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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.
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
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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Jan 1, 2001 · Ever since C. S. Forester's fictional hero Horatio Hornblower began to delight readers, there has been speculation as to whether his adventures were based on the career of a real naval officer. Several names were suggested, but the general conclusion was that Hornblower was a composite character.
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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.
Horatio Hornblower was an officer in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Clever, but unhappy for most of his life, he found fame and fortune as a hero of the Navy. Hornblower, the son of a doctor, was born on 4 July 1776 (the date of the adoption of the United States Declaration of...
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.
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