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The year is 1793, and England is once again at war. For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities with France means a fresh command and the chance for action after months of inactivity.Tags
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The second Bolitho novel (in publication order) offers plenty of adventures in 1793 despite Bolitho being sent to tasks that shouldn't really involve that much fighting.
Bolitho sent to island off coast of France, then to aid English attack on Touloun. Miss Seton chooses Bolitho.
JUNE 1793, GIBRALTAR
The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power of her fleet.
For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities means a fresh command and the chance of action after long months of inactivity. However, his mission to support Lord Hood in the monarchist-inspired occupation of Toulon has gone awry. Bolitho and the crew of the Hyperion are trapped by the French near a dry Mediterranean island. The great ship-of-the-line's battered hull begins to groan as her sails snap in the hot wind.
The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power of her fleet.
For Richard Bolitho, the renewal of hostilities means a fresh command and the chance of action after long months of inactivity. However, his mission to support Lord Hood in the monarchist-inspired occupation of Toulon has gone awry. Bolitho and the crew of the Hyperion are trapped by the French near a dry Mediterranean island. The great ship-of-the-line's battered hull begins to groan as her sails snap in the hot wind.
Jan 6, 2010 (Edited)Dutch
Gibraltar, junio de 1793. El creciente empuje de la Revolución Francesa amenaza con sumir a Europa en otra guerra sangrienta. Bolitho es enviado a aguas del Mediterráneo, donde deberá apoyar a la flota española que lucha en el sur de Francia.
Nov 4, 2022Spanish
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- Canonical title
- Form Line of Battle!
- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- Richard Bolitho (captain); John Allday (coxswain); Ernest Quarme (lieutenant); Sir Philip Rooke (lieutenant); Lord Samuel Hood (admiral); Francis Inch (lieutenant) (show all 19); Sir William Moresby (vice-admiral); Don Francisco Anduaga (spanish admiral); Nancy Bolitho; Matthew Dash (captain); Sir Edmund Pomfret (rear-admiral); Cheney Seton; Sir Torquil Cobban (colonel); Thomas Herrick (lieutenant); Rupert Seton (midshipman); Don Joaquin Salgado (spanish colonel); Thomas Herrick (captain); Hugh Bolitho; Cheney Bolitho
- Important places
- Gibraltar; Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; Golfe du Lion; Cozar Island; Saint-Clar, Occitanie, France; Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK
- First words
- The frigate Harvester, nine days outward bound from Spithead, turned easily into the gentle offshore breeze and dropped anchor, the echoes of her gun salute reverberating and grumbling around the towering wall of Gibraltar's ... (show all)unchanging rock.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He downed the brandy in one gulp and walked slowly out of the door whistling an old tune, the name of which he had long forgotten.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .K369 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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