num_pages: 320
description: 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 sent 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.
language: English
title: The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral Cochrane
titlecomplete: The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral Cochrane
characters: Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
genres: History
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Birlinn Ltd