In her approach she nailed her white colours to the mast and a sergeant of the Auxerrois regiment tied his halberd and bravely stood at the head of the ship waving it.

When shot in his right arm, he deftly caught the halberd in his left hand and continued to wave.

[3] Following the battle, despite the attempts of Denis Decrès aboard Richemont (previously a British ship) to give tow to the stricken vessel, she was captured.

She sailed with the fleet for England on 25 July 1782 but was lost later that year in the 1782 Central Atlantic hurricane off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on 16–17 September, along with the French prize Ville de Paris.

Heller SA has created a 1:150 scale model of Le Glorieux in its French guise.