Cochrane
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Published: October 2000
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781841191621
Subjects: Biography: general; Naval forces & warfare; British Isles; c 1800 to c 1900; Military
First sentence: Left in the unaccustomed peace and solitude of his prison lodgings, as Thomas Cochrane's racing thoughts became reconciled to his predicament, a particular memory came flooding back: of his arrival as a tall and gangling seventeen-year-old aboard a navy ship - the Hind, a small armed schooner based at Plymouth, nearly twenty-one years before to the day, on 27 June 1793.