Alfred-Amédée Dodds
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Alfred-Amédée Dodds (Saint-Louis Sénégal, 6, Paris, 18) was a French General, commander of French forces in Sénégal from 1890, commander of French forces in the second expeditionary force to suppress The Boxer Rebellion, and commander of French forces during the Second Franco-Dahomean War. As both an octoroon and a metis, he was famed in the African Diaspora at the beginning of the Twentieth century as an example of African leadership, despite the fact that he led the destruction of one of West Africa's most powerful pre-colonial states.
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- François Manchuelle, « Métis et colons : la famille Devès et l'émergence politique des Africains au Sénégal, 1881-1897. » , Cahiers d'études africaines, 1984, 24, n° 96, pp. 477-504.
