the line to catch up. By 4:30, the British 74-guns had overhauled Généreux and were raking her. A shot from the first broadside threw splinters into Perrée's left eye, temporarily blinding him. Remaining on deck, he called to his crew "Ce n'est rien, mes amis, continuons notre besogne" ("It is nothing, my friends, continue with your work") and gave orders for the ship to be turned, when a cannonball from the second broadside from Success tore his right leg off at the thigh. Perrée collapsed unconscious on the deck. Généreux'' continued to resist until 5:30, when, overpowered, she struck her colours. Perrée died of his wounds in the evening. On Nelson's orders, he was inhumed in Saint Lucy church in the Dominican convent of Syracuse. Notes and references Notes References Bibliography External links Jean Baptiste PERREE 1761 births 1800 deaths People from Saint-Valery-sur-Somme French Navy admirals French Republican military leaders killed in the French Revolutionary Wars French naval commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe