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Lord Hornblower

by C. S. Forester Book 5 in the Hornblower Saga series.

First published 1981

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With Napoleon apparently defeated, Hornblower is sent to suppress a mutiny aboard a British ship whose crew has turned against its brutal captain and carried the vessel to France. The mission forces him to balance naval discipline against his knowledge that the deposed commander is a tyrant. As political events revive the Napoleonic threat, Hornblower is drawn into operations on the French coast where personal honour and national duty become increasingly difficult to separate.

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Napoleonic Era1792–1815 CE

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