Cochran's Misfortunes

By 18 18, lord cockran had been cut from his naval pension and was never given his full share of the prize money from his success out on the high seas. He spent the next three years as a radical member of railing against the conservative post war governments. Enter the chilean ambassador to great britain, jose alvarez, who had a job offer he wanted to discuss with lord cockran. Alvarez offered cochran command of the navy that jose de san martin was putting together for his invasion of peru. And after extravagant promises of the profits to be made, cochran agreed to join the fleet, and he turned his back on great b