James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)
Stirling entered the Royal Navy at age 12, As a midshipman, he saw action in the Napoleonic Wars.  When he was 21, he was given command of the 28-gun sloop . In the War of 1812 between the US and the UK, The Brazen carried the news of the end of that war to Fort Bowyer. It also took the British troops that had captured the fort back to England.  When he ruturned to the West Indies, Stirling made two surveys of the Venezuelan coast. He reported on the information about of the Spanish government and local revolutionary factions. this information was later used by the British when dealing with these groups.