Lieutenant Hornblower
The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young señorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.
About the Hornblower Saga Series
Books in series order
- 1.Mr Midshipman Hornblower(1950)
- 2.Lieutenant Hornblower(1952)
- 3.Hornblower and the Hotspur(1962)
- 4.Hornblower and the Crisis(1967)
- 5.Hornblower and the Atropos(1953)
- 6.The Happy Return(1937)
- 7.A Ship of the Line(1938)
- 8.Flying Colours(1938)
- 9.Commodore Hornblower(1945)
- 10.Lord Hornblower(1946)
- 11.Hornblower in the West Indies(1957)
- +Hornblower Companion(1964)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
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. In 1793, on the eve of the Napoleon Wars, the young Midshipman receives his first command...
Please Note: The Hornblower Saga is presented here in order of the narrative's chronology rather than the order in which the books were published.

