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Lord Hornblower (published 1946) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester, originally intended to be the last in the series. [1] Hornblower is tasked with suppressing a mutiny on board a Royal Navy ship. [2] He succeeds, and with reinforcements captures Le Havre.
He began the series with Hornblower a captain in the first novel, The Happy Return, which was published in 1937, but demand for more stories led him to fill in Hornblower's life story, and he wrote novels detailing his rise from the rank of midshipman. The last completed novel was published in 1962.
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films and radio and television programmes, and C. Northcote Parkinson elaborated a "biography" of him, The True Story of Horatio Hornblower.
Hornblower is a Lord now, and thanks to some luck, he’d the occupying governor of Le Havre. Boney is on the run, and is defeated. But folks who pay attention know that Napoleon comes back with a vengeance.
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The novels, in chronological order. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2), Hornblower and the Hots...
Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith August 27 1899 – April 2, 1966, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic...
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Publication Order of Horatio Hornblower Non-Fiction Books. Horatio Hornblower is a protagonist character who poses as a navy officer in C .S. Forester’s Napoleonic Wars era series of novels. The character is later made a subject on various movies, television and radio programs.
