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[KLEBER & DAMAS]: [KLEBER JEAN-BAPTISTE] - [KLEBER & DAMAS]: [KLEBER JEAN-BAPTISTE] (1753-1800) French General during the French Revolutionary Wars & [DAMAS FRANCOIS-ETIENNE DE] (1764-1828) French General who served as chef d'etat-major under Jean-Baptiste Kleber. Printed Document issued in the names of Kleber and Damas and signed by the adjutant general Rene, two pages, folio, Headquarters, Cairo, 2 nd June 1800, in French. The document is an Ordre du jour in which Kleber confirms that the paymaster general will pay the whole army for pluviose an 8 (February 1800), further stating that the surgeons of the armed corps will send all soldiers affected by serious injuries to the nearest military hospitals as soon as possible, although 'Ceux affectes seulement de gonorrhee ou de gale simple, d'ophtalmie legere, ou de toute autre indisposition ephemere, seront traités sous la tente ou dans les casernes' (Translation: 'Those affected only with gonorrhoea or simple scabies, mild ophthalmia, or any other ephemeral indisposition, will be treated in tents or in the barracks' ) also issuing guidance for the expense of treatment and supervision of medicines and dressing apparatus, and continuing 'Les demi-brigades qui sont au Kaire fourniront chacune huit ouvriers, macons, charpentiers ou menuisiers, pour les travaux du genie, y compris ceux que ces corps y ont deja donne: ces hommes.... seront inscrits chez le chef de brigade Bertrand, directeur des fortifications du genie, qui en enverra l'etat nominatif au chef de l'Etat-major general' (Translation: 'The demi-brigades which are in Cairo will each provide eight workmen, masons, carpenters or joiners, for the work of the engineers, including those which these corps have already given there: these men…..will be registered with the chief of brigade Bertrand, Director of Engineering Fortifications, who will send the list of names to the Chief of the General Staff' ). The document concludes with an instruction to arrest a deserter, 'Les generaux commandant les divisions, et les commandans de place feront arreter et conduire au 4me regiment d'artillerie a pied le nomme Pierre Renault, canonnier de 2me classe, deserte le 7 prairial' (Translation: 'The generals commanding the divisions, and the local commanders, will have Pierre Renault, 2 nd class gunner, deserted on 7 Prairial, arrested and taken to the 4 th foot artillery regiment' ), and provides a brief description of the individual, 'Pierre Renault.....natif de Landrecy, department du Nord, age de vingt-huit ans, taille de cinq pieds un pouce, cheveux et sourcils chatains, yeux gris, nez long, bouche grande, menton rond, visage plein' (Translation: 'Pierre Renault…..native of Landrecy, department of the North, twenty-eight years old, five feet one inch tall, brown hair and eyebrows, grey eyes, long nose, wide mouth, round chin, full face' ). Some light staining and minor age wear to the edges, otherwise VG   The present document was issued just less than two weeks before Kleber’s assassination in Cairo on 14 th June 1800.