Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 5th Baronet was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars whose service continued until his death in command of the Channel Fleet from apoplexy in 1812. During his service, Cotton saw action off the Eastern Seaboard of the Thirteen Colonies and later at the Glorious First of June. Cotton's most influential service was in 1809 when he planned and executed the evacuation of thousands of British soldiers from Corunna after the disastrous collapse of the land campaign under Sir John Moore.
- Occupation
- naval officer, soldier
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- June 1753, 1758
