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Savary, Joseph  

Marcus B. Christian

Joseph Savary was the close associate of whites and generally referred to as a mulatto Creole of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). The names of his parents can only be conjectured. Since he was believed to have been the brother of Belton Savary, another hero of the Battle of New Orleans, in Louisiana, he was probably the son of Charles Savary and Charlotte Lajoie. Savary was an officer in the Santo Domingan army under the French government and rendered outstanding services to the whites during the 1791 slave uprising. He and his family were among the whites, free people of color, and slaves who fled their native land and finally landed in New Orleans in 1809. When he reached the United States, he brought with him a reputation as an able officer and a man of great courage.

In the meager accounts concerning Savary ...

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Taddese Birru  

Mohammed Hassen Ali

Ethiopian military officer of Oromo origin, was born in Salale, Shewa province, to a deeply religious family. He received Ethiopian Orthodox Church education. His father, Birru, was killed by poison gas while fighting against the invading Italian forces in 1935. Heartbroken, Taddese’s mother died just three months after her husband’s death.

Taddese joined his uncle, Beka, who was one of the resistance leaders in Shewa province. Taddese was captured together with many others by the Italian forces and was sentenced for the first time to life imprisonment with hard labor in Mogadisho. The outbreak of World War II shortened Taddese’s misery and changed the course of his life. When the British captured Mogadisho in 1940, Taddese was freed and recruited into the British forces. He was given military training in Kenya and returned to Ethiopia in 1941. In 1942 Taddese was promoted to the rank of ...