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May 1810 seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain HoratioHornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line the seventyfourgun HMS Sutherland which he deems the ugliest and least desirable twodeckerin the Navy List. Moreover she is 250 men short of a full crew so Hornblowermust enlist and train poachers bigamists sheepstealers and otherlandlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coastof Spain the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids againstthe French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms for bothcaptain and crew as the Sutherland singlehandedly takes on four French ships. «
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