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Charles Leclerc

1772 - 1802

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Divisional-General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc (17 March 1772 – 2 November 1802) was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. He was the husband of Pauline Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon. In 1801, Leclerc was appointed commander of the Saint-Domingue expedition with the goal of restoring French rule and slavery in the colony of Saint-Domingue and deposing Governor-General Toussaint Louverture. The expedition defeated Louverture's army and deported him to France, but Leclerc died of yellow fever after the colony's Black population revolted against French rule. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Leclerc is the 483rd most popular military personnel (up from 1,792nd in 2019), the 1,346th most popular biography from France (up from 4,422nd in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles Leclerc ranks 483 out of 2,058. Before him are Josef Harpe, Gan Ning, Yamagata Aritomo, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Lazare Hoche, and Matthäus Hetzenauer. After him are Hugh Thompson Jr., Herbert Gille, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Bronislav Kaminski, Robert Anderson, and Karl von Bülow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Charles Leclerc ranks 14. Before him are Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Nachman of Breslov, and Tarrare. After him are Marie Anne Lenormand, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, William Wirt, and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1802, Charles Leclerc ranks 7. Before him are Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, Erasmus Darwin, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Clotilde of France, and Martha Washington. After him are Ludovico Manin, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Alexander Radishchev, Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Franz Aepinus, and Jens Juel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Leclerc ranks 1,346 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (1543), Michel Butor (1926), Thomas, Count of Savoy (1178), Élie Cartan (1869), Lazare Hoche (1768), and Jean-Claude Killy (1943). After him are Theobald II of Navarre (1239), Pierre Bouguer (1698), Michel Adanson (1727), Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse (1678), Monique Wittig (1935), and Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1580).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Charles Leclerc ranks 56. Before him are Tarrare (1772), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg (1628), Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (1393), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), and Lazare Hoche (1768). After him are Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (1742), Oenomaus (-105), Aegidius (450), Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476), Georges Picquart (1854), and Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754).

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