Massena

[ muh-see-nuh ]

/ məˈsi nə /

noun

a city in N New York, on the St. Lawrence River.

Definition for massena (2 of 2)

Masséna

[ ma-sey-na ]

/ ma seɪˈna /

noun

An·dré

[ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/, Duc de Ri·vo·li

[French ree-vaw-lee; Italian ree-vaw-lee] /French ri vɔˈli; Italian ˈri vɔ li/and Prince d'Ess·ling

[des-ling] /ˈdɛs lɪŋ/,1758–1817, French marshal under Napoleon I.

Example sentences from the Web for massena

The French, under Massena, had in 1799 been twice repulsed from Feldkirch with great loss.

The Valleys of Tirol |R. H. Busk
Let us hear it, then—you mean Pichegru, perhaps, or Massena?

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. |Various
Marshal Massena had entered Portugal with an army of seventy-five thousand men.

Joseph Bonaparte |John S. C. Abbott
Massena made some dispositions, which have been very successful.

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine |Henry Foljambe Hall

Soult advanced in this direction to open up communications with Massena, who was massed with his regiments on the Tagus.

With Wellington in Spain |F. S. Brereton

British Dictionary definitions for massena

Masséna

/ (French masena) /

noun

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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