Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

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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.

subjects: Literature,  Fiction in English,  Fiction,  Naval History,  Sea stories,  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815,  Fiction, action & adventure,  Great britain, fiction,  Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction,  Peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character),  Midshipmen,  Large type books,  Fiction, historical, general,  Fiction, sea stories,  Children's fiction

People: Horatio Hornblower,  Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character),  Midshipmen

Places: Great Britain

Times: 18th century,  Napoleonic Wars,  1793,  Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815