 The captured crew were distributed among the French squadron and as a result Bligh was unable to make a full casualty list.He later estimated losses of approximately 40 men killed or wounded aboard "Alexander", although French accounts give 28 killed and 30 wounded.British histories reported French casualties in the engagement as the enormous figure of 450 men killed and wounded, although as French historian Charles Rouvier noted in 1868, this is an absurdly inflated total