Alfred-Amédée Dodds
French general
Died when: 80 years 162 days (965 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
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Alfred Amédée Dodds (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 Boxer Rebellion, and commander of French forces during the Second Franco-Dahomean War.
As both a quadroon and Métis, he was famed in the African diaspora at the beginning of the 20th century as an example of African leadership.
From 1892 to 1894, he led the conquest of Dahomey, one of West Africa's most powerful pre-colonial states, against King Béhanzin.
Close to the French Radical Party, Alfred Dodds owed his nomination as expedition leader to the personal intervention of powerful French politician Georges Clemenceau.
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