C.S. Foresters Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure
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| Term Paper Title | C.S. Foresters Lieutenant Hornblower: Success And Failure |
| # of Words | 405 |
| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 1.62 |
C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success and Failure
C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower: Success and Failure
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 Hornblower suggested a landing attack on Samana Bay.
The commanding officer agreed with his suggestion, and they put together a
landing party. Hornblower had the whole attack planed and the coordinates
marked. His surprise attack on the Spanish at Samana proved to be a success.
Once the fort was taken over he was successful in firing red hot shot at enemy
ships, even without ever using that technique before. Then when the negotiation
with the Spanish took place he had a brilliant idea to mount a nine pound cannon
at the upper end of the peninsula to prevent the Spanish from escaping. This
enabled them to turn down the terms of the proposal that the Spanish wanted and
get what they wanted without giving anything to the Spanish. These achievements
made by Hornblower is what later earned him the command
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