Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French general in Revolutionary France. Along with Toussaint Louverture in Haiti and Abram Petrovich Gannibal in Imperial Russia, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas is notable as a man of European and African descent leading European troops as a general officer.
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762-1806) On March 25, 1762, Thomas Alexandre Dumas was born. Dumas was the Father of the famous French author Alexandre Dumas and the first black General in the French army. The story of his life should become the blueprint for his son's most famous novels ' T he Count of Monte Christo ' and ' The Three Musketeers '.