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      • Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester.
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  2. Richard Hornblower. Nationality. British. Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films and radio and television programmes, and C. Northcote Parkinson elaborated a "biography" of him, The ...

  3. The biography led many to believe that Hornblower was a real person, including one researcher who travelled all the way from Canada to see the ‘Hornblower Papers’ at the National Maritime Museum in London. You can imagine his disappointment when he found that no such papers existed!

  4. Horatio Hornblower, fictional character, a British naval officer who is the hero of 12 books (mostly novels) by C.S. Forester that are set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

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  5. Jan 28, 2020 · Lieutenant Gerard: Hornblower's second lieutenant. Real people in the Horatio Hornblower books: Napoleon, King George, Captain Edward Pellew, Admiral William Cornwallis, Lord St. Vincent, British Foreign Secretary the Marquess Wellesley, Russian Czar Alexander I, Minister Anthony Merry, Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz, Military Governor ...

  6. Horatio Hornblower was an officer in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Clever, but unhappy for most of his life, he found fame and fortune as a hero of the Navy.

  7. Jan 1, 1970 · As a fan of this genre of fiction I now find myself really embarrassed to admit not knowing that Hornblower was a real person. I always thought him a fictional character that may have been based on a real person just as O'Brian's Capt. Jack Aubrey was based on Cochrane.

  8. Oct 10, 1999 · A recent biography of Admiral Sir James Gordon has claimed that he provides the ‘matrix’ for Hornblowers career (Bryan Perrett, The Real Hornblower, 1998). It appears, however, that the author’s clinching argument for his theory is that Hornblowers absence from a particular campaign (on the Potomac in 1812) is proof of its correctness.

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