fuckyeahhistorycrushes:General Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, was
fuckyeahhistorycrushes:General Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, was the first black general in French history and remains the highest-ranking person of color of all time in a continental European army. He was the first person of color in the French military to become brigadier general, the first to become divisional general, and the first to become general-in-chief of a French army. Dumas shared the status of the highest-ranking black officer in the Western world only with Toussaint Louverture until 1989, when the American Colin Powell became a four-star general, the closest United States equivalent of Général d’Armée, Dumas’s highest rank. -- source link