β Scribed by C. S. Forester
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1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command οΏ½ As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His MajestyοΏ½s navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. With a character-forming duel, several chases and some strange tavern encounters, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea. This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. ForesterοΏ½s inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.
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1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command οΏ½ As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His MajestyοΏ½s navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay o
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The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined.Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafar
1813, and Horatio Hornblower is propelled toward the heart of the French Empire and his old enemy, Napoleon . . . Sir Horatio Hornblower has received strict and highly confidential orders from the highest rank: he must embark upon a grave and perilous mission to recapture the Flame in the Bay of Sei
The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafa