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Book Synopsis Cochrane the Dauntless by : David Cordingly
Download or read book Cochrane the Dauntless written by David Cordingly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick O'Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of his fictional counterparts. He was a man of action, whose bold and impulsive nature meant he was often his own worst enemy. Writing with gripping narrative skill and drawing on his own travels and original research, Cordingly tells the rip-roaring story of a flawed Romantic hero who helped define his age.
Download or read book Cochrane written by David Cordingly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating account of Thomas Cochrane's extraordinary life, David Cordingly (Under the Black Flag and The Billy Ruffian) unearths startling new details about the real-life "Master and Commander"-from his heroic battles against the French navy to his role in the liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil, and the stock exchange scandal that forced him out of England and almost ended his naval career. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, his own travels, wide reading, and original research, Cordingly tells the rip-roaring story of the archetypal Romantic hero who conquered the seas and, in the process, defined his era.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Discovered Antarctica by : Sheila Bransfield
Download or read book The Man Who Discovered Antarctica written by Sheila Bransfield and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the British naval officer who found the Antarctic shoreline in the early nineteeth century. Captain Cook claimed the honor of being the first man to sail into the Antarctic Ocean in 1773, which he circumnavigated the following year. Cook, though, did not see any land, and declared that there was no such thing as the Southern Continent. Fifty years later, an Irishman who’d been impressed into the Royal Navy at eighteen, and risen through the ranks to the position of master, proved Cook wrong, discovering and charting parts of the Antarctic shoreline. He also discovered Elephant Island and Clarence Island, claiming them for the British Crown. Edward Bransfield’s naval career included taking part in the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816 onboard the 50-gun warship HMS Severn. Then, in 1817, he was posted to the Royal Navy’s Pacific Squadron off Valparaíso in Chile, and it was while he served there that the skipper of an English whaling ship, the Williams, was driven south by adverse winds and discovered what came to be known as the South Shetland Islands where Cook had said there was no land. Bransfield’s superior officer, Captain Sherriff, decided to investigate further. He chartered Williams and sent Bransfield with two midshipmen and a ship’s surgeon into the Antarctic—and the Irishman sailed into history. Despite many parts of Antarctica and an Antarctic survey vessel being named after him, and a Royal Mail commemorative stamp issued in his name, the full story of this remarkable man and his historic journey, have never been told—until now. Following decades of research, Sheila Bransfield MA, a member of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, has produced the definitive biography of one of Britain’s greatest maritime explorers. The book also includes a foreword by the Trust’s patron the Princess Royal. “Bransfield’s meticulous research gives us a detailed account of the daily routines of the Navy and the immense amount of maintenance required of a large wooden warship in the Age of Sail.” —Historical Novel Society
Book Synopsis The Audacious Admiral Cochrane by : Brian Vale
Download or read book The Audacious Admiral Cochrane written by Brian Vale and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Royal Navy captain, radical politician, respected inventor, Vice Admiral of Chile, First Admiral of Brazil - Lord Cochrane (1775-1860) achieved legendary status during a lifetime that spanned the conflicts of the late Georgian period into the relative peace and stability of the Victorian era. But he is best remembered as a naval hero, immortalised in the protagonists of the fiction of Patrick O'Brian, C.S. Forester and Frederick Marryat. ... Although his naval accomplishments are numerous, his career was marked by controversy and pathological disputes with some of the eminent men of the period; Admiral Lord Keith described him as 'wrong-headed, violent and proud'. Late in life, he published a series of autobiographies which have been accepted, unquestioned, as an accurate version of events. In this book Brian Vale sets the record straight. He has thoroughly investigated the incidents in Cochrane's life, going back to original sources in the archives of the UK, Chile and Brazil. What emerges is a different picture to the one conveyed by Cochrane that ultimately reveals a much more complex and intriguing figure."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet (Complete) by : H. R. Fox Bourne
Download or read book The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet (Complete) written by H. R. Fox Bourne and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald by : Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald (11th Earl of)
Download or read book The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald written by Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald (11th Earl of) and published by London : R. Bentley. This book was released on 1869 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Autobiography, Sensation, and the Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative by : Sean Grass
Download or read book Autobiography, Sensation, and the Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative written by Sean Grass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the commodification of autobiography 1820-1860 in relation to shifting fictional representations of identity.
Book Synopsis The Noble Stockjobber, Or Facts Unveiled; Irrefutably to Disprove Lord Cochrane's Affidavits, Given as a Simple Narrative ... of the Author's Intercourse with the Cochrane Family ... and Proving that Lord Cochrane was Interested in the Events that on the 21st of February 1814 Affected the Stock Exchange by : Charles RANDOM DE BÉRENGER (Baron de Beaufain.)
Download or read book The Noble Stockjobber, Or Facts Unveiled; Irrefutably to Disprove Lord Cochrane's Affidavits, Given as a Simple Narrative ... of the Author's Intercourse with the Cochrane Family ... and Proving that Lord Cochrane was Interested in the Events that on the 21st of February 1814 Affected the Stock Exchange written by Charles RANDOM DE BÉRENGER (Baron de Beaufain.) and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 1 by : Stephen Bending
Download or read book Women's Travel Writings in Iberia Vol 1 written by Stephen Bending and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal and Spain in the early nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Admiral's Secret Weapon by : Charles Stephenson
Download or read book The Admiral's Secret Weapon written by Charles Stephenson and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Cochrane, the tenth earl of Dundonald, had a controversial naval career, both in the Royal Navy and overseas, but it is on his work as an inventor, and on one invention in particular, that this book concentrates. Charles Stephenson tells the incredible story of what was possibly his most ruthless and advanced creation: a scheme to generate massive amounts of poison gas, accompanied by saturation bombing and smoke screens. The earl had, in fact, invented chemical warfare; and, with his 'stink ships' and explosion vessels, he also worked out the technology required to deploy this terrible weapon." "Considered too revolutionary at the time, Cochrane's invention was kept under wraps, though it could have been deployed during the Crimean War had the conflict not ended when it did. During the First World War, however, certain documents detailing the plans disappeared. It was feared, by the then earl of Dundonald, that they had fallen into German hands, where the concept, modified and adapted, was employed in the use of chlorine gas at Ypres in 1915." "Charles Stephenson draws on previously unseen material from the Dundonald family archive in his account of the earl and his invention, and follows the story of the use of poison gas through to its place in modern warfare."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars: The Modern Mercenary in Combat by : Al J. Venter
Download or read book War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars: The Modern Mercenary in Combat written by Al J. Venter and published by Lancer Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions by : Gabriel B. Paquette
Download or read book Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions written by Gabriel B. Paquette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering account of the links between Portugal and Brazil which survived despite the demise of the Portuguese Atlantic empire.
Book Synopsis Connections After Colonialism by : Matthew Brown
Download or read book Connections After Colonialism written by Matthew Brown and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s. In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the independence of Latin America, and the ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New. Connections after Colonialism, edited by Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette, builds upon recent advances in the history of colonialism and imperialism by studying former colonies and metropoles through the same analytical lens, as part of an attempt to understand the complex connections—political, economic, intellectual, and cultural—between Europe and Latin America that survived the demise of empire. Historians are increasingly aware of the persistence of robust links between Europe and the new Latin American nations. This book focuses on connections both during the events culminating with independence and in subsequent years, a period strangely neglected in European and Latin American scholarship. Bringing together distinguished historians of both Europe and America, the volume reveals a new cast of characters and relationships ranging from unrepentant American monarchists, compromise seeking liberals in Lisbon and Madrid who envisioned transatlantic federations, and British merchants in the River Plate who saw opportunity where others saw risk to public moralists whose audiences spanned from Paris to Santiago de Chile and plantation owners in eastern Cuba who feared that slave rebellions elsewhere in the Caribbean would spread to their island. Contributors Matthew Brown / Will Fowler / Josep M. Fradera / Carrie Gibson / Brian Hamnett / Maurizio Isabella / Iona Macintyre / Scarlett O’Phelan Godoy / Gabriel Paquette / David Rock / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara / Jay Sexton / Reuben Zahler
Book Synopsis The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815 by : Janet W. Macdonald
Download or read book The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815 written by Janet W. Macdonald and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Royal Navy's Victualling Board, the body responsible for supplying the fleet. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy increased its manpower from fewer than 20,000 to more than 147,000 men, with a concomitant increase in the quantities of food and drink required to sustain them.The organisation responsible for this, the Victualling Board, performed its tasks using techniques and systems which it had developed over the previous 110 years. In terms of actually delivering supplies to warships, troopships and army garrisons abroad, the Victualling Board performed well given the constraints of long-distance communications and intermittent difficulties in obtaining supplies. However, its other areas of responsibility showed poor performance, as evidenced by the reports of several Parliamentary enquiries. This book examines in detail the processes by which the Victualling Board performed its core and non-core tasks, identifying the areas of competence and incompetence, and establishing the underlying causes of the incompetencies. JANET MACDONALD, author of the highly acclaimed Feeding Nelson's Navy (Chatham, 2004), has recently completed a thesis at King's College London. After a business career, and running an equestrian organisation, she spent ten years as a freelance writer, publishing more than thirty books.
Book Synopsis The Guilt of Lord Cochrane in 1814 by : Edward Downes Law Ellenborough (5th Baron)
Download or read book The Guilt of Lord Cochrane in 1814 written by Edward Downes Law Ellenborough (5th Baron) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Naval History by : Richard Harding
Download or read book Modern Naval History written by Richard Harding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the historical context to enable this further research, Modern Naval History is a key historiographical guide for students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of naval history and its contemporary relevance. Navies play an important role in the modern world, and the globalisation of economies, cultures and societies has placed a premium on maritime communications. Modern Naval History demonstrates the importance of naval history today, showing its relevance to a number of disciplines and its role in understanding how navies relate to their host societies. Richard Harding explains why naval history is still important, despite slipping from the attention of policy makers and the public since 1945, and how it can illuminate answers to questions relating to economic, diplomatic, political, social and cultural history. The book explores how naval history has informed these fields and how it can produce a richer and more informed historical understanding of navies and sea power.
Book Synopsis Contacts, Collisions and Relationships by : Andrés Baeza Ruz
Download or read book Contacts, Collisions and Relationships written by Andrés Baeza Ruz and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806–1831). It focuses on the dynamic, unpredictable and changing nature of cultural encounters to cast doubt on the assumption that imperialism was their obvious outcome and to understand further nation-building processes.
