Title: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
First published: January 1920
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 seasickness, 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.
Subjects: Literature, Fiction in English, Fiction, Naval History, Sea stories, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Fiction, action & adventure, Great britain, fiction, Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction, Peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction, Fiction, historical, Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character), Midshipmen, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, sea stories, Children's fiction, Hornblower, Horatio (Personnage fictif), Romans, nouvelles
Places: Great Britain
People: Horatio Hornblower, Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character), Midshipmen
Time periods: 18th century, Napoleonic Wars, 1793, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, 19th century