Jack Aubrey
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Jack Aubrey is a fictional character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. The series portrays his rise from Lieutenant to Admiral in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The twenty (and almost twenty-one) book series encompasses Aubrey's adventures and various commands along his course to Admiralty. He starts as a lieutenant, depressed and poor until he is given his first command: a fourteen-gun sloop, the HMS Sophie.
Many of his exploits and reverses are based on the chequered career of Thomas Cochrane. O'Brian is said to have pictured his friend, actor Charlton Heston as Aubrey.
Aubrey is played by Russell Crowe in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
