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CASABIANCA, See also:RAPHAEL, See also:COMTE DE (1738–1825) , See also:French See also:general, was descended from a See also:noble Corsican See also:family. Ifi 1769 he took the See also:side of See also:France against See also:Genoa, then See also:mistress of the See also:island. In 1793, having entered the service of the revolutionary See also:government, he was appointed See also:lieutenant-general in See also:Corsica in See also:place of Pascale See also:Paoli, who was outlawed for intrigues with See also:England. For his See also:defence of See also:Calvi against the See also:English he was appointed general of See also:division, and he served in See also:Italy from 1794 to 1798. After the 18th of See also:Brumaire he entered the See also:senate and was made See also:count of the See also:empire in 18o6. In 1814 he joined the party of See also:Louis XVIII., rejoined See also:Napoleon during the See also:Hundred Days, and in 1819 succeeded again in entering the chamber of peers. His See also:nephew, Louis DE CASABIANCA (1762–1798), entered the French See also:navy, served in the See also:convoy of the French troops sent to aid the revolted See also:American colonies, and took See also:part in various See also:naval actions off the See also:North American See also:coast. He became See also:captain in 1792, represented Corsica in the See also:Convention, and then received command of the Orient, which at the See also:battle of the See also:Nile See also:bore the See also:flag of See also:Admiral Brueys. When the latter was killed, Casabianca, though badly wounded, fought the burning See also:ship to the end, and perished with most of the See also:crew. His son, Giacomo Jocante, a boy of ten years of See also:age, refused to leave the ship and died in trying to See also:save his See also:father. This heroic See also:act was the subject of several poems, including the well-known ballad by Mrs. See also:Hemans.

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