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Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films and radio and television programmes, and C. Northcote Parkinson elaborated a "biography" of him, The True Story of Horatio Hornblower. [1]
Jan 1, 1970 · Many know of Horatio Hornblower's exploits during the Napoleonic Wars through the novels of C.S. Forester, but how many know the true Hornblower – the man who rose from midshipman to admiral of the British Fleet?
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Oct 10, 1999 · C.S. Forester’s fictional sailor of the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Horatio Hornblower, was an immediate success when he first appeared in 1937, in The Happy Return.
Hornblower is not based on an actual person but inspired by a variety of naval events and officers. Author C.S Forester got the idea for Hornblower after reading the Naval Chronicle, the Royal Navy’s magazine of the early 19th century. Based on real events.
Horatio Hornblower, fictional character, a British naval officer who is the hero of 12 books (mostly novels) by C.S. Forester that are set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Hornblower is a series of British historical fiction war television films based on of C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower. Written by C. Northcote Parkinson Review by Eileen Charbonneau. This “biography” of C.S. Forester’s famous fictional naval hero, written in 1970, is back in print in this new, handsome trade paper edition.
