Successes & Failures of Lieutenant Hornblower from C.S. Forester's "Lieutenant Hornblower"

        In the novel Lieutenant Hornblower there were a a couple of(prenominal) scenes were Hornblower was a success and a few were he was a failure.         In my opinion the first success of Hornblower was when he prevail all the cannons on one side of the ship to forego them from the mud memory the ship. Another success was when Hornblower suggested a landing place place attack on Samana Bay. The commanding officer hold with his suggestion, and they put to foilher a landing party. Hornblower had the whole attack planed and the coordinates marked. His perplexity attack on the Spanish at Samana proved to be a success. Once the fort was taken over he was successful in firing rosy hot diaphysis at competitor ships, even without ever using that technique before. Then when the negotiation with the Spanish took place he had a brilliant idea to spring up a cardinal pound cannon at the upper end of the peninsula to blackball the Spanish fro m escaping. This enabled them to turn down the terms of the proposal that the Spanish extremityed and get what they wanted without giving anything to the Spanish. These achievements made by Hornblower is what subsequently earned him the command of the Retribution, although his command of the Retribution did not come until posterior when the war started again.         Hornblower had also had a few failures that hindered his successes. Among these was when Hornblower was using the red hot shot to sink rival ships. This was both a success and failure. It was a failure because afterwards heating the shot for a good long point of time the shot began to deform. This deformity of the shot wouldnt allow it to fusillade into the cannon. Hornblower agnize his mistake after one of the shots wouldnt fit into the cannon. This slowed their... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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