MILITARY PERSONNEL

Charles Leclerc

1772 - 1802

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Divisional-General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl viktwaʁ emanɥɛl ləklɛʁ]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Leclerc has received more than 12,422,257 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Charles Leclerc is the 1,792nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,545th in 2019), the 4,422nd most popular biography from France (down from 4,260th in 2019) and the 147th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles Leclerc ranks 1,792 out of 2,058. Before him are George W. Casey Jr., Mizuno Tadakuni, Harold Rainsford Stark, András Toma, Myronides, and Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. After him are Peter Pace, Józef Kowalski, Dietrich Kraiss, Walter Krueger, Franz von Werra, and John Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Charles Leclerc ranks 41. Before him are Martha Jefferson Randolph, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Vicente López Portaña, Frans Michael Franzén, Manuel José Quintana, and Paul Louis Courier. After him are William H. Crawford, Sándor Kisfaludy, Caesar Augustus Rodney, William Wirt, and Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill. Among people deceased in 1802, Charles Leclerc ranks 28. Before him are Daniel Morgan, Thomas Girtin, Joseph Ducreux, Ivan Argunov, Leopold I, Prince of Lippe, and Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes. After him are Corona Schröter, Samuel Arnold, Ivan Lepyokhin, and Francis Lewis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Leclerc ranks 4,422 out of 6,770. Before him are Anne-Marie Colchen (1925), Jean-Claude Gaudin (1939), Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), Constance of Normandy (null), Antoine de Caunes (1953), and Adil Rami (1985). After him are Tahar Rahim (1981), Eleanor of Normandy (1010), Jean Stern (1875), Hélène Prévost (1900), Jacques Weber (1949), and Georges Bereta (1946).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Charles Leclerc ranks 147. Before him are Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (1889), François Perrier (1833), Gaston Billotte (1875), Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863), Fernand de Langle de Cary (1849), and François Fournier-Sarlovèze (1773). After him are Anton Grasser (1891), Billy Mitchell (1879), Pierre Bosquet (1810), Benjamin Bonneville (1796), Odette Hallowes (1912), and Arnaud Beltrame (1973).

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