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The Happy Return ( Beat to Quarters in the US) is the first of the Horatio Hornblower novels by C. S. Forester. It was published in 1937. The American title is derived from the expression "beat to quarters", which was the signal to prepare for combat.
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In June of 1808 Hornblower is in command of the 36-gun frigate HMS Lydia, with orders to sailing to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua and supply a local landowner, Don Julian Alvarado, with muskets and powder. Don Julian is ready to revolt against the Spanish (at this point allied with Napoleon). Upon meeting with the man however, Hornblower discovers...
The first half of the 1951 motion picture adaptation Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., was based on The Happy Return, with minor changes mostly done by C. S. Forester himself. The film starred Gregory Peck as Hornblower, Virginia Mayo as Lady Barbara, Robert Beatty as Mr. Bush, and Alec Mangoas El Supremo.
Characters: 1. First Lieutenant William Bush 2. Captain Horatio Hornblower 3. El Supremo 4. Lady Barbara Wellesley 5. Maid Hebe 6. Coxswain Brown 7. Manuel Hernandez 8. Hankey 9. Harrison 10. Laurie 11. Third Lieutenant Donald Galbraith 12. Polwheal 13. Clay Vessels: HMS Lydia - Natividad
- C. S. Forester
- Michael Joseph, London
- 1937
- 4 min
Forester's series about Hornblower tales began with the novel The Happy Return (US title: Beat to Quarters ), published in 1937. Herein, Hornblower is a captain on a secret mission to Central America in 1808. Later stories fill out his career, starting with his unpromising beginning as a seasick midshipman.
- C. S. Forester
- "The Last Encounter" (1967)
- The Happy Return (1937)
4.28. 11,370 ratings478 reviews. June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua, a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the ...
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