Casabianca

ka-sa-be-an'ka, Louis, a French naval officer. He was captain of the flagship L'Orient in the battle of the Nile, August 1, 1798. He was mortally wounded and his ship caught fire, but his little nine year old son would not leave the ship without a permission that his dying father could not give. The ship exploded and both were lost. Mrs. Hemans has celebrated the bravery and obedience of the little fellow in a well known poem beginning,