Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
by C. S. Forester · January 1920
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1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command... As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's 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. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.
LiteratureFiction in EnglishFictionNaval HistorySea storiesNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815Fiction, action & adventureGreat britain, fictionHornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fictionPeninsular war, 1807-1814, fictionFiction, historicalHoratio Hornblower (Fictitious character)