André Masséna, 1st Duke of Rivoli, was a French military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon I, with the nickname l’Enfant chéri de la Victoire. His military career is equaled by few commanders in European history.
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André Masséna, 1st Duke of Rivoli, was a French military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon I, with the nickname l’Enfant chéri de la Victoire. He rose from humble origins to such prominence that Napoleon referred to him as \”the greatest name of my military empire. \” His military career is equaled by few commanders in European history. He played a decisive role in the battle of Montenotte and Dego in the spring of 1796, and took a leading role at the battles of Lonato, Castiglione, Bassano, Caldiero and Arcola in the summer and fall. In the space of five days, his division played a major role in an operation that left over 35,000 Austrian soldiers either dead or captured. With his final victory, he praised the president of France with the name l’ enfant de la victoire de la légion d’honneur, which means the son of the victor of the Victoire de l’enfant, or the head of the victorious Victoire of the Légions d’Honneur. He died in 1815 at the age of 83. He is buried in the town of Essling, in the province of Liguria, in southern France, on the island of Corsica, where he was born in 1758.
He had a son, André, who became the first French prince to be born in a French colony. He also had a daughter, Anne Marie Rosalie Lamare, who was married to a surgeon in Antibes, France. He served in the French Army as a private in the Royal Italian Regiment. In 1791, he rejoined the army and was made an officer, rising to the rank of colonel by 1792. He became prominent in every campaign on the Italian Riviera over the next two years, including the attack on Saorgio in 1794 and the Battle of Loano in 1795. During the campaign in Italy from 1796-1797, he became one of Bonaparte’s most important subordinates. A majority of the French marshal of the time served under his command at some point. He led his troops to intercept a second Austrian army advancing to relieve Mantua and close the pincer on La Favorita on the Austrian army, forcing their surrender two weeks later. He married Anne Marie Lamare on 10 August 1793, and lived with her in her hometown. He went on to become one of France’s most successful military commanders, leading the French Armée d’Italie until his death in 1814.
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