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OKay so I first heard of this fight a while ago and on that web page the Captain of the Yarmouth admitted that he was close to striking his colors when the American frigate disintegrated.
So WI the Randolph had prevailed? In the War of 1812 the losses to American frigates enraged the British pblic what would be the reaction to the loss of a ship of the line to a frigate in single combat?