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| The next four novels: ''[[A Ship of the Line]]; [[Flying Colours]]; [[Commodore Hornblower]]''; and ''[[Lord Hornblower]]'', were written chronologically. ''Lord Hornblower'' ends with Hornblower learning that Bonaparte has had his final defeat at the [[Battle of Waterloo]]. | | The next four novels: ''[[A Ship of the Line]]; [[Flying Colours]]; [[Commodore Hornblower]]''; and ''[[Lord Hornblower]]'', were written chronologically. ''Lord Hornblower'' ends with Hornblower learning that Bonaparte has had his final defeat at the [[Battle of Waterloo]]. |
| An additional five novels were written out of order: ''[[Mr Midshipman Hornblower]]''; ''[[Lieutenant Hornblower]]''; ''[[Hornblower and the Crisis]]; [[Hornblower and the Hotspur]]; [[Hornblower and the Atropos]];'' and ''[[Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies]]''. | | An additional five novels were written out of order: ''[[Mr Midshipman Hornblower]]''; ''[[Lieutenant Hornblower]]''; ''[[Hornblower and the Crisis]]; [[Hornblower and the Hotspur]]; [[Hornblower and the Atropos]];'' and ''[[Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies]]''. |
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| ''Mr Midshipman Hornblower'' is set during the mid 1790s.
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| Much of this novel takes place while Hornblower serves in the large [[frigate]] [[HMS Resolution]], a real vessel, under [[Captain]] [[Baronet|Sir]] [[Edward Pellew]] a real officer with a very distinguished career.
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| ''Lieutenant Hornblower'' is set in the West Indies, in 1801, and in Portsmouth, in 1803, and ends with Hornblower being promoted to [[Commander]], and given command of one of the first [[ship-sloop]]s to be mobilized as the [[Peace of Amiens]] broke down. This is the novel where he meets William Bush, who is to become his second in command of every vessel he commanded, except the [[HMS Atropos]].
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| ''Hornblower and the Hotspur'' is set off the coast of Brittany in 1803, 1804 and 1805. Hornblower's vessel the small ship-sloop [[HMS Hotspur]] is part of the force blockading the port of [[Brest]], France's main naval port. Hornblower again serves under his old mentor Sir Edward Pellew, commander of the Inshore Squadron, and indirectly, under Sir William Cornwallis, Commander of the Channel Fleet. The novel ends with Hornblower's promotion to [[Post Captain]].
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| ''Hornblower and the Crisis'' is the last novel Forester started, and was unfinished when he died. It was published in incomplete form, with three short stories about Hornblower.
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| ''Hornblower and the Atropos'' is set in 1805. It starts with Hornblower, his wife and young son traveling, by barge, to take up command of HMS Atropos, a 22 gun [[ship-sloop]] and [[sixth rate]], in London. When he arrives in [[London]] he is assigned the task of managing the fleet of funeral barges that will take the body of [[Horatio Nelson]] from [[Greenwich]] to [[Westminster]]. Following this he is assigned a secret mission to take a salvage expert from the [[East India Company]] and his team of [[Sinhalese]] divers to salvage bullion from a sunken vessel.
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| ''The Happy Return'', also published as ''Beat to Quarters'' in the [[United States]] takes place in 1809, in the [[Pacific]]. This novel introduces [[Lady (honorific)|Lady]] Barbara Wellesley, the (fictional) youngest sibling of [[Richard Wellesley]], the [[Earl of Mornington]], and Sir [[Arthur Wellesley]].
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| ''A Ship of the Line'' is set in 1810. He is posted to command the 74 gun [[third rate]] [[Ship of the Line]] [[HMS Sutherland]], serving under the command of Sir [[Arthur Leighton]]. Hornblower is the most junior Captain in a squadron that is cruise in the Eastern [[Mediterranean]]. Hornbl
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| The novel ends with Hornblower sacrificing his ship, while crippling many ships in a French squadron, allowing the rest of his squadron to catch up and fully destroy the French squadron. The French squadron is destroyed, but his crew suffers many casualties, including his [[First Lieutenant]] William Bush, who loses a leg.
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| ''Flying Colours'' is set in 1810 and 1811. Hornblower, Bush and his coxswain Brown are to be sent by Coach to face a Kangaroo Court in Paris. They escape, and steal a boat, and eventually are befriended by a gracious French land-owner and the widow of one of his sons. When Bush is sufficiently recovered, they pretend to be French officers, proceed to the mouth of the Loire, where they free some English prisoners of war, and commandeer a capture British cutter, [[HMS Witch of Endor]]. When he returns to Britain he learns that both Leighton is dead, and so is his first wife. Lady Barbara has taken his infant son Richard under her care.
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| ''Commodore Hornblower'' is set in 1812. Hornblower has been knighted, and has married Lady Barbara. He is financially comfortable for the first time, and has purchased a country estate. Hornblower's new brother-in-law Richard Wellesley, the Earl of Mornington, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, assign Hornblower a small squadron, which plays a key role in bringing Russia in as an ally of Britain. Hornblower meets the [[Czar]] and [[Carl von Clausewitz]], and plays a key role in the [[Seige of Riga]].
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