Henri Louis La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein (23 September 1772 Schwedt/Oder, Uckermark

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, Brandenburg

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, Prussia

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 - 23 April 1839 Albany, New York

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) was a soldier in France

France

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 and South America

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, and an author in the United States

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.

Biography

Decoudray Holstein was a officer in the French army under Napoleon

Napoleon I

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, and, after being arrested by the latter, fled to America, where he served under Gen. Simon Bolivar

Simón Bolívar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Yeiter, commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader...

, but, removing to the United States afterward, settled in Albany, New York, where he became a teacher of languages in the academy, and edited The Zodiac.

Family

He married Maria del Carmen (c. 1800 Colombia

Colombia

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 - 1 May 1855 Albany, New York

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); they had son Lafayette Ducoudray Holstein (1 August 1826 New York - 7 April 1864).

External links

• Spanish version of Memoirs of Simon Bolivar, ISBN 978-958-44612-4-7