Horatio Hornblower Series
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Napoleonic Wars era Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. The series began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return.
The chronological order of the action of the novels is as follows:
- Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1794-1798)
- Lieutenant Hornblower (1800-1803)
- Hornblower and the Hotspur (1803-1805)
- Hornblower During the Crisis (1805)
- Hornblower and the Atropos (1805-1808)
- Beat to Quarters (The Happy Return) (1808)
- Ship of the Line (1810)
- Flying Colours (1810-1811)
- Commodore Hornblower (1812)
- Lord Hornblower (1813-1814)
- Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1821-1823)