Casabianca

Casabianca, LOUIS, a French naval officer, born at Bastia about 1755, sat in the National Convention of 1792, and in 1798 was captain of the flagship L'Orient in the expedition to Egypt. He was mortally wounded at the battle of the Nile, August 1, 1798; the ship caught fire; his ten-year-old son would not leave him, and both (contrary to Mrs Hemans's version of the story) were floating on the wreck of the ship's mast when the final explosion took place.