Victor Emmanuel Leclerc, a French general, born at Pontoise, March 17, 1772, died near Santo Domingo, Nov. 2, 1802. He enlisted in the army in 1791, and distinguished himself during the siege of Toulon and in the Italian campaigns, where he commanded the cavalry at Rivoli as brigadier general. He aided in the establishment of the consulate, for which he was made general of division and received several important commands. In 1801 Napoleon appointed him captain general of Santo Domingo, to enforce the decree for the restoration of slavery, and Leclerc reached Samana early in 1802, with his wife (Napoleon's sister Pauline), and with a large fleet and a force of more than 30,000 men. He combated the negroes with various success till May 1, when a truce was concluded, during which Toussaint l'Ouverture was sent as prisoner to France. The infuriated blacks renewed hostilities under Dessalines, while the French army was decimated by yellow fever, to which Leclerc succumbed. He was succeeded in command by Rochambeau. Pauline accompanied her husband's remains to France. Their only child died in 1804, a year after her second marriage with Prince Borghese.