Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order #8
Flying Colours
C.S. Forester
spoilers follow
Brave and noble it was for an Admiral 20 miles distant to order a captain to engage 4 enemy while the ship that relayed the message sits idly by and watches. The destruction of his ship and the loss of his men unconscionable to me.
So we find Hornblower in enemy prison while his men rot away uncared for and ill-fed. Well the 4 enemy ships are out of commission.
Proving the wisdom of picking the crewman with the biggest biceps for his manservant when the carriage transporting him runs off the road at night in a snow storm Brown uses his 200 lbs to lay out their captor and the trio escape in a row boat on a river. He had to or there wouldn't have been volumes 9-11.
After 4 months restive repose comes a leisurely drift down the Loire to the Sea. There the trio purloin a captured English prize ship and put to sea with a dozen galley slaves as crew. As the story ends our Captain, his Lieutenant Bush and manservant Brown have an HEA.
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