Admiral Lord Cochrane was a naval hero of the Napoleonic Wars. He also went in for radical politics and was an ingenious inventor, proposing the use of saturation bombing and chemical warfare over half a century before their use. With a new introduction by Richard Woodman, this autiobiography chronicles his early expoloits against the Spanish, his campaigns against the incompetence and corruption in the navy and government, his accusations of timidity against this superiors, and his inventiveness and eccentricity.