Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski
Polish general
Died when: 32 years 339 days (395 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Wladyslaw Franciszek Jablonowski (25 October 1769 – 29 September 1802) was a Polish general and military commander, who fought for France during the Napoleonic Wars.
He is the first known Polish general of African descent.After enlisting in the colonial service, he died of yellow fever in 1802 in Saint-Domingue, where the Polish Legionnaires were initially fighting with the French against former enslaved African Haitians seeking freedom.
Many other French and Poles died of yellow fever and Napoleon withdrew his surviving forces.Some of the Polish soldiers allied with the slaves in their quest for freedom, and about 400–500 settled on the island after the war.
They were granted full citizenship by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led the country.
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