K is for ....

Karl Matthew Kafka.

We visited the Moravian cemetery known as God's Acre today and I came across this grave marker of one of Napoleon Bonaparte's loyal soldiers.

Karl Kafka felt the deadly heat of Egypt's sun as a part of young Napoleon's ill-fated 1798 expedition to that exotic and distant land. He knew the bite of Russia's cold as he followed the imperial drive for conquest into the debacle of 1812. Kafka, born in 1770, was a native of Dresden, the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony, a state of the Holy Roman Empire. Kafka was a shoemaker. It is not clear when he came to Bethlehem, but after he arrived he married a widow and he died in 1857.