Coup de grâce Coup de grâce A coup de grâce (; French for "blow of mercy") is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal. It may be a mercy killing of civilians or soldiers, friends or enemies, with or without the sufferer's consent. Examples of "coup de grâce" include shooting the heart or head (typically the back of the skull) of a wounded, but still living, person during an execution or by humanely killing a suffering, mortally wounded soldier, in war, for whom medical aid is not available. In pre-firearms eras the wounded were finished with
French frigate Républicaine française (1794) of whom were wounded. The British had two men badly wounded in the action; although the enemy suffered many wounded, they apparently had no deaths. "Renomee" shared in the proceeds of "Grasshopper"s capture on 12 November of the American schooner "Henrietta", Henry Dawson, master. "Renomee" was scrapped at Deptford in September 1810. Derek Gardner created a painting of her surrender to HMS "Alfred". French frigate Républicaine française (1794) The Républicaine française was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, of the "Galathée" class. The Royal Navy captured her in 1796. The Navy fitted her as a troopship in 1800, but