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Alfred-Amédée Dodds

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33: 330: 556: 179:(6 February 1842 – 17 July 1922) was the commander of French forces in Senegal from 1890, commander of French forces in the second expeditionary force to suppress the 495: 541: 551: 576: 571: 500: 273: 591: 581: 561: 586: 516: 299: 405: 263:
to the last English governor of Saint-Louis. John Dodds was married to a Senegalese woman of French and African descent.
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from 1878 to 1879. Made battalion leader in 1879, he then served again in Senegal and participated in the fighting in
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From 1903 to 1907 he was high commander of naval infantry and a member of the High Council of War. He was given the
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from 1879 to 1883. Then made a lieutenant colonel, he served in the war of conquest in
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at the beginning of the 20th century as an example of African leadership.
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in 1898. In 1900, he was given the High Command of colonial troops in
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A colonel in 1887, he served in the counter-insurgency warfare in the
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of French and African descent. He was the eldest of 10 children.
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His paternal grandfather was John Dodds, a British Army officer and
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where he distinguished himself during the riots of 1868.
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French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War
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descent; his mother was Charlotte de la Chapelle, a
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Saint-Louis
France
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Troupes de marine
Armée de la Loire
Armée de l'Est
Général de division
Franco-Prussian War
Sino-French War
2nd Franco-Dahomean War
Boxer Rebellion
First
Second Franco-Dahomean War
quadroon
Métis
African diaspora
Dahomey
Béhanzin
Radical Party
Georges Clemenceau
Saint-Louis
quadroon
Métis
signare
aide-de-camp
École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
Troupes de marine
French colony
Réunion

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