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Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833–1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. Navy’s blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. Written by his descendent Colin Carlin, Captain James Carlin ventures behind the scenes of this perilous trade that transported vital supplies to the Confederate forces.An Englishman trained in the British merchant marine, Carlin was recruited into the U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Survey Department in 1856, spending four years charting the U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Married and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, he resigned from the survey in 1860 to resume his maritime career. His blockade-running started with early runs into Charleston under sail. These came to a lively conclusion under gunfire off the Stono River mouth. More blockade-running followed until his capture on the SS Memphis. Documents in London reveal the politics of securing Carlin’s release from Fort Lafayette.On his return to Charleston, General P. G. T. Beauregard gave him command of the spar torpedo launch Torch for an attack on the USS New Ironsides. After more successful trips though the blockade, he was appointed superintending captain of the South Carolina Importing and Exporting Company and moved to Scotland to commission six new steam runners.After the war Carlin returned to the southern states to secure his assets before embarking on a gun-running expedition to the northern coast of Cuba for the Cuban Liberation Junta fighting to free the island from Spanish control and plantation slavery.In researching his forebear, the author gathered a wealth of private and public records from England, Scotland, Ireland, Greenland, the Bahamas, and the United States. The use of fresh sources from British Foreign Office and U.S. Prize Court documents and surviving business papers make this volume distinctive.

This account of William Kirkpatrick of Malaga reveals for the first time a remarkable man only occasionally mentioned in the numerous biographies of his famous granddaughter, the Empress Eugenie. As United States Consul in Malaga between 1800 and 1817, William Kirkpatrick was a strong advocate of the US Navy's role in combating the Barbary Corsairs. His Consular work, business enterprises and extensive European and American connections are explored using new sources. These show that the Kirkpatricks of Dumfriesshire who settled in Spain in the 1730s were an enterprising family of international merchants. Allied with similar families from across Europe, the Kirkpatricks revolutionised trade and industry in southern Spain and even had a hand in introducing grapevines to Australia. The Kirkpatrick family received wide attention when Eugenie, aided by her mother the formidable Maria Manuela, Countess de Montijo, made a spectacular marriage to Napoleon III and became Empress Regent of France, a confidante of Queen Victoria, and an iconic figure in 19th Century Europe.After a wide-ranging business career in Africa, Colin Carlin now lives in Bath where he is associated with a leading contemporary art gallery.

El presente estudio sobre William Kirkpatrick de Malaga viene a poner de manifiesto y dar a conocer, por vez primera, la figura y obra de un hombre verdaderamente excepcional, mencionado unicamente hasta ahora en las numerosas biografias de su famosa nieta la emperatriz Eugenia. Como consul de los Estados Unidos en Malaga entre 1800 y 1817, William Kirkpatrick paso por ser un firme defensor de la implicacion directa de la marina estadounidense en la lucha contra los corsarios de berberia. Nuevas fuentes historicas profundizan en su labor consular, sus empresas comerciales y sus importantes conexiones europeas y americanas. Lo que vendria a demostrar que los Kirkpatricks de Dumfriesshire, establecidos en Espana en la decada de 1730, conformaron una de las grandes familias pioneras del comercio internacional. Siempre en estrecha relacion con familias similares de todo el Viejo Continente, los Kirkpatricks revolucionaron el comercio y la industria en el sur de Espana, llegando incluso a ser participes en la introduccion de la vid en Australia.La familia Kirkpatrick acaparo toda la atencion del Viejo Continente cuando Eugenia, apoyada por su madre, la singular Maria Manuela, condesa de Montijo, concerto un espectacular matrimonio con Napoleon III para convertirse en emperatriz regente de Francia, confidente de la reina Victoria y figura iconica de la Europa decimononica.