Portrait of General Kleber

Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753–1800) was a French general who distinguished himself during the French Revolutionary Wars, notably in the War in the Vendée and the Egyptian Campaign, where he won a victory at Heliopolis against 45,000 Turks supported by the British.
Provoked by the British, he had shouted to his troops: ‘Such insolence can only be answered with victories; soldiers, prepare to fight’.
He then conquered Upper Egypt and, with French artillery, quelled a revolt in Cairo. But he was assassinated whilst having lunch by a Kurdish student named Soleyman el-Halaby, who stabbed him in the heart on 14 June 1800 in Cairo.