2-688-438 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Example. - Kleber at the Assault of Acre', 1799, (1896). General Kléber (1753-1800), French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. The unsuccessful siege of Acre of 1799 on the Ottoman-defended, walled city of Acre (now Akko in modern Israel) was the turning point of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria. Typogravure after the painting by L Sergent. From Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., Macmillan & Co., Limited, New York & London, 1896]