Assassination of Kléber in Cairo, 1800 (Épinal imagery, Large easy constructions, no. 85)

Kléber, was given supreme command of the Egyptian army by Napoleon on August 22, 1799. The French army, defeated by the English, was due to evacuate Egypt, but Admiral Keith broke the terms of the treaty and asked the French to take themselves prisoner. The war resumed and Kléber regained control of the country. Not without exactions...

He was assassinated by a Kurdish student, Soleyman el-Halaby, with a stab wound to the heart on June 14, 1800, as he was finishing lunch with General François-Étienne Damas, his Chief of Staff and "most intimate friend", as well as the other generals present in Cairo.

The game consists of reconstructing the assassination scene, based on a model drawn in the vignette on the left. The figures to be cut out are Kléber at the very top, holding a document, General Damas, on the left, with moustaches, the student assassin below slightly further to the right, and a poster guard at the back of the room, in front of the terrace.

The murder scene is therefore empty, up to the player to fill it in...