When Kléber discovered that Napoleon – whom he took to calling ‘that Corsican runt’ – had left Egypt, the plain-speaking Alsatian told his staff: ‘That bugger has deserted us with his breeches full of shit. When we get back to Europe we’ll rub his face in it.’
That pleasure was denied him, for in June 1800 a twenty-four-year-old student named Soliman stabbed him to death.
On a more grisly note from the author:
(Soliman was executed with a pike driven into his rectum up to his breast.)
Source:
Roberts, Andrew. "Acre." Napoleon: A Life. New York: Penguin, 2014. 201. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Strathearn, Napoleon in Egypt pp. 413-14.
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