Who is the most badass person in history that no one knows about?

This French General of African descent was so badass that even Napoleon was jealous of him. His enemies referred to him as the, “Black Devil.”
 

His father was a French aristocrat and his mother a Haitian woman. He was raised in a typical aristocratic fashion and his father spared no expense in his military education.

For a man of the 18th century, he appeared a fearsome giant. Six-foot-two tall and insanely strong, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was like Hercules.

During the French Revolution, he joined the French army and quickly moved through the ranks due to his skill in swordsmanship, strength, and ingenuity in battle tactics. He gained glory, fame and everyone in Paris knew his name.

Here is a list of his badassery.He single-handedly defeated a dozen Austrian soldiers, captured twelve as prisoners and led them back to his camp. He also did this a second time and took sixteen prisoners.
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas wasn’t afraid to lead his own men into battle from the front. He successfully defeated an Austrian cavalry, captured a whole city and took 1500 prisoners all in one day!
When his horse was shot from under him, General badass refused to be taken down and used his dead horse as a cover from musketfire. As soldiers charged, he took them down with each stroke and held the cavalry back before reinforcements came.
He saved his future wife’s village during the French Revolution and that’s how they met and fell in love.

Because of his battle prowess and reputation as a excellent military tactician, Dumas became a general in Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt. During a revolt that centred in the Grand Mosque of Cairo, he famously captured the Grand Mosque and scattered the rebels. Napoleon admired this feat but was also jealous.

In later years, Napoleon commissioned an artist to paint this historical victory but erased General Dumas and instead had himself painted entering the mosque.
 

The Revolt of Cairo would be historically accurate if it was a black man carrying the sabre.

Compared to Napoleon’s small stature, Dumas cut a dashing figure and this stirred jealousy. The chief medical officer wrote that the Egyptians were dismayed when they caught sight of Napoleon because of how, “short and skinny he was.”

In comparison, he wrote that Dumas with his powerful physique atop his horse appeared formidable and like a centaur. The populace would often wrongfully assume he was the leader of the expedition.

Unlike Napoleon’s lackeys, Dumas wasn’t afraid to speak his mind and criticized the Egyptian campaign, especially after Admiral Nelson defeated the French navy. After a lengthy quarrel, Dumas left the Egyptian campaign to return to France but was captured aboard his ship and languished two years in prison.

After his release, Napoleon remained bitter to the end and blocked any financial assistance to Dumas and his family. When one of Napoleon’s generals brought up General Dumas, Emperor Napoleon stomped his foot and said, “I forbid you ever to speak to me of that man.”

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas died in 1806 but Napoleons hoped to diminish his legacy never came to fruition.

Before his death, he would tell his young son, Alexandre Dumas, stories about his adventurous and heroic days. That son grew up to become a renowned and celebrated author of “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo.”

Alexandre Dumas resurrected his father in stories of glory, honour, chivalry and heroism.

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