The Happy Return

Download or read book The Happy Return written by Cecil Scott Forester and published by Ulverscroft Collections. This book was released on 2019 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1808: In the South Sea sails H.M.S. LYDIA, a thirty-six-gun frigate under the command of Captain Horatio Hornblower. Having received orders to spark a rebellion in the Spanish American colonies, he must form an alliance with Don Julian Alvarado and help him rise against the Spanish monarchy; open up a route for British commerce across the isthmus between the bay of Fonseca and the river San Juan; and 'take, sink, burn or destroy' the fifty-gun NATIVIDAD. As if that wasn't enough, Hornblower must also contend with the charms of an unexpected and unwanted passenger: Lady Barbara Wellesley...