The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral Cochrane

by Grimble, Ian

• ISBN13: 9781841580357
• ISBN10: 184158035X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

Summary

Thomas Cochrane's life has inspired naval authors from Frederick Marryat to Patrick O'Brien, but the Scottish admiral's life contained more adventures than any novelist could have created. Cochrane was a successful commander during the Napoleonic Wars, but his unorthodox tactics and views made him no friends at the Admiralty.

After being jailed on dubious corruption charges he spent most of the rest of his life commanding foreign navies, such as those of Chile, Peru, Brazil and Greece. Inheriting the title Earl of Dundonald restored his respectability in Britain and he spent his remaining years in England as an inventor, being buried in Westminster Abbey upon his death in 1860 at age 85.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	6	(2)
Acknowledgments	8	(1)
Apprenticeship	9	(19)
First Command	28	(22)
The Golden Pallas	50	(21)
The Imperieuse	71	(23)
Aix Roads	94	(24)
Crusader	118	(34)
Downfall	152	(25)
Rebel with a Cause	177	(11)
The Liberation of Chile	188	(27)
The Liberation of Peru	215	(31)
The Parting of the Ways	246	(13)
The Marquess of Maranhao	259	(31)
The Liberation of Greece	290	(27)
Home from Sea	317	(31)
Prometheus Bound	348	(36)
Postscript: The Secret War Plan of Lord Dundonald	384	(31)
Charles Stephenson
Appendix One: Temporary Mortars	415	(2)
Appendix Two: Sulphur Ships	417	(1)
Bibliography	418	(3)
Index	421