Claim: In Badge of Glory, Lessard did not engage in fighting and returned to England via Freetown while Major Rupert Fynmore battled with well-entrenched slavers who had weapons not yet issued to the marines.
Evidence: But the hard-fighting marines are victorious, and Lessard, the leader of the slavers, falls, or is pushed, into the hold of a laden slave ship, where he's torn apart.