General Dumas takes over Napoleon

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So, I was reading an article recently saying that the General Dumas (pictured above) was immensely popular during the French Revolution and could have supplanted Napoleon. But our favourite Frenchman outmanoeuvred him politically, and everyone forgot about him.

So, question, could Dumas become the equivalent of a Napoleon, as in the chief and leader of the French state, and what impact would that have?

Also the fact that he would be the first Black leader of a European country?

Thanks for your answers!
 
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So, I was reading an article recently saying that the General Dumas (pictured above) was immensely popular during the French Revolution and could have supplanted Napoleon. But our favourite Frenchman outmanoeuvred him politically, and everyone forgot about him.

So, question, could Dumas become the equivalent of a Napoleon, as in the chief and leader of the French state, and what impact would that have?

Also the fact that he would be the first Black leader of a European country?

Thanks for your answers!

He was really a relatively junior General. He had a terrible temper and was politically inept.

He was insanely brave but had limited independent command (at least in battle).

He could have been more prominent but very very unlikely to even approach the the success Napoleon had.

A good comparator would be Kellerman who he replaced as Commander of the Army of the Alps (who had the advantage of a military heritage before the revolution). Dumas may have been made a Marshal eventually but to talk of him displacing Napoleon is a bit of wish fulfilment by writers more concerned with his skin colour than the political realities of the time.
 
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