Chassé, David Hendrik, Baron, a Dutch soldier; served France under Napoleon, who called him “General Baïonnette,” from his zealous use of the bayonet; fought at Waterloo on the opposite side; as governor of Antwerp, gallantly defended its citadel in 1832 against a French and Belgian force twelve times larger than his own (1765‒1849).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Chasles, Philarète * Chassepot