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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.
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Hornblower and the Atropos was replaced by Hornblower and the Hotspur in later UK editions of The Young Hornblower. Hornblower and the Atropos, The Happy Return, and A Ship of the Line were compiled into one omnibus edition, called Captain Hornblower.
The character was perhaps most famously played by Gregory Peck in the film Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951). Beginning with Horatio Hornblower: The Duel (1998), Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd played Hornblower in a series of made-for-television movies.
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The biography led many to believe that Hornblower was a real person, including one researcher who travelled all the way from Canada to see the ‘Hornblower Papers’ at the National Maritime Museum in London.
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. Sequels continued his story as he found love, promotion and worldly success.
Jan 1, 1970 · As a fan of this genre of fiction I now find myself really embarrassed to admit not knowing that Hornblower was a real person. I always thought him a fictional character that may have been based on a real person just as O'Brian's Capt. Jack Aubrey was based on Cochrane.
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Aug 23, 2016 · Perhaps the greatest sailor in British literature, Horatio Hornblower was the creation of C.S. Forester and his first adventure, The Happy Return, in - British History, British TV, Featured.
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester, and later the subject of films and television programs.
