# The Happy Return

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

## Description

June, 1808 – and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full … Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies with a mad and messianic revolutionary, El Supremo; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and ‘to take, sink, burn or destroy’ the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad – or face court-martial. And as if that wasn’t hard enough, Hornblower must also contend with the charms of an unwanted passenger: Lady Barbara Wellesley … This is the fifth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester’s inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.

## Editions

### The Happy Return

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4195-936-8
- Published: 2006-10-05
- Language: en_GB