Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe (February 20, 1728 – 1792) was Governor General of Réunion, Haiti and Pondichéry. According to most accounts he was born in 1728 in France. Bellecombe engaged to Royal Roussillon and took part in French military expeditions overseas of the 2nd part of the 18th century. He had his last battles in New France (1755-1760) and a surprise expedition at St Jean, Newfoundland in 1762.

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  • Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe (February 20, 1728 – 1792) was Governor General of Réunion, Haiti and Pondichéry. According to most accounts he was born in 1728 in France. Bellecombe engaged to Royal Roussillon and took part in French military expeditions overseas of the 2nd part of the 18th century. He had his last battles in New France (1755-1760) and a surprise expedition at St Jean, Newfoundland in 1762. He opposed the English everywhere, whether on the seas, or in the American continent, or in the Indies. He was Governor of St Domingue at the end of his career (1781-1785), where he saw the slave traders unloading their “goods”. He helped start the revolution of the slaves which broke out soon in 1791. This event led to the creation of the Republic of Haiti in 1804. Bellecombe retired to France in 1792 and died in the same year putting an end to his life of adventures.
  • Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe était un militaire et administrateur colonial français. Né le 22 février 1728 au lieu-dit de Bellecombe, dans la commune de Perville, fils de Pierre Léonard, marchand protestant et d'Anne de Marabal, il a cinq frères et soeurs. Il avait épousé en 1776 à Bordeaux Angélique de Gallaup (1748-), fille de Louis et de Marguerite Baratet, dont il n'a pas eu d'enfants. Décédé le 28 février 1792, à Montauban.
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  • February 2009
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  • Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe (February 20, 1728 – 1792) was Governor General of Réunion, Haiti and Pondichéry. According to most accounts he was born in 1728 in France. Bellecombe engaged to Royal Roussillon and took part in French military expeditions overseas of the 2nd part of the 18th century. He had his last battles in New France (1755-1760) and a surprise expedition at St Jean, Newfoundland in 1762.
  • Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe était un militaire et administrateur colonial français. Né le 22 février 1728 au lieu-dit de Bellecombe, dans la commune de Perville, fils de Pierre Léonard, marchand protestant et d'Anne de Marabal, il a cinq frères et soeurs. Il avait épousé en 1776 à Bordeaux Angélique de Gallaup (1748-), fille de Louis et de Marguerite Baratet, dont il n'a pas eu d'enfants. Décédé le 28 février 1792, à Montauban.
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  • Guillaume de Bellecombe
  • Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe
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