Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas
| Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas | |
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| Born |
23 November 1753 Montpellier, France |
| Died | 16 October 1837 (aged 83) Paris, France |
| Allegiance |
 Kingdom of France, Kingdom of France (1791-1792), French First Republic, First French Empire,.svg){kind=small} Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy
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| Years of service | 1780–1815 |
| Rank | General of Division |
| Battles/wars |
American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars |
| Awards | Name inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, |
| Other work |
Peer of France, Member of the council of state, Author of military memoirs |
Guillaume Mathieu, comte Dumas (23 November 1753 – 16 October 1837) was a French general.
Born in Montpellier, France of a noble family, he joined the French army in 1773 and entered upon active service in 1780, as aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War. He had a share in all the principal engagements that occurred during a period of nearly two years. On the conclusion of peace in 1783 he returned to France as a major.
During 1784 to 1786 Dumas explored the archipelago and the coasts of Turkey. He was present at the siege of Amsterdam in 1787, where he co-operated with the Dutch against the Prussians.
After the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789) he acted with Lafayette and the constitutional liberal party. The National Constituent Assembly entrusted him with the command of the escort which conducted King Louis XVI to Paris after the Flight to Varennes (June 1791). In 1791 as a maréchal de camp he was appointed to a command at Metz, where he rendered important service in improving the discipline of the troops.
Chosen a member of the Legislative Assembly in the same year by the département of Seine-et-Oise, he was in 1792 elected president of the Assembly. When the extreme republicans gained the ascendancy, however, he judged it prudent to make his escape to England. Returning after a brief interval, under the apprehension that his father-in-law would be held responsible for his absence, he arrived in Paris in the midst of the Reign of Terror, and had to flee to Switzerland.
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