See also:COMTE DE See also:RAPHAEL See also:CASABIANCA (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
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
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 See also: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 (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
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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