Who wrote the Hornblower novels?
Hornblower in the West Indies promotion to Hornblower until the mid-1830s or later. Hornblower in the West Indies Hornblower in the West Indies, or alternately Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, is one of the novels in the series that C. S. Forester wrote about fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower. All the other novels in the series take place during the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France; this one, however, takes place when Britain is at peace, May 1821 – October 1823. Hornblower has been promoted rear-admiral and has been named in command of the West Indies station (i.e., the Caribbean) with a squadron
Hornblower in the West Indies schooners. It is the last Hornblower novel chronologically, although at least one short story (The Last Encounter) is set after the events in this novel. Like some other Hornblower novels, Forester wrote it in the form of several novellas that can be read independently. Hornblower raises his flag in the schooner HMS "Crab" and pays a courtesy call at New Orleans. There, he learns of a plot by Napoleon's most loyal followers to liberate him from his exile on the isolated island of St Helena. Hornblower intercepts their ship, the "Daring", but is powerless to stop them by force; with