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...came on the fleet of 15 Frenchmen at anchor. Moving down both sides of the badly arranged enemy, the British overcame one vessel at a time> Only two escaped. The French flagship Orient took fire and blew up-and with it died the flag captain's son, Giacomo Casabianca, whose willful refusal to get away with the crew won him a sort of immortality as Felicia Dorothea Hemans' Boy on the Burning Deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Battle of the Mediterranean | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

When the Germans invaded Paris, Ambassador William C. Bullitt decided to carry on in Casabianca tradition and stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Leg-Men | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Baltimore last week Harry Allen Overstreet, head of the Philosophy Department at the College of the City of New York, iconoclastically told a Child Study Association meeting that Casabianca, the 13-year-old boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, was a "moron without sense enough to respond to a new situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Skeptics | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...modern Casabianca, - our efficient and ever-punctual janitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

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