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3 unusual facts about Jean Baptiste Kléber


Jean Baptiste Kléber

On 13 October 1795 he fought a brilliant rearguard action at the bridge of Neuwied, and in the offensive campaign of 1796 he served as Jourdan's most active and successful lieutenant.

Shortly after these victories, a Kurdish muslim student, Soleyman El-Halaby, living in Egypt, knifed Kléber while walking in the garden of the palace of Alfi bik.

Suleiman al-Halabi

The authorities offered to lift his imprisoned father's financial burden if he would assassinate French Army General Jean Baptiste Kléber.


Henri de la Rochejaquelein

François Séverin Marceau, Jean Baptiste Kléber and François Joseph Westermann gave chase, defeating him once in Le Mans on December 12, and again, more severely, on the 23rd of December in Savenay.


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