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Jacques François Dugommier
1738Aug, 1

Jacques François Dugommier

Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
Jacques François Coquille named Dugommier (1 August 1738, Trois-Rivières, Guadeloupe – 18 November 1794, at the Battle of the Black Mountain) was a French general.

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