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Form Line of Battle!
First published 1969
In June 1793, Richard Bolitho arrives at Gibraltar to command the ageing seventy-four-gun Hyperion as war resumes with Revolutionary France. He joins the British occupation of Toulon, where royalist hopes and coalition politics are already collapsing under French pressure.
Bolitho is more comfortable commanding a frigate than manoeuvring a slow ship of the line, but Hyperion must endure blockade duty, coastal fighting and a retreat from a failing campaign. Trapped near the enemy coast and outnumbered, he must bring an exhausted crew into the line of battle and force a way out.
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