Sir George Cockburn papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4400
Subjects: Correspondence; Denmark; Denmark. Søværnet; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain; Naval History; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Ship's papers; British Naval operations; Colonies; Destruction and pillage; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, logbooks, journals, fleet orders, reports, and other papers relating to Cockburn's career in the British Royal Navy.  Subjects include the War of 1812 and British naval activities against France and Spain, especially in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean.  Documents Horatio Nelson's Mediterranean exploits; the attempt to rescue King Ferdinand VII, King of Spain; destruction of the Danish navy (Søværnet) in 1801; the burning of Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812; and the exile of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French.  Also includes material relating to Spanish colonies in South America and the history of the West Indies, the Bermuda Islands, and the Middle Atlantic states.

Correspondents include comte Henri-Gratien Bertrand; Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane; Graf Andreas Daschkoff; W.E. Gladstone; James Monroe; Charles-Tristan, comte de Montholon; Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson; and William Pinkney.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 17,576.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.

Purchase, 1909-1912.

Gift, James C. Bately, 1982.

British naval officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010161