Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

By C. S. Forester

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

Description: 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.