Charles Leclerc | |
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![]() Portrait by François-Joseph Kinson, 1804 | |
Born | 17 March 1772 Pontoise, Île-de-France |
Died | 2 November 1802 Tortuga, Saint-Domingue | (aged 30)
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Service/ | French Royal Army French Revolutionary Army |
Years of service | 1791–1802 |
Rank | Divisional-General |
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Divisional-General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc (17 March 1772 – 2 November 1802) was a French Army officer who served during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was the husband of Pauline Bonaparte, the sister of Napoleon. In 1801, Leclerc was sent to Saint-Domingue, where invasion forces under his command captured and deported Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture to France as part of an unsuccessful attempt to reassert French control over Saint-Domingue and reinstate slavery in the colony. Leclerc died of yellow fever during the campaign.