Scope and Contents The collection covers the Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane’s service in the Egyptian expedition of 1801, in his command off Ferrol in 1804 and 1805, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands from 1805 to 1814 and of the North American Station in 1814 and 1815; and that of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane chiefly as Governor of Newfoundland from 1825 to 1834, and as second-in-command and, later, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Station from 1842 to...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Egypt, 1801 (folio 2). The papers include Alexander Cochrane's orders for the landing of the British Troops, 24 January (folio 2), but are mainly taken up with complaints of Cochrane to Lord Keith or regarding his conduct, relative to the lack of supplies for the sick (the action taken by Cochrane and other officers in this matter was regarded as a breach of discipline), to the omission of his name from the Parliamentary vote of thanks to the...