Soleyman

Soleyman el-Halaby (or Soliman ) was a Syria N described as Moslem fanatic having assassinated the general Kléber at the time of the Campagne of Egypt the June 14th 1800.

Because of this act, the council of war condemns it to death, like its accomplices, with execution the day of funerals of Kléber (June 17th). The accomplices are made slice the head with the Cimeterre before being impaled under the eyes of Soleyman. This one is condemned to the torment of the stake, of which the execution is described in these terms by Claude Desprez, witness of the facts:

the man was condemned, by the council of French war, to have the fists flarings then to be impaled sharp. The Barthèlemy torturer slept on the Soliman belly, drew a knife from his pocket, made him with the base a broad incision, approached some the end of its stake and inserted it with blows of mallet. Then it bound the arms and the legs of the patient, raised it in the air and fixed the stake in a prepared hole. Soliman still lived during four hours, and it had lived more if, during the absence of Barthelemy a soldier had not given him to drink: at the moment even it expired.

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