Did generals ever get assassinated in the field?

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>>563336
Sultan Murad the First was assasinated by a wounded Serb soldier while walking in the battlefield after the battle was over.

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>>563336
KIA? Plenty. Assassinated? Well, I can remember General Vatutin who accidentally drove into positions of Ukrainian nationalist partisans with the small amount of people guarding him and promptly got killed but that thing was more of a huge accidental turn of events more than anything as neither party expected the other to be there.

>>563336

Depending on how you define "the field".

Lots of German officers were assassinated in Poland during the WW2 in retaliation for their atrocities. The most prominent was the assassination of SS general Franz Kutschera, commander of all SS units in Warsaw. Kutschera was shot dead together with his chauffeur. It was an utter shock to the Germans because Kutschera was known for extremely tight security measures. The assassination took place within the sealed-off German District, a part of Warsaw for the exclusive use of Germans. A sort of second ghetto, only this one was luxurious one. From then on, the German terror was much smaller simply because they knew they weren't safe.

To put it into perspective - killing Kutschera within the German district would be an equivalent to Iraqis killing a top US general in the middle of Green Zone in Baghdad.

Michael Collins, the main architect of Irish Military/Irish War of Independence was assassinated during the Irish Civil War. Both sides of the civil war felt miserable about it.

>>565957
What was worse was that this was within the same month Arthur Griffith (another irish leader during the WoI) and within months of the end