In the TV series, Captain Sawyer is compared to Nelson by Hobbs in the episode Retribution.Īlthough it is often believed that Horatio Hornblower was named after Nelson, since he shared other traits (such as chronic seasickness) with him, Hornblower's first name came from the character of Horatio, from Hamlet. Goodreads Jump to ratings and reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book Hornblower and the Atropos Forester C. Hornblower's capture of the HMS Flame in Lord Hornblower is compared by the Morning Chronicle to Nelson's capture of the San Josef, although Hornblower considers the comparison "nonsense", as he thinks himself a "fortunate plodder" in comparison to Nelson. Hornblower and the Atropos by Forester C. In Flying Colours, Sir Thomas Hardy is mentioned as having a portrait of Nelson in his cabin. Publication date 1985 Topics Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character) - Fiction., Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. In A Ship of the Line, reference is made to Nelson's seasickness by Hornblower in an attempt to calm himself. In Hornblower and the Atropos, Hornblower is in charge of Nelson's funeral procession, with the HMS Atropos as flagship of the procession.īush compares Hornblower to Nelson in The Happy Return. He is mentioned in Hornblower and the Hotspur briefly. He died in 1966.While Nelson never appears as a living person, references are made to him in both the novels and the Hornblower TV series: However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him crippled.
On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect material for The Ship.
He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, and after leaving Guy's without a degree he turned to writing as a career. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was stationed as a government official. The title you have selected ( Hornblower and the Atropos ) is a post-1927 publication by an author who died more than 50 years ago.
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