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Memoirs of a Fighting Captain by Admiral Lord Cochrane

The extraordinary life of Admiral Lord Cochrane (1775-1860), later 10th Earl of Dundonald. He was a daring and successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars, leading the French to nickname him Le Loup des Mers (‘The Sea Wolf’ or ‘The Wolf of the Seas’). He was dismissed from the Royal Navy in 1814, following a conviction for fraud on the Stock Exchange and he then served in the rebel navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece during their respective wars of independence. In 1832, he was pardoned and reinstated in the Royal Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue. After several further promotions, he died in 1860 with the rank of Admiral of the Red, and the honorary title of Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom. His life and exploits served as inspiration for the naval fiction of nineteenth and twentieth-century novelists, particularly C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 1264
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2005
• Navy Cloth Hardback with Gilt Titles and Decoration, Pictorial Slipcase, 311 pp
• With coloured frontispiece, many maps and illustrations
• Size 250 x 165mm, 1.2kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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