Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf by Donald Thomas

Author:Donald Thomas [Thomas, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Europe, History, Great Britain, Historical, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Military, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding, Great Britain - History; Naval - 19th Century, Non Fiction
ISBN: 9781557508089
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2002-11-01T06:00:00+00:00

The opinion was, of course, that of Napoleon during his long exile on St Helena.

There remained only the vote of thanks. The parliamentary session of 1809 was over by the time of Gambier's acquittal, so that the vote was postponed until the opening of the next session in January 1810. Cochrane tried to forestall the ministers by demanding in the Commons that the minutes of the court-martial should be produced before the House. This would have enabled him to debate their contents, as well as the conduct of the trial and the way in which evidence had, allegedly, been manufactured or suppressed. Cochrane promised to prove that the charts of Stokes and Fairfax must be false. Moreover, since Gambier himself had at no time been closer than seven miles to the guns of the French fleet - let alone within range of them - on what conceivable argument was he entitled to a vote of thanks ?

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