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Title: With Cochrane the Dauntless

Author: George Alfred Henty

Release Date: July 6, 2008 [Ebook #25993]

Language: English

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WITH

COCHRANE THE DAUNTLESS

A TALE OF

THE EXPLOITS OF LORD COCHRANE IN
SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS

BY

G. A. HENTY
Author of "Under Drake's Flag", "The Dash for Khartoum", "In Greek
Waters",
"The Lion of St. Mark", "Through Russian Snows", &c.

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_WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. H. MARGETSON_

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LONDON

BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
GLASGOW AND DUBLIN
1897

PREFACE.

In the annals of British sailors there is no name that should stand higher
than that of Lord Cochrane. In some respects he resembled that daring
leader and great military genius, the Earl of Peterborough. Both performed
feats that most men would have regarded as impossible, both possessed
extraordinary personal bravery and exceptional genius for war, and a love
for adventure. Both accomplished marvels, and neither was appreciated at
his full value by his countrymen, both having a touch of originality that
amounted in the case of Peterborough to absolute eccentricity. In other
respects they had little in common. Cochrane's life was passed in one long
struggle on behalf of the oppressed. He ruined his career in our navy, and
created for himself a host of bitter enemies by his crusade against the
enormous abuses of our naval administration, and by the ardour with which
he championed the cause of reform at home. Finding the English navy closed
to him he threw himself into the cause of oppressed nationalities. His
valour and genius saved Chili from being recon