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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit
Episode: 1. Thomas Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
Description: 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 a moonless night to take out a French fleet. Another time, he convinced an enemy force to surrender to a navy that didn’t exist. Napoleon dubbed him 'The Sea Wolf'.In part 1 of this 3-part series, Dan delves into Cochrane's early life an...