Horatio Hornblower - Rejoining The Fleet
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Horatio Hornblower - Rejoining The Fleet

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 14, 202619 min

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Stand by this Talbot Battery.

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Call our hands, beat the quarters. Hello, Prickers. Stand by this Talbot Battery. One broadside impure if you please, Captain Bush.

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Point is on target. Lin stops ready. I rise all ready. Fire!

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Presenting Michael Redgrave as C.S. Forester's indomitable man of the sea, Horatio Hornblower. It may seem absurd now that I should have dreaded to return to England, but in spite of my present years and honors, I am under no illusions as to the fickle nature of the public, and neither was I then.

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