The assassination of General Kléber in Egypt: Kléber is stabbed in the chest by a man in oriental dress outside his tent. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.

  • Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.
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14 June 1815
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42867i
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Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), a French general of the Revolutionary wars, suppressed the counterrevolutionary uprising in the Vendée area in 1793 and later had a prominent role in Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1800). He had begun to govern Egypt when he was assassinated in June 1800

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[Place of publication not identified] : T. Kinnersley, 14 June 1815.

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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 17 x 11.8 cm

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Assassination of General Kleber in Egypt. W.M. Craig del. T. Wallis sculp.

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Wellcome Collection 42867i

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