With demand for more stories, Forester filled in Hornblower's life story, in effect. The last completed novel was published in 1962. He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel, published in 1937. He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. At the center of each adventure is Hornblower, Forester's most inspired creation, whose blend of cautious preparation and spirited execution dazzles friend and foe alike. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Hornblower and the Crisis įiction, historical, seafaring, war, Napoleonic Wars Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton Writing under the pseudonym: Forester, C.
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