Kléber, Jean Baptiste, French general, born at Strasburg; originally an architect, served with distinction in the Revolutionary army, accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt, and was left by him in command, where, after a bold attempt to regain lost ground and while in the act of concluding a treaty with the Turks, he was assassinated by an Arab fanatic (1753‒1800).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Klausthal * Kleist, Heinrich von