Charles Leclerc
Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc d' Ostin ( born March 17, 1772 in Pontoise, † November 2, 1802 Cap-Haïtien on Tortuga ) was a French general.
Life
Leclerc d' Ostin joined with 18 years in the Army and was elected in 1792 by a battalion of volunteers to lieutenant in the revolutionary army. In 1793 he was commander of a battalion. He was involved in the Battle of Fleurus (1794 ) and accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796 on his expedition to Italy.
In 1797 Leclerc d' Ostin brigadier general and in 1798 he was during the expedition to Rome 's chief of staff at Berthier, later in the same capacity at Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine. Finally, he was appointed Governor of Lyon.
When Napoleon's coup d'etat on 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799) made Leclerc d' Ostin important services by the resolution of the Council of Five Hundred. For this he was promoted to major general and was allowed to Napoleon's sister, Pauline Bonaparte married. In 1800 he commanded the 2nd Division under Moreau at the Rhine Army and participated in the December 3, 1800 at the Battle of Hohenlinden part.
In 1802 he was charged by Napoleon's invading army to Saint -Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, there to disempower the black General Toussaint Louverture and re-establish slavery. The company was initially crowned with success and Louverture was captured and deported to France. The fighting continued, however, and in the unfamiliar climate were the French soldiers in great numbers to the yellow fever victim, so that the company ultimately failed. Leclerc d' Ostin not live to see the final defeat. He died on November 2, 1802, before the end of the fighting on the offshore island of Hispaniola, Tortuga to yellow fever.
His successor in the upper incorrect, the Vicomte de Rochambeau surrendered a year later for the lost on November 18, 1803 Battle of vertieres against the black General Jean -Jacques Dessalines. As a result, Haiti gained independence and was France finally lost.
Honors
His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 34th column ( LECLERC ).