Hornblower and the "Hotspur"
Histoire navale
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
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Great britain, fiction
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April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower -- who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy -- commands the three-mast…
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