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A late starter in the navy, Thomas signed up at the tender age of 17 in 1793, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary Wars in France, joining his uncle Captain Alexander Cochrane aboard HMS Hind. Cochrane had been listed as a crew member on Naval boats since he was five; an illegal tactic often employed so that, when he did join the Navy, there ...
14 de mai. de 2016 · Quienes vieron la película "Master and commander" (Capitán de mar y guerra, en Latinoamérica), no tendrán dificultad para imaginar la peculiar personalidad de Lord Thomas Cochrane.
Lord Thomas Cochrane. Fundador de la Marina de Chile. 1775 – 1860. A lo largo de su vida, el marino británico Thomas Alexander Cochrane luchó por la libertad de cuatro naciones: Chile, Perú, Brasil y Grecia. De cuna aristocrática, Cochrane ingresó en la Marina británica siendo un adolescente y le correspondió servir a su país en el ...
Cochrane was born in Scotland on April 23, 1758, to Jane Stuart and Thomas Cochrane. His father was a Scottish nobleman and army officer who rose to the rank of major. In the year Alexander was born, the elder Cochrane became the Eighth Earl of Dundonald, but Alexander—the sixth of eight sons—would not inherit his father ’ s title or property.
Há 2 dias · Thomas was born at Annesfield in Lanarkshire, Scotland, a son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, and Anna, daughter of Captain Gilchrist of the Royal Navy. His uncles were Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, John and Andrew. His brothers were Archibald, Basil and William. In his autobiography he says that the earliest authentic record of ...
21 de ago. de 2018 · It did him no real harm at first, and in 1800 he was given his first command, HMS Speedy, a brig armed with 14 small cannons. The following year saw the escapade which made his name when he unfurled a neutral American flag and took his small ship right up to the Spanish frigate El Gamo. Cochrane “parked” Speedy underneath the enemy’s guns ...
28 de nov. de 2013 · The author is indebted to Alexander Cochrane, Malcolm Cochrane and the Fundación Pablo Neruda for advice concerning Douglas Cochrane's translation of ‘Lord Cochrane de Chile’; to Pola de Kadt Valdivieso for information about Douglas Cochrane, Pablo Neruda and Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt; and to Dr David Cordingly, David Matthew and Douglas Dundonald for their comments on drafts of the article.
