Casabianca

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• Casabianca is a poem written in the early 19th century by British poet Felicia Hemans about Luc Casabianca
• Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, a French Navy officer who was lost with his ship, L'Orient in Abukir. Also lost was his 12-year old son.
• Raphaël, Comte de Casabianca, French general was the uncle of the above.
• Casabianca is a commune of the Haute-Corse département in France, on the island of Corsica.
• A number of vessels of the French Navy:
  • The Casabianca, the famous submarine which joined the Free French Forces during the Second World War, notably liberating Corsica.
  • The Casabianca, a contemporary nuclear attack submarine