Alexander Cochrane

Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane, GCB was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812. He captained HMS Ajax off Alexandria, Egypt during the French invasion of Egypt and Syria. Cochrane was knighted into the Order of the Bath for his services in 1806. In 1814 he became commander-in-chief of the North American Station, led British naval forces during the attacks on Washington and New Orleans, and subsequently became commander-in-chief of the Plymouth naval base.