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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Charles Leclerc

1772 - 1802

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Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl viktwaʁ emanɥɛl ləklɛʁ]; 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 invasion force under his command captured and deported the Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture, as part of an unsuccessful attempt to reassert imperial control over Saint-Domingue and reinstate slavery on the local population. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Leclerc has received more than 10,243,704 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Charles Leclerc is the 1,548th most popular military personnel (down from 1,359th in 2019), the 4,277th most popular biography from France (down from 3,805th in 2019) and the 136th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles Leclerc ranks 1,548 out of 1,468Before him are Lloyd Fredendall, Hudson Austin, Stanley Maude, James Stockdale, Jacob L. Devers, and Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley. After him are Rufina Gasheva, John F. Reynolds, Michael Mullen, George W. Casey Jr., Issam Zahreddine, and Reginald Dyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Charles Leclerc ranks 40Before him are Friedrich Gilly, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Frans Michael Franzén, Manuel José Quintana, Martha Jefferson Randolph, and Paul Louis Courier. After him are William H. Crawford, William Wirt, Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, and Caesar Augustus Rodney. Among people deceased in 1802, Charles Leclerc ranks 28Before him are Leopold I, Prince of Lippe, Thomas Girtin, Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Ivan Argunov, Corona Schröter, and August Batsch. After him are Samuel Arnold, Daniel Morgan, and Ivan Lepyokhin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Leclerc ranks 4,277 out of 6,011Before him are Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801), Steven Nzonzi (1988), Michel Giacobini (1873), Maryse Bastié (1898), Nathalie Cardone (1967), and Gilles Kepel (1955). After him are Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (1589), Michel Pécheux (1911), Augustin Chantrel (1906), Jean-Baptiste Mimiague (1871), Henri Louveau (1910), and William de Longchamp (1101).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Charles Leclerc ranks 136Before him are François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671), Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863), François Fournier-Sarlovèze (1773), Gaston Billotte (1875), Billy Mitchell (1879), and Fernand de Langle de Cary (1849). After him are Arnaud Beltrame (1973).