Jack Aubrey
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| Jack Aubrey | |
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| First appearance | Master and Commander |
| Last appearance | The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Sailor |
| Title | Admiral |
| Relationships | Sophie Aubrey |
| Children | Charlotte, Fanny, George |
| Relatives | Several |
| Episode count | 20/21 |
| Portrayed by | Russel Crowe |
| Created by | Patrick O'Brian |
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 flying a rear admiral's flag. He starts as a lieutenant, depressed, poor and without a ship until he is given his first command: a fourteen-gun brig-rigged sloop, HM Sloop Sophie.
Most of his naval battles and adventures are drawn from actual Royal Navy history; several of his exploits and reverses are directly 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.
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