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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

by C. S. Forester Book 11 in the Hornblower Saga series.

First published 1958

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In the early 1820s Rear-Admiral Hornblower commands Britain’s West Indies station. Across linked episodes he confronts a Bonapartist rescue plot, slavery and the slave trade, piracy, Simón Bolívar’s independence struggle and a destructive hurricane, showing how political unrest continues after the Napoleonic Wars.

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Ancient Rome753 BCE–476 CE Bourbon Restoration in France1814–1830 CE

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Napoleon1769–1821 Simón Bolívar1783–1830

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