sentences:  As the action continued, the Captain Pierre-Paul Gourège of "Aigle" ordered his crew to board and seize "Bellerophon", hoping to use their superiority of numbers to overwhelm the British crew.Cooke sent Cumby below to make sure that the lower-deck guns continued to fire into the French ship as the battle continued overhead, and threw himself at the French sailors pouring onto "Bellerophon's" quarterdeck, shooting an enemy officer dead and engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the men behind him.Within minutes Cumby had returned to the deck with reinforcements from below, passing the mortally wounded Overton on the ladder.