Leclerc expedition to Saint-Domingue
1802–1803 · Event
Napoleon sends his brother-in-law General Leclerc with 30,000 troops to reassert French rule and restore slavery; ravaged by yellow fever.
On these timelines: Master, France
Around 1802
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)