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.

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Examples 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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