"Captain Horatio Hornblower was reading a smudgy proof which the printers had just sent round to his lodgings. 'To all Young Men of Spirit,' he read. 'Seamen, Landsmen, and Boys, who wish to strike a blow for Freedom and to cause the Corsican tyrant to wish that he had never dared the Wrath of these British Isles.'" And so begins Captain Horatio Hornblower: Ship Of The Line Volume ll.

(Key Words: Fiction, Literature, Naval, Sea, Horatio Hornblower, Maritime, English Literature, C.S. Forester).