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Alfred-Amédée Dodds

1842–1922 · 19th century

Alfred-Amédée Dodds was a French general of mixed African and European descent, born at Saint-Louis in Senegal. He commanded the French expedition of 1892 in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, defeating the army of King Béhanzin and taking the capital Abomey; Béhanzin surrendered in 1894 and Dahomey became a French colony. Dodds later commanded French forces in Indochina.

Alfred-Amédée Dodds
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