FICTIONAL English naval hero Horatio Hornblower was in fact based on a Scots admiral, it has been revealed. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...
The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...