General Humbert

Humbert was born in 1767 in the Vosges and was a brigadier general by April 1794. After Ireland he fought at the Second Battle of Zurich and joined the Saint-Domingue expedition, from which he was dismissed in 1803. He emigrated to New Orleans in 1810, where he had ties to Jean Lafitte, joined a 1813 plot against New Spain and briefly fought in Argentina's war of independence in 1814. Back in Louisiana he enlisted as a private and fought at the Battle of New Orleans in a French uniform. He taught school until he died on January 3, 1823.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 0.3 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 0.5 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

More markers nearby

• Homer Adolph Plessy — steps away
• Barthélémy Lafon — steps away
• Bernard de Marigny — steps away
• Marie Laveau — steps away