Hornblower in the West Indies, or alternately Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, is one of the novels in the series that C. S. Forester wrote about...
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edition called Admiral Hornblower to fill out the series. Commodore Hornblower, Lord Hornblower, and Hornblower in the West Indies were also compiled into...
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Lord Hornblower (published 1946) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester, originally intended to be the last in the series. Hornblower is...
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Ship of the Line by C. S. Forester) Clam (from Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester) Clorinda (from Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S....
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Drogue (section In fiction)
used. In Hornblower in the West Indies by C. S. Forester, a drogue is secretly made up at night by Hornblower's crew and covertly attached to the rudder...
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C. S. Forester (category Civil servants in the Ministry of Information (United Kingdom))
Published in the US as Commodore Hornblower 1946 Lord Hornblower. Michael Joseph. 1958 Hornblower in the West Indies. Michael Joseph. Published in the US as...
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Bomb vessel (section In fiction)
officers, rather than the Royal Marine Artillery which had been formed for this specific purpose. A later book, Hornblower in the West Indies, features a small...
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the tune being played by a band of the Royal Marines, along with the first few bars of "Rule Britannia". Chapter 3 of Hornblower in the West Indies opens...
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Ship camel (category Water transport in the Netherlands)
C. S. (31 May 1990). Admiral Hornblower: Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord Hornblower, Hornblower in the West Indies. Penguin UK. ISBN 9780141959146...
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The General is a 1936 novel authored by writer C. S. Forester. Known for his Horatio Hornblower novels and 1935's The African Queen, Forester attempted...
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Val Biro (category Hungarian emigrants to the United Kingdom)
Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, Hornblower and the Atropos, Hornblower in the West Indies and Randall and the River of Time. In 1965 for Hamish...
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Fleming – Dr. No C. S. Forester – Hornblower in the West Indies Carlos Fuentes – Where the Air Is Clear (first published in Spanish as La región más transparente)...
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Mutiny (2001 film) (redirect from Hornblower mutiny)
is the fifth episode of the British film series Hornblower. It was released on April 8, 2001. It is based on the 1952 book Lieutenant Hornblower by C...
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François Antoine Lallemand (category Generals of the First French Empire)
liberate Napoleon from exile in St. Helena in the first episode of Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies. He is a minor character in Eric Flint's alternate...
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44-gun frigate in 1795 and broken up in 1816. This was the ship popularised by C. S. Forester in the early volumes of his Hornblower series of novels...
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"Hornblower and the Widow McCool" is a short story by C. S. Forester featuring his fictional naval hero Horatio Hornblower. It was first published in the...
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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (category Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
with the West Indies. In 1786, Collingwood returned to England, where, with the exception of a voyage to the West Indies, he remained until 1793. In that...
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Pierre Cambronne (category Commanders in the French Imperial Guard)
"St. Elizabeth of Hungary". Hornblower discovers Cambronne in the West Indies engaged in an attempt to rescue Napoleon from Saint Helena. Cambronne's...
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James Robertson Justice (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) as Seaman Quist David and Bathsheba (1951) as Abishai Anne of the Indies (1951) as Red Dougal The Lady Says No (1952)...
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James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
HMS Seahorse in September 1812, escorting convoys for the West Indies and enforcing the blockade of France. In 1814 she transferred to the American station...
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Royal Navy (redirect from The Royal Navy)
Indies and China Station (1832–1865); East Indies Station (1865–1913); Egypt and East Indies Station (1913–1918); East Indies Station (1918–1941). In...
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HMS Renown (1798) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
through a hatch in mysterious circumstances, and the junior officers must take over on adventures in the West Indies. In Hornblower (TV series) this...
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Jérôme Bonaparte (category French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
career in the French navy that nearly escalated into war with Britain over an incident in the West Indies, and his selfish concerns that led to the deaths...
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William Cornwallis (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. He is depicted in the Horatio Hornblower novel, Hornblower and the Hotspur. His affectionate...
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James Lucas Yeo (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
placed in command of the 16-gun sloop Albacore. He was made lieutenant permanently on 20 February 1797. The vessel was deployed to the West Indies, where...
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Battle of Trafalgar (redirect from The battle of Trafalgar)
the Atlantic, he set off in pursuit. He missed them by just days in the West Indies as a result of false information. Having lured the British to the...
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Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (redirect from The Earl of Dundonald and Marquess of Maranhão)
19th- and 20th-century novelists, particularly the fictional characters C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey. Thomas Cochrane...
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Jeremiah Coghlan (category Irish officers in the Royal Navy)
compared to Hornblower because they were both protégés of Sir Edward Pellew aboard HMS Indefatigable. From May 1804 he served in the West Indies, returning...
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supertanker in The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977 Love Nest – whaling ship in the 1923 Buster Keaton film The Love Nest, 1923 HMS Lydia – Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951...
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Wars and very loosely based on the chapter of the same name in C. S. Forester's novel, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and on the actual ill-fated Quiberon expedition...
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