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From the bestselling writer of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero after whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.Nicknamed le loup des mers (“the sea wolf”) by Napoleon, Thomas Cochrane was one of the very most daring and successful naval heroes ever. In such a fascinating account of Cochrane's life, historian David Cordingly unearths startling new details about the real-life “Master and Commander,” from his daring exploits from the French navy to his role in the liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil, and the shock 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 Drawing on previously unpublished papers, his own travels, wide reading, and the kind of original research that distinguished The Billy Ruffian, Cordingly tells the rip-roaring story of the archetypal romantic hero who conquered the seas and, along the way, defined his era.
