{"id":4953,"date":"2018-05-21T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2023-01-20T03:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:33:03","slug":"hornblower-and-the-hotspur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerslibrary.org\/?p=4953","title":{"rendered":"Hornblower and the Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hornblower and the Hotspur<\/a><\/strong>, by Cecil Scott Forester – <\/span>
\n[pseudonym of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith]<\/span><\/p>\n

Horatio Hornblower, #3<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Published: 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

Maps:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Map 11<\/strong> \u2013 Approaches to Brest \u2013 April, 1803 to July, 1805
\n(1) 6 degrees W. longitude: opening of sealed orders.
\n(2) Sighting of the DEUX FR\u00c8RES.
\n(3) HOTSPUR’s usual patrol route.
\n(4) Peacetime encounter with the LOIRE.
\n(5) and (6) Positions of HOTSPUR and LOIRE respectively at wartime encounter.
\n(7) Disablement of the LOIRE.
\n(8) Encounter with French coasters.
\n(9) Dinner on board the TONNANT.
\n(10) Landing jetty for shore expedition.
\n(11) Location of signal station.
\n(12) Location of battery.
\n(13) Encampment of French troops.
\n(14) First meeting with French transports.
\n(15) First transport grounded here.
\n(16) Two transports grounded here (on Les Fillettes).
\n(17) Encounter with fourth transport and French frigate.
\n(18) GRASSHOPPER dismasted.
\n(19) Mobile battery.
\n(20) HIBERNIA’s usual station.<\/p>\n

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Map 12<\/strong> \u2013 HOTSPUR’s Track to Tor Bay – October, 1803
\n(1) Encounter with NAIAD.
\n(2) Course altered to put wind on port quarter.
\n(3) Sounding taken here.<\/p>\n

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Map 13<\/strong> \u2013 Patrol Area of Moore’s Squadron off Cape St. Vincent \u2013 September, 1804
\n(1) Patrol area of Moore’s squadron.
\n(2) HOTSPUR sights F\u00c9LICIT\u00c9.
\n(3) HOTSPUR disabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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