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Jean-Baptiste Kléber

1753–1800 · 18th century

Jean-Baptiste Kléber was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars from Strasbourg. He fought in the Vendée and on the Rhine, accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt, and was left in command when Bonaparte returned to France in 1799. After defeating an Ottoman army at Heliopolis in March 1800 and retaking Cairo, he was assassinated there in June 1800 by a Syrian student, Sulayman al-Halabi.

Jean-Baptiste Kléber
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French occupation of Egypt

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