 The battle is probably the engagement with the "Droits de l'Homme".Captain Reynolds commanded the frigate "Amazon" in the Action of 13 January 1797 when, in company with HMS "Indefatigable", the frigates engaged and drove ashore the much larger French ship of the line "Droits de l'Homme".In the heavy storm in which the battle was fought, "Amazon" became unmanageable and was also wrecked, although the frigate was beached and all but six of her men survived, unlike her larger opponent which was run onto a sandbar and destroyed with hundreds of lives lost.