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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.
The 1941 film That Hamilton Woman starring Vivien Leigh as Emma and Laurence Olivier as Horatio. [42] Leigh took publicity photos for the film arranged in poses very similar to paintings of Emma. [43] The film is said to have been a favourite of Winston Churchill. The 1951 opera Nelson (opera) by Lennox Berkeley. The 1953 Soviet film Attack ...
Born in a house rented by Sir William Hamilton (Emma's husband) at 23 Piccadilly in London, as Nelson was at anchor in Torbay preparing to sail to the Battle of Copenhagen (news reached him before he set sail), she was given to a wet nurse called Mrs. Gibson, who was informed that the child, about a week old, was born six weeks earlier, at a time when Emma was in Vienna.
Pirates kidnap Hornblower and his young secretary Spendlove and take them to their hideout near Montego Bay, in an attempt to extort a pardon for themselves. They send Hornblower with their demand, keeping Spendlove as hostage. Hornblower feels honour-bound to return to secure Spendlove's release, but finds the resourceful secretary has escaped.
C. S. Forester confided that he had written the concluding Hornblower story but that it was under secure storage: "locked in my publisher's vault as a legacy to my wife and sons". John Forester confirmed that this was "The Last Encounter", subsequently published in May 1966 following his father's death the previous month. [2]
Stranded on shore Hornblower takes the opportunity to spend three days with Maria. Hornblower is then ordered to take Jérôme-Napoléon to France and to transfer his wife Betsy to another ship that will take her home to her father in America. Hornblower orders Doughty to make the couple a good meal.
In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower is given command of the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia and tasked with a secret mission to Central America: he is to provide arms and support to a local warlord, Don Julian Alvarado, who has organized a rebellion against the colonial authorities of Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France.
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.