Word: casabianca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
When the Germans invaded Paris, Ambassador William C. Bullitt decided to carry on in Casabianca tradition and stay...
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