Divisional-General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc 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
Portrait by François Kinson, 1804
French sailors drowning Black prisoners under Leclerc's orders
Statue of Leclerc in Pontoise
Toussaint Louverture
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François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda, was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louvert
Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772)
…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…
1813 portrait
Apocryphal print of Toussaint reading Abbé Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes before the revolution (1853)
Louverture, as depicted in an 1802 French engraving
Louverture surveying his troops