Biography captain horatio hornblower 1951

Protagonist of C. S. Forester's novels

Fictional character

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]

Forester's series about Hornblower tales began with the novel The Happy Return (US title: Beat to Quarters), published in Herein, Hornblower is a captain on a secret mission to Central America in Later stories fill out his career, starting with his unpromising beginning as a seasick midshipman.

As the Napoleonic Wars progress, he steadily gains promotion as a result of his skill and daring, despite his initial poverty and lack of influential friends. After surviving many adventures in a wide variety of locales, he rises to become Admiral of the Flee