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Henri Louis Augustin de Boissieu du Bois-Noir (18 July 1741 - 1795) was a French general.
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Henri Louis Augustin de Boissieu du Bois-Noir (18 July 1741 - 1795) was a French general.
Boissieu was born in Bois-Noir on 18 July 1741. He graduated from military school in 1757 with the rank of second lieutenant of artillery. [1]
In 1784, Boissieu was promoted to brigadier general of infantry; [2] he was made maréchal de camp in 1791. [3]
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
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