Lord Cochrane

Ep 225: Stephen prepares to play his part in Jack’s Mauritius mission. We have reflections on natural philosophy, a covert mission ashore, and co-operation with the Army in the first action of the campaign - but will it be a success for all concerned? Plus - more parrot revelations.

....Most authors come to the conclusion that Cochrane was innocent and should not have been convicted.
But why was Cochrane not defended separately? Why did he not disassociate himself from his uncle Cochrane Johnstone? Was family loyalty really the reason for his decision?

....Chile's, Peru's and Brazil's gain.

To the end of his long and eventful life he protested his innocence.
"God is my judge that the crime imputed to me I did not commit."

The question of his guilt or innocence is still discussed in various publications. ....

.....to him and his young wife Kate was carrying their first child) turned into the darkest of his life.
Four years later Cochrane, with his wife Kate and their two sons, sailed to South America. Britain's loss would soon become...

...for Cochrane, a man to whom dishonourable conduct in any form was anathema.
A year which had started on a very promising note (he had been appointed flag captain of HMS Tonnant, a patent for his newly designd lamp had been granted....

....was struck out of the list of captains in the Royal Navy. The pillory sentence was later remitted because it most likely would have caused a riot.
To be convicted for a crime he had not committed was a traumatising experience....

....up at Cochrane's house in Green Street while his Lordship was supervising the production of his new convoy lamp at Mr. King's tin factory at Snow Hill.
He was fined, imprisoned for a year, stripped of his knighthood and his name....

...which ultimately led to a trial before Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough. Cochrane's conviction on the basis of mere circumstantial evidence was mainly based on the fact that the officer who spread the false news of Napoleon's defeat showed...

....was killed and his army defeated caused a temporary rise in British Funds.
Lord Cochrane had been buying and selling stocks for a considerable time prior to February 1814 and was among those who made profits on 21 February.
Several months of investigation followed....

212th Anniversary of the Great Stock Exchange Fraud

21 February is a date which was deeply ingrained in Thomas Cochrane's mind and to the end of his life he referred to 21 February as 'the day of my ruin'.
On this day in 1814 news that Napoleon....
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Finished!
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After 38 years I have picked up a pencil again....
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...been subdued into perfect order.'

American Consul General Prevost in a dispatch sent in 1819

....discipline of the crews that would have appalled a less determined character - men of every grade and description assembled from different parts of the Globe for the purpose of plunder as of promoting the cause of freedom have by his address, firmness and perseverance...

'When I take into view the materials with which he had to operate, I think he deserves infinite praise for having maintained the Sovereignty of the Ocean.He had difficulties to encounter in the organisation of the marine and in the..
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With Cochrane it largely depends on the person he wrote to. There's a letter he wrote to one of his sons. It's written in a wonderful neat handwriting as if he wanted to make clear to his son how important it is to write a legible hand.

Yes, you're correct. This is a letter he sent to his uncle. He actually could, and most of the time actually did, write in a much more legible hand, thank God! 😅

You are very fortunate to read letters written by someone with such a legible handwriting. Here's a bit written by Cochrane ;-0

....and extraordinary cast; and every question or remark that drops from him, indicates an intelligent and inquisitive mind. To all those high qualities, he adds the most ar- dent love of enterprize, and a calm indifference to danger.'
-S. Gridley Howe-

...kind-hearted, none more ready to pity or weep at the sight of distress in others. His passions are quick and violent, yet under the control of his reason; and there is in his plans a strange mixture of daring and prudence. His talents are of an original,...

....narrow; his sandy complexion looks more
so, from a large pair of reddish whiskers; and his eyes, which are quick and sparkling, indicate rather mildness than ferocity of temper. His manner is polite, and very gentle; his susceptibilities the most acute, and there can be no one more...

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'He is tall, so very tall, that an habitual and considerable stoop does not prevent his overtopping all about him; his large, bony, though gaunt frame, exhibits signs of prodigious strength; his face is long and...
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....place myself in an armchair on the poop with each leg on a cushion I will undertake to subdue every insular fortification at Kronstadt within four hours from the commencement of the attack."

...the public, " he told SirJames Graham, "have made an outcry against all old admirals (as if it were expected that they should be able to clear their way with a broadsword) but, my dear Sir James, were it necessary - which it is not - that I should...