Melegnano, formerly MARIGNANO, a town 12 miles SE. of Milan. Pop. 5438. Here Francis I. of France defeated the Swiss in 1515, and the French routed the Austrian rear-guard in 1859.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 126
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