num_pages: 344
description: 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-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament"-matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs.
language: English
title: Hornblower and the Hotspur
titlecomplete: Hornblower and the Hotspur
characters: Horatio Hornblower
genres: Maritime, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Military Fiction, Classics, War, British Literature, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 10623
places: Brest, Brittany, English Channel, Hampshire, England, Atlantic Ocean, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
series: Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, Hornblower Saga: Publication Order
publisher: Amereon Ltd