A Ship of the Line (1938)
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A Ship of the Line

A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester. It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line. By internal chronology, A Ship of the Line, which follows The Happy Return, is the seventh book in the series . However, the book, published in 1938, was the second Hornblower novel completed by Forester. It is one of three Hornblower novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N..
That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.
A Ship of the Line (1938)