Kléber, Jean-Baptiste

Kléber, Jean-Baptiste

▪ French general

born March 9, 1753, Strasbourg, France
died June 14, 1800, Cairo, Egypt
 French general of the Revolutionary wars who suppressed the counterrevolutionary uprising in the Vendée area of western France in 1793. He later played a prominent role in Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign (1798–1800).

      The son of a mason, Kléber was an officer in the Austrian army from 1776 to 1782. He was an architect for a time in Paris, and, in July 1789, shortly after the outbreak of the Revolution, he joined the national guard. France went to war with Austria and Prussia in 1792, and from April to July 1793 Lieutenant Colonel Kléber ably defended Mainz from Austrian besiegers. As a result, he was made a general in August 1793 and assigned to crush the royalist-led Roman Catholic insurgents of the Vendée. On October 17, he severely defeated the Vendéans at Cholet. He later destroyed the rebel army in two battles—at Le Mans on December 13 and at Savenay 10 days later.

      Sent north to join Jean-Baptiste Jourdan's Army of the Moselle in April 1794, Kléber distinguished himself in the Battle of Fleurus (June 26), a key victory in the French conquest of Belgium.

      In April 1798 Kléber was made commander of a division in the forces assembled by Napoleon Bonaparte for the invasion of Egypt. After the French landed at Alexandria on July 1–2, Kléber was wounded in the ensuing battle. He remained in Alexandria as governor for several months, but on April 16, 1799, he defeated the Turks at Mount Tabor. On Napoleon's departure for France in August 1799, Kléber was left in command of the expeditionary forces. In January 1800 he signed a convention with a British admiral by which the French were to evacuate their troops from Egypt. When the British government refused to recognize the agreement, Kléber reopened hostilities, defeating a Turkish army at Heliopolis (near Cairo) on March 20 and recapturing Cairo on April 21. He had begun to govern Egypt when he was assassinated by a fanatic in June.

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