Exact French casualties are difficult to calculate,…
January 1797 CE
However, a French source suggests that up to another five hundred of the crew are rescued from the wreck by the corvette Arrogante and the cutter Aiguille on January 17 and 18.
This would give a toll of only about four hundred.
A menhir at Plozévet, with an inscription carved in 1840 gives a death toll of six hundred.
Amazon lost three in the battle and six in her wreck, with fifteen wounded, while Indefatigable had not lose a single man killed, suffering only eighteen wounded.
The discrepancy in losses during the action is likely due to the extreme difficulty the French crew had in aiming their guns given their ship's instability in heavy seas.
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