2. Thomas Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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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 Cochrane a national treasure but only for a while... when the truth about what happened that night reaches London, Cochrane finds himself up against enemies far worse than the French.

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Written by Dan Snow, produced by Mariana Des Forges, edited by Joseph Knight and sound designed & mixed by Dougal Patmore.

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0:42.2	Britain and France spent most of the 18th century competing for control of the world.
0:49.0	From South Asia to the Americas, their merchants vied for the fabulously lucrative sugar trade that flourished
0:57.7	as the empires seized swaths of the Caribbean and West Africa.
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1:08.0	in the Mediterranean and the Levant.
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1:15.9	hundred years war. The world just wasn't big enough for the
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