Jean-Baptiste Kléber
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Divisional-General Jean-Baptiste Kléber was a French army officer and architect who served in the War of the Bavarian Succession and French Revolutionary Wars. After serving for one year in the French
Portrait by Jean-Urbain Guérin, 1798
The Hôtel de Ville, Thann, which Kléber designed
1793–1796 portrait of Kléber by Louis-Léopold Boilly
A wounded Kléber during the capture of Alexandria on 3 July 1798
Suleiman al-Halabi
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Suleiman al-Halabi was a Syrian theology student best known for assassinating Jean-Baptiste Kléber, then serving as the commander of the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, in 1800. Born in the villag
Jean-Baptiste Kléber
…started to suffer setbacks, Napoleon returned to Paris in 1799 and appointed Kléber as commander of all French forces in Egypt. He was assassinated by Suleiman al-Halabi, a Syrian theology student, in Cairo in 1800. Kléber, in times of peace, designed a number of buildings. Jean-Baptiste Kléber was born on 9 March 1753…
"Souleymân-El Haleby, assassin de Kléber", 1836, by André Dutertre.
French artist's impression of al-Halabi killing Kléber, by Antoine-Jean Gros.
The records of al-Halabi's trial
Al-Halabi's dagger on display at the Carcassonne Museum of Fine Arts.