Battle of Caldiero (1796)
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In the Battle of Caldiero on 12 November 1796, the Habsburg army led by József Alvinczi fought a First French Republic army commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte. The French assaulted the Austrian positions
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André Masséna
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André Masséna, prince d'Essling, duc de Rivoli, was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire cre
Battle of Caldiero (1796)
…driving back the outnumbered French forces in front of them. When the main army reached a position threatening Verona, Bonaparte ordered the divisions of André Masséna and Pierre Augereau to attack. Sturdy Austrian resistance and bad weather contributed to the French defeat. Bonaparte soon embarked upon a new strategy…
Portrait of Masséna made c. 1853 after an 1804 original by Antoine-Jean Gros
Commemorative bas-relief at Masséna's childhood home in Levens, Alpes-Maritimes, installed on the bicentenary of his birth in 1958.
André Masséna as lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Var Battalion in 1792. Portrait by Ferdinand Wachsmuth, 1834.
Masséna as a general of the French Revolutionary Army, 1796