Jacket blurbs:

George Cockburn, the sailor who planned and executed the burning of Washington, including the White House (in 1814), was later responsible for taking Napoleon to St Helena and acting there as his gaoler (1815-6) before going on to become a member of Parliament and finally First Naval Lord!
Captain Pack, the former director of the Royal Naval Museum Portsmouth, has researched the Cockburn papers and produced the first biography of this fascinating character — friend and shipmate of both Nelson and Hardy — whose multi-faceted career embraced, equally successfully, roles as fighting sailor, diplomat, politician and naval administrator.

The book highlights his triumphs in the American theatre where, with a small army of Royal Marines he took Washington, albeit for only 48 hours, but dominated the Chesapeake and Patuxent rivers with his ships, many locally captured, for the best part of two years.

With 34 illustrations and 10 maps.

The author:

Captain A J Pack, OBE, Royal Navy

Captain Pack joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1932. At the end of three years' wartime service in the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious he was invited by Captain Charles Lambe, (later Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles) who was then completing service as the ship's commanding officer, to join his
personal staff on his promotion to flag rank. A long and continuous association was spent in a number of important command appointments. After leaving the Navy, Pack followed his interest in naval history and antiquities by directing the affairs of the Royal Naval Museum alongside HMS Victory at Portsmouth. From 1965 to 1979 he was instrumental in leading the museum through a period of great expansion and which, today, spearheads the vast heritage development in Portsmouth's naval base.

He is a member of the Society for Nautical Research and is chairman of its southern branch. He also serves on the Council of Friends and the Board of Trustees of the Royal Naval Museum.

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