How Amazon disabled Belle Poule with few casualties

How did Amazon inflict decisive damage on Belle Poule while causing relatively few casualties?

She damaged the French frigate's rigging and mobility rather than relying on casualty-heavy hull destruction.

A viewer asks how Amazon could pound Belle Poule into surrender while causing relatively few casualties. British gunnery often concentrated on an opponent's rigging so it could no longer escape. Shot into a well-built hull might produce dangerous splinters without destroying the structure, while the ship's roll also affected whether guns struck hull or upper works. Tactical effect and body count therefore measure different things: immobilizing a frigate could decide the action without killing much of its crew.