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Beat to Quarters

Beat to Quarters

by C.S. Forester
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About this book

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 Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780316289320
ISBN10 0316289329
Series/Work OL1937761W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Back Bay Books
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Fiction Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Fiction, war & military History, Naval Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character) Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction Naval History Open Library Staff Picks Peninsular War, 1807-1814

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