C. S. Forester

Hornblower in the West Indies, or alternately Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies is one of the novels in the series CS Forester wrote about fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower. All the other novels in the series take place...

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...paternal feeling by Hornblower toward junior officers. The historical accuracy of this book is limited: Forester later wrote that he did not know what British naval forces, if any, were engaged at the siege of Riga. The date of publication...

In this article: Horatio Hornblower, The Commodore, Russia, Riga, Typhus, and Carl von Clausewitz

...around to find out, I suppose, if I hadn't liked him so much." After they spoke, Meyer saw the connection between "Star Trek" and C.S. Forrester's novels about the English sea captain Horatio Hornblower. Having enjoyed those books as a...

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...include German philosopher Georg Hegel in 1770; novelist Theodore Dreiser in 1871; English automaker Charles Rolls in 1877; novelist C.S. Forester in 1899; Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States, in 1908; Nobel Peace Prize...

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...Rifles" by Bernard Cornwell. I confess I'm one of those people who has a soft spot for the Napoleonic Wars. I began with C.S. Forrester's books about Horatio Hornblower's adventures in the British Navy, then graduated to Patrick...

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C. S. Forester's book The General is a short novel about an ordinary British Army officer in the Great War, or World War I. Forester is best known for his famous series of Horatio Hornblower novels which he began in 1937; few of his other...

In this article: The General, British Army, World War I, Horatio Hornblower, Adolf Hitler, and Second Boer War

...his classic and widely read historical novel "The Commodore," written in the early 1940s during World War II, British writer C.S. Forester even had his famous British naval officer hero Captain Horatio Hornblower fall victim to the typhus but...

In this article: Typhus, Napoleon Bonaparte, Europe, Nobel Prize for Medicine, World War II, War of 1812, Book of Revelation, and Rickettsia prowazekii

...sat for Wenlock (with gaps) from 1758 to 1790, when he was replaced by his cousin and heir, Cecil, later 1st Baron Forester. Cecil Forester, the younger brother of Brooke Forester, held the same seat from 1761 to 1768, during a gap in...

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...restored and his status as one of Britain's greatest naval heroes finally recognised. His life inspired the Hornblower stories by C S Forester and later formed the fictional career of Jack Aubrey in the books by Patrick O'Brian. "He...

In this article: James Brooke, Britain, God, Tin, Battle of Britain, and 2nd World War

...fly, and fought valiantly. He was wounded and, in 1942, was posted to Washington as an air attache, where he met the British novelist C.S. Forester, who was trying to boost support for Britain as America geared up for war. Forester proposed...

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