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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.
Charles Hyacinthe Leclerc de Landremont (21 August 1739 – 26 September 1818) [1] was the commander in chief of the Rhine in 1793 during the French Revolution. [2] He was also a descendant of the painter Jean LeClerc .
Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque [b] [c] (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc .
The Saint-Domingue expedition was a large French military invasion sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, and curtail the measures of independence and abolition of slaves taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture.
Dermide Louis Napoléon Leclerc (20 April 1798 – 14 August 1804) was the only child of Pauline Bonaparte (later suo jure Duchess of Guastalla) and her first husband, French Army general Charles Leclerc. Through his mother, Dermide was a nephew of the future Emperor Napoleon I.
The French colonial army, consisting of 2,000 men led by General Charles Leclerc, blockaded the fort, which was defended by Jean-Jacques Dessalines's Haitian rebels. [1] The fort was strategically important as it controlled access to the Cahos Mountains.
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Named commanding general of the French expeditionary corps to Mexico in 1862, Forey captured Puebla and Mexico City before to leave after having established a triumvirate to govern Mexico and left his place to Bazaine. Patrice MacMahon: 1808–1893 French A brave and skilled general, distinguished himself in Algeria, the Crimean and Italy.