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(1755?–98), French naval officer, born in Bastia, Corsica. He fought against the British in the American Revolution, serving under the French admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse, at the siege of Yorktown, Va. In 1792 he was a member of the National Convention in France. He commanded the Orient, flagship of the fleet that transported Napoleon Bonaparte and his army to Egypt in 1798. In the Battle of the Nile, the commander of the fleet, Vice Admiral François Paul Brueys d'Aigailliers (1753–98), was killed, and Casabianca assumed command. Although he was wounded and the Orient was in flames, he stayed at his post. His son, ten years old, refused to leave him and both were lost with the vessel. The story of their death is recounted in the poem Casabianca (1829) by the British poet Felicia Hemans (1739–1835).
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