Chilean Navy Officers: Chilean Admirals, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Arturo Prat, Diego Portales, Jos Joaqu N Prieto

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Chilean admirals, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Arturo Prat, Diego Portales, Jose Joaquin Prieto, Jose Toribio Merino, List of commanders-in-chief of the Chilean Navy, Carlos Condell, Juan Jose Latorre, Jorge Montt, Robert Winthrop Simpson, Francisco de la Lastra, Francisco Hudson, Luis Uribe, Patricio Lynch, Juan Williams Rebolledo, Cornelio Saavedra Rodriguez, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Jose Ignacio Zenteno, Edmundo Gonzalez, John Williams Wilson, Ismael Huerta, Francisco Nef, Patricio Carvajal, Carlos Frodden, Policarpo Toro, Francisco Vidal Gormaz, Vicente Merino. Excerpt: Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhao, GCB, ODM (14 December 1775 - 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a senior British naval flag officer and radical politician. He was a daring and successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars, leading the French to nickname him Le Loup des Mers ('The Sea Wolf' or 'The Wolf of the Seas'). He was dismissed from the Royal Navy in 1814, following a conviction for fraud on the Stock Exchange and he then served in the rebel navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece during their respective wars of independence. In 1832, he was pardoned and reinstated in the Royal Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue. After several further promotions, he died in 1860 with the rank of Admiral of the Red, and the honorary title of Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom. His life and exploits served as one source of inspiration for the naval fiction of nineteenth and twentieth-century novelists, particularly Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey. Thomas Cochrane's father Archibald Cochrane, the 9th Earl of Dundonald.Thomas Cochrane was born at Annsfield, near Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, the son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald a...