Charles Leclerc (general), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French general
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Place of Birth: Pontoise, Île-de-France, France
About Charles Leclerc (general)
- Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc (17 March 1772 – 2 November 1802) was a French Army general who served under Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Revolution.
- He was husband to Pauline Bonaparte, sister to Napoleon.
- In 1801, he was sent to Saint-Domingue (Haiti), where an expeditionary force under his command captured and deported the Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, as part of an unsuccessful attempt to reassert imperial control over the Saint-Domingue government.
- Leclerc died of yellow fever during the failed expedition.
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