# Mr Midshipman Hornblower

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- Authors: [C. S. Forester](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-s-forester)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-10-05

## Description

1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command … As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty’s navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. With a character-forming duel, several chases and some strange tavern encounters, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea. This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester’s inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.

## Editions

### Mr Midshipman Hornblower

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4195-917-7
- Published: 2006-10-05
- Language: en_GB