Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

Army-General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (French: [tɔmɑ alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ davi də la pajət(ə)ʁi]; 25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) 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 (in Dumas's case, through his mother) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas is the 377th most popular military personnel (up from 427th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Haiti and the most popular Haitian Military Personnel.

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas is most famous for being the son of General Alexandre Dumas, and for his novels.