Item #3448 [Register of the deceased of the French Army in Saint-Domingue.] État des Officiers Généraux, Aides de Camp et Adjudants Commandants Morts. Pierre François Joseph Boyer.
[Register of the deceased of the French Army in Saint-Domingue.] État des Officiers Généraux, Aides de Camp et Adjudants Commandants Morts.
Official Report on the Death of General Leclerc

[Register of the deceased of the French Army in Saint-Domingue.] État des Officiers Généraux, Aides de Camp et Adjudants Commandants Morts.

[Saint-Domingue]: 1802. Manuscript document, 1 page, written on both sides. Certified and signed by Brigadier General Pierre François Joseph Boyer (1772–1851), Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Saint-Domingue. Stamped “État Major Général de l’Armée de St. Domingue.”. Minor edge wear; overall in good condition.

Signed death report by General Boyer documenting the demise of General Leclerc and senior officers during Napoleon’s failed Saint-Domingue expedition.

Official death report issued and certified by Boyer, listing General Charles Leclerc and other high-ranking French officers who died during Napoleon’s Saint-Domingue expedition (1802–1803). The document opens with the death of General en chef Charles Leclerc—Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother-in-law and commander of the expedition—on 11 Brumaire an XI (2 November 1802). It also includes Generals Dugua, Watrin, Jabłonowski, Meyer, Tribale, and others, thirteen names in total, most of whom succumbed to yellow fever during the epidemic that severely weakened French forces.

The Saint-Domingue expedition aimed to reestablish French control over the colony and suppress the Haitian Revolution, led by figures such as Toussaint Louverture and later Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The 1802 yellow fever outbreak devastated the French army, killing over half its troops and much of its leadership. Leclerc’s death was a critical blow, accelerating the collapse of the campaign, which ended in French defeat at Vertières (18 November 1803) and the declaration of Haitian independence on 1 January 1804—the first Black republic and the only nation founded by a successful slave revolt.

Boyer, who survived the expedition, went on to a distinguished military career under both the Empire and the Bourbon Restoration, serving in Spain and attaining the rank of General of Division.

This document is a rare contemporary witness to the collapse of Napoleon’s colonial ambitions in the Caribbean.

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Price: €3,000.00

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