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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.
Captain Horatio Hornblower is a 1951 British naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester 's Horatio Hornblower novels: The Happy Return (1937), A Ship of ...
6 January 2003. (2003-01-06) Hornblower is a series of British historical fiction war television films based on three of C. S. Forester 's ten novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The series ran from 7 October 1998 until 6 January 2003, with Ioan ...
Followed by. A Ship of the Line. (1938) The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters in the US) is the first of the Horatio Hornblower novels by C. S. Forester. It was published in 1937. The American title is derived from the expression "beat to quarters", which was the signal to prepare for combat. This book is sixth by internal chronology of the series ...
0-14-001116-1. OCLC. 16550230. Preceded by. Flying Colours (1938) Followed by. Lord Hornblower (1946) The Commodore (published 1945) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. It was published in the United States under the title Commodore Hornblower.
A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester.It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line.By internal chronology, A Ship of the Line, which follows The Happy Return, is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished Hornblower and the Crisis).
Horatio Hornblower. Articles relating to the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, and to books and screen adaptations featuring him.
Hornblower and the Crisis. (1967) Followed by. The Happy Return. (1937) Hornblower and the Atropos is a 1953 historical novel by C.S. Forester. Horatio Hornblower is posted to HMS Atropos, the smallest vessel in the Royal Navy that merits command by a post-captain, as he salvages treasure from the Mediterranean Sea.