 Realising that he was now in command of the ship, Cumby then withdrew his men from the poop deck and into the waist of the ship, where the threat from enemy grenades was not as high.He then ordered the guns trained on the French boarding parties, which they annihilated.This enabled Cumby to board the "Aigle", at one point picking up a lit grenade to extinguish it, and capture the vessel.