In the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, in Salamanca, Spain, the French Marshal Michel Ney took the fortified city from Field Marshal Andrés Pérez de Herrasti on 10 July 1810 after a siege that began on 26 Ap
Torre del Homenaje del Castillo de Enrique II from the Plaza del Castillo, with a 1507 barrier in the foreground
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
Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810)
…Marshal Andrés Pérez de Herrasti on 10 July 1810 after a siege that began on 26 April. Ney's VI Corps made up part of a 65,000-strong army commanded by André Masséna, who was bent on a third French invasion of Portugal. The Third Portuguese campaign started with the construction of the Lines of Torres Vedras and the…
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