · Best known as the first person of color in the French military to attain the rank of general, Alexander Dumas took enormous pride in his family heritage. He never saw his mixed race as a disadvantage. In 1789, the France became unstable due to the French Revolution.
Dec 9, 2007 · Dumas is probably best known for fathering the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas (père). The son of the lesser French nobleman Alexandre-Antoine Davy, Marquis de la Pailleterie, and a black slave woman, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was born on the island of Saint Domingue on March 25, 1762.
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was a French Revolutionary War general of mixed-race ancestry born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) who was the highest-ranking black leader in a modern white society until recent times.
Oct 3, 2023 · Thomas-Alexandre did go on to distinguish himself in his military career and was promoted to the rank of general by the age of 31. In doing so, he became the first soldier of Afro-Caribbean heritage to reach that rank in the French army.
highest ranking men of African descent to serve in the French army during the eighteenth century, he is perhaps more widely known simply as the father and. grandfather of two prominent, nineteenth-century French writers: Alexandre. Dumas père (1802-1870) and Alexandre Dumas fils (1825-1895). However,
