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The Autobiography of a Seaman.
The Autobiography of a Seaman
That's how it was back in the old days.
You had to toot your own flute to get ahead, and sometimes just to get your own, your just desserts. Military leaders of the past especially had to head up their own public relations. Some had rich and influential friends and relations who might round out the PR team, but mostly it was DIY.
Such were the times for Admiral Lord Cochrane, one of the courageous and daring British naval captains during the Napoleonic Wars.
Forester's Hornblower series and Patrick O'Brian's long-running Master and Commander series both modeled their heros after Cochrane. So exciting was his career, little in the way of fiction nee