Sketches From My Life / By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha
by Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden
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About This Book
Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden was a British naval captain and a Turkish admiral. In 1835 he joined the Royal navy and served in several major campaigns. In 1862 he retired from the Royal navy and still wanting adventure became a blockade runner in eh American Civil War. In 1867 he joined the Turkish navy. In 1881 he was the first Christian to be awarded the Mushir. Sketches From My Life is his autobiography but it must be warned that it does contain several inaccuracies.
Chapters (50)
- SKETCHES FROM MY LIFE
- THIRD EDITION
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS
- SKETCHES FROM MY LIFE.
- CHAPTER I.
- A ROUGH START IN LIFE.
- CHAPTER II.
- PERILS BY SEA AND LAND.
- CHAPTER III.
- A TRAGICAL AFFAIR.
- CHAPTER IV.
- RIO DE JANEIRO.
- CHAPTER V.
- SLAVER HUNTING.
- CHAPTER VI.
- SLAVER HUNTING (continued).
- CHAPTER VII.
- LOVE AND MURDER.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE QUEEN'S YACHT.
- CHAPTER IX.
- IN THE BALTIC.
- CHAPTER X.
- BLOCKADE-RUNNING.
- CHAPTER XI.
- EXCITING ADVENTURES.
- CHAPTER XII.
- A VISIT TO CHARLESTON.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- NEVER CAUGHT!
- CHAPTER XIV.
- LAST DAYS ON THE 'D——N.'
- CHAPTER XV.
- RICHMOND DURING THE SIEGE.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- THE LAND BLOCKADE.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- I ENTER THE TURKISH NAVY.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- THE WAR WITH RUSSIA.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- THE TURKISH FLEET DURING THE WAR.
- CHAPTER XX.
- SPORT IN TURKEY.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- SPORT AND SOCIETY.
- EXTRACT FROM THE 'DAILY TELEGRAPH,'
- June 21, 1886.
- FOOTNOTE
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