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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jean-Baptiste Kléber

1753 - 1800

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Jean-Baptiste Kléber (IPA: [ʒɑ̃ batist klebɛʁ]) (9 March 1753 – 14 June 1800) was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars. After serving for one year in the French Royal Army, he entered Habsburg service seven years later. However, his humble birth hindered his opportunities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Kléber has received more than 290,519 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Kléber is the 241st most popular military personnel (up from 253rd in 2019), the 684th most popular biography from France (up from 738th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Military Personnel.

Jean-Baptiste Kléber is most famous for his military leadership in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was a general in the French Revolutionary Army who commanded the French forces in several battles. He was killed in action during the Battle of the Pyramids in Egypt.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jean-Baptiste Kléber ranks 241 out of 1,468. Before him are Gaius Claudius Glaber, Vasily Stalin, Sejanus, John Demjanjuk, Tōgō Heihachirō, and Kurt Meyer. After him are Erich Hoepner, Hans von Seeckt, Muhammad bin Qasim, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Maurice Gamelin, and Werner Mölders.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Jean-Baptiste Kléber ranks 5. Before him are Utamaro, Joseph de Maistre, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, and Lazare Carnot. After him are Benjamin Thompson, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, and Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1800, Jean-Baptiste Kléber ranks 3. Before him are Jeongjo of Joseon and Alexander Suvorov. After him are Louis Desaix, Niccolò Piccinni, Adélaïde of France, Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Peter von Biron, Salawat Yulayev, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Jean-Antoine Marbot, and George XII of Georgia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Kléber ranks 684 out of 6,011. Before him are Hans Bethe (1906), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), Chlodomer (495), Édouard Lalo (1823), and Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805). After him are Nicole Oresme (1323), Nicolas Fouquet (1615), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Richard II, Duke of Normandy (963), François-André Danican Philidor (1726), and Mary of Guise (1515).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Jean-Baptiste Kléber ranks 25. Before him are Syagrius (430), Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611). After him are Maurice Gamelin (1872), Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Oenomaus (-105), Nicolas Oudinot (1767), Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763), and Robert Nivelle (1856).

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