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The Frogs and the Lobsters

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170:. Because he speaks French, Hornblower acts as a liaison between British sailors and soldiers and the French royalist leaders. The French officer in charge of the royalist forces in the area, Colonel Marquis de Moncoutant, held feudal authority over the region prior to the revolution. He is obsessed with revenge and erects a guillotine, which he uses to summarily execute republican officials and supporters of the revolution. 173:
Hornblower incites de Moncoutant's wrath by standing up for the townspeople on multiple occasions. After saving a young boy from de Moncoutant, Hornblower meets his sister Mariette, a schoolteacher who is fluent in English. She and Hornblower fall in love, and Hornblower promises to protect her from
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to sail closer so the crew can reach the withdrawing troops, he throws off his coat and mans an oar to help maneuver the rescue boat near enough to shore for them to board. When Hornblower asks why they had to take part in a mission doomed to fail, Pellew reminds him that officers are duty-bound to
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Captain Pellew, who is in charge of the transports, believes the theft of the orders to be the work of French revolutionary spies and begs his superiors to call off the invasion, but they ignore him and the army sets off. While part of the force under Charette heads to Paris intending to raise an
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The revolutionaries begin looting and destroying the town, and Hornblower takes Mariette with him when he flees. Kennedy delays destroying the bridge in the hopes that Hornblower will return. Hornblower and Mariette nearly escape, but she is killed by revolutionary troops just before they cross.
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The main title is based on the often derogatory term for the French used by the British (as well as other English speakers) and on the red coats of the British soldiers. The secondary title deals with Horatio's own duty to the Crown and the alliance with the French and his struggle with his own
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Kennedy compels Hornblower to leave Mariette behind and cross with him. The bridge is then destroyed and Hornblower, his detachment, and the British troops conduct a disciplined retreat. After Pellew commands
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to power. He is supported by the British government, who provide Royal Navy vessels to ferry a combined expeditionary force of French royalist troops (the "frogs") and a contingent of British
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de Moncoutant's rampage. The French revolutionary forces counterattack, rout the royalists from Muzillac, and execute de Moncoutant with the same guillotine he used on them.
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is assigned to a small force that is ordered to cover a retreat by holding and, if necessary, blowing up the bridge near the town of
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is a royalist general who raises a force of French exiles to restore
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and very loosely based on the chapter of the same name in
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army on the way and then restore the monarchy under
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Index

Ioan Gruffudd
ITV
Hornblower
French Revolutionary Wars
C.S. Forester
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Quiberon expedition
François de Charette
the French king
redcoats
English Channel
Quiberon
Louis XVII
Horatio Hornblower
Muzillac
Ioan Gruffudd
Horatio Hornblower
Robert Lindsay
Sir Edward Pellew
Jamie Bamber
Jonathan Coy
Paul Copley
Sean Gilder
Peter Vaughan
Lord Hood
Samuel West
John Shrapnel
François de Charette
Antony Sher
Estelle Skornik

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