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About Thomas Cumming
Thomas Cumming, known as the "Fighting Quaker," was an American merchant who built up a large commercial empire in West Africa. He is best known for the role he played in the 1758 Capture of Senegal in which he submitted a plan to the British war leader William Pitt which advocated an attack on France's valuable but ill-defended African colonies.
Everything about Thomas Cumming →- Occupation
- businessperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1701, 1714
- Died
- 1774