Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - War & Military, Modern (19th C), Memoirs

Authors: Lord Thomas Cochrane In Year : 1861

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2

Chapter 24 - A Naval Study For All Time
Chapter 25 - A Naval Study Continued
Chapter 26 - A Naval Study Continued
Chapter 27 - Conduct of the Court-Martial
Chapter 28 - The Vote of Thanks
Chapter 29 - Refusal of My Plans For Attacking the French Fleet in the Scheldt
Chapter 30 - My Plans For Attacking the French Coast Refused, And Myself Superseded
Chapter 31 - Visit To The Admiralty Court At Malta
Chapter 32 - Naval legislation Half A Century Ago
Chapter 33 - Opening of parliament, 1812
Chapter 34 - My Secret Plans
Chapter 35 - Naval and Other Discussions in Parliament
Chapter 36 - My Marriage
Chapter 37 part 1 - Naval Abuses
Chapter 37 part 2 - Naval Abuses
Chapter 38 - The Stock-Exchange Trial
Chapter 39 - Untitled
Chapter 40 - Untitled
Appendices 1 and 2
Appendices 3 and 4
Appendices 5 to 8
Appendices 9 to 12
Appendices 13 to 17
Appendices 18 to 20

This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to clear his name. It has had a marked influence on naval fiction, most obviously on some of the novels by Patrick O'Brian. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson