# Thomas Cochrane

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Peter Moore: Thomas Cochrane's Explosion at Basque Roads (1809)

On 11 April 1809 Thomas Cochrane, RN, made one of the most famous assaults in British naval history. At the Battle of Basque Roads – at which he destroyed much of the French Atlantic Fleet – he detonated an explosion vessel so powerful that it is still being spoken about today. This is a special a…

The Great Napoleonic Escape

Lieutenant Charles Hare was a young British naval officer who made an extraordinarily elaborate escape from a French prisoner-of-war camp during the Napoleonic Wars... with the help of his English Terrier dog. Captured at just 14, Hare spent years in captivity before devising an audacious plan to f…

2. Thomas Cochrane: The Battle of Basque Roads

2/3. Thomas Cochrane and his crew of the HMS Imperieuse embark on their greatest and most audacious scheme yet; Cochrane leads a flotilla of burning vessels and exploding bomb ships piled high with gunpowder into a fleet of Napoleon's forces off the coast of Biscay. The Battle of Basque Roads made …

3. Thomas Cochrane: From Disgrace to Freedom Fighter

3/3. After a meteoric rise to fame, Cochrane finds himself in front of a court and stripped of his titles for fraud on the London Stock Exchange. Known for his ingenuity and schemes, Cochrane breaks out of prison before embarking on the adventure of a lifetime in South America. He's put in charge o…

1. Thomas Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander

Dan tells a story as dramatic, unlikely and exciting as any ever penned by an author about one of Britain's greatest sailors. Thomas Lord Cochrane was a naval commander with an illustrious career in the Napoleonic Wars who once strapped himself to a floating bomb, in a rising storm, in the dead of …

BROTHERS IN LAW AT WAR + The Greatest Naval Hero | Ep.151 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast

In the last episode Phil explored one of the darkest chapters of the ‘War of the Waleses’, the post mortem ’thrashing of Diana’ by some of her ex husband’s closest advisors. He didn’t know then that this story would, within a week, become headline news all around the world because of the new book b…

Lord Cochrane: The real Jack Aubrey?

Thomas Cochrane: The real-life Master and Commander | Peter Moore’s A Dangerous Game Naval hero. Political radical. Convicted fraudster. Thomas Cochrane’s life makes the fiction he inspired look almost tame. Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse discuss Peter Moore’s A Dangerous Game, a biography of o…

151. *boat girl summer* The Metallic Lord

In this episode, we return after an unplanned two-week hiatus. We live to fight another day, just like one of the subject of this week's episode, Captain Thomas Cochrane. We also hear about the 9/11 of the seas: the sinking of the Lusitania. Boat girl summer goes out with a bang!

Thomas Cochrane: Craziest Sea Captain in History

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Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1-Henry Fox Bourne, Thomas Barnes Cochrane

"Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1" offers an in-depth exploration of the remarkable life of Thomas Cochrane, a figure of significant historical importance. Written by Henry Fox Bourne and Thomas Barnes Cochrane, this biography captures the essence of a man whose adventu…