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This is an account of the life span and adventures of the daring seaman Thomas Cochrane, who rose from midshipman to admiral and was called "the ocean wolf" by Napoleon. His exploits were so compelling that the novelist Patrick O'Brian used them as the basis for the character Jack Aubrey, the key protagonist of naval novels set during the Napoleonic War. Thomas Cochrane was framed in a STOCK MARKET scandal, sentenced to the pillory, escaped prison by means of a rope and fled the united states to become a mercenary admiral fighting for independence. From the coast of Chile, Peru, Brazil and Greece, always outnumbered and outgunned, he became a legend of daring and courage. Using one occasion he chased the entire Portuguese fleet in one ship.
