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.
- ISBN13 9781841580357
- Publish Date 27 June 2000 (first published November 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 June 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Birlinn Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English