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Massena
1[ muh-see-nuh ]
noun
- a city in N New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
Masséna
2[ ma-sey-na ]
noun
- An·dré [ah, n, -, drey], Duc de Ri·vo·li [r, ee-vaw-, lee, ree, -vaw-lee] and Prince d'Ess·ling [des, -ling], 1758–1817, French marshal under Napoleon I.
Masséna
/ masena /
noun
- MassénaAndré17581817MFrenchMILITARY: general André (ɑ̃dre), Prince d'Essling. 1758–1817, French marshal under Napoleon I: victories at Saorgio (1794), Loano (1795), Rivoli (1797), Zürich (1799), and Caldiero (1805): defeated by Wellington in the Peninsular War (1810–11)
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Masséna has sixty thousand men; we have not twenty thousand.
This morning he is holding a council of war, and I know that he has been in constant communication with Masséna.
On the 4th Masséna capitulated, and led his half-starved force out of Genoa with the honours of war.
Thence he was suddenly recalled northward to repel a fresh advance of Masséna, strongly reinforced, for the relief of Almeida.
Some generals made large fortunes, eminently so Masséna, first in plunder as in the fray.
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