Kitty wrote: ↑August 18th, 2018, 1:55 am
Timothy Ferguson wrote: ↑July 12th, 2018, 5:59 am
It turns out Ch 13 has a couple of pages in French, and my French is so bad...as you will hear in an upcoming chapter!
So, if I wanted to ask around for a French speaker to do either the whole chapter, or just the letter (they choose) should I ask in "Readers Wanted: Languages other than English "?
so here is the French letter, I hope this is how you wanted it.
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/lifeofthomaslordcochrane1_letter.mp3
Recording time: 2:33 min.
If you need any further help with French, let me know.
So I'm curious: did Cochrane accept the Greek offer to help in their independence war ?
Sonia
Hi, sorry for the delay: medical troubles.
Thank you so much!
As to Cochrane's activity in Greece, he doesn't actually have a big battle, movie style. One of his subordinates does have a battle and destroy some Turkish ships. At about this point, the British, French, Russians and Turks say to each other "Can we afford to have a mercenary navy wandering around the Black Sea?" and sat down to sort things out.
From the British perspective, Cochrane has developed a super-weapon, presented it to the Admiralty, and been told to never tell anyone else about this, ever, and not use the technology at any time. They are worried that he's so annoyed at them and so broke that he might use it, so, again, they want to sort things out diplomatically. They are worried that if the rest of the world reverse engineer the weapon, the British Navy will be far less effective.
(The Cochrane super-weapon was an entire ship rigged to explode, with the hull re-enforced to make the charge directional, like a mortar, so that it scatters flaming debris across a fort or fleet. These are really cheap to make out of old ships you can't use for anything else anymore.)