Battle of Heliopolis (1800)

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The Battle of Heliopolis was an engagement that pitted the French Armée d'Orient under General Kléber against an Ottoman army, supported by British forces, at Heliopolis on 20 March 1800.

Bataille d'Héliopolis, by Leon Cogniet

Bataille d'Héliopolis, engraved by Jeune Lefevre, from a painting by Jean-Charles Langlois

Le général Kléber victorieux à Héliopolis, 20 mars 1800, by Philippe Grass. Public sculpture at Place Kléber, Strasbourg.

Jean-Baptiste Kléber

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Jean-Baptiste Kléber was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars. After serving for one year in the French Royal Army, he entered Habsburg service seven years later. However, his humble birth hindered his opportunities. Eventually, he volunteered for the French Revolutionary Army in 1792 and quickly rose through the ranks.

Portrait by Jean-Urbain Guérin, 1798 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)

Town Hall of Thann

Portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly, between 1793–1796

Kléber wounded in front of Alexandria, engraving by Adolphe-François Pannemaker