I was just reading the after action report submitted by Lt Stephen Decatur of the successful raid to recapture the Philadelphia, setting fires in multiple places blow decks, underfire from the shore batteries... Philadelphia's guns going off, cooking off... d*mn well want your means of escape clear lest the fire spread to her.
Agree, the report only specifies taking off one wounded prisioner. One might find some grabbed trinket forgotten in one's pocket... but with victory not assured, it would be the height of arrogance to risk one's military objective for a trophy.
It was a great feat, with none killed & only a single man wounded.