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During Napoleonic naval battles why would captains burn down their ships rather than surrendering?
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It was very expensive even then to build a warship - by capturing an enemy vessel intact, it could be re-flagged and used against the original country that sailed the ship.
A good example of this is the burning of the USS Philadelphia by U.S. Navy Captain Stephen Decatur in the First Barbary War. The Philadelphia had run aground and was captured by Barbary Pirates; rather than let them keep the prize and have them turn it into an asset to be used against the United States, Decatur burned the ship during a daring night raid in February, 1804.
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Knock the patient unconscious.
