C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure
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In the novel Lieutenant Hornblower there were a few scenes were
Hornblower was a success and a few were he was a failure.
In my opinion the first success of Hornblower was when he used all the
cannons on one side of the ship to free them from the mud holding the ship.
Another success was when Horn ....
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.... wanted without giving anything to the Spanish. These achievements
made by Hornblower is what later earned him the command of the Retribution,
although his command of the Retribution did not come until later when the war
started again.
Hornblower had also had a few failures that hindered his successes.
Among these was when Hornblower was using the red hot shot to sink enemy ships.
This was both a success and failure. It was a failure because after heating the
shot for a considerably long ....
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