He kept calling out his commands while in the cockpit to fight harder and to keep the guns going.

His last words, often repeated in his delirium, were "_Don't give up the ship!_" and they formed the motto of the American navy for many years afterward.
[Illustration: THE OFFICERS OF THE "CHESAPEAKE" OFFERING THEIR SWORDS.] In the wild, savage fighting, where everything was so mixed that an American lieutenant joined the British boarders under the impression that they were his own men, Captain Broke was fearfully wounded, though he afterward recovered.

The _Chesapeake_, with a loss of 47 killed and 99 wounded to 24 killed and 59 wounded of the enemy, became the prize of the _Shannon_..