Alfred-Amédée Dodds

Alfred Dodds
Alfred Dodds
Birth name	Alfred Amédée Dodds
Born	6 February 1842; Saint-Louis, Senegal
Died	17 July 1922 (aged 80); Paris, France
Buried	Père Lachaise Cemetery
Branch	Troupes de marine; Armée de la Loire; Armée de l'Est;
Service years	1862–1907
Rank	Général de division
Wars	Franco-Prussian War; Sino-French War; 2nd Franco-Dahomean War;

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 First and 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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