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Battle Against El Supremo

Horatio Hornblower · July 28, 1952 · 22 min · 1,355 words

The transcript of “Battle Against El Supremo”, an episode of Horatio Hornblower first broadcast July 28, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Horatio Hornblower plays Horatio Hornblower free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Call all hands, speak to quarters, and buy this tablet better. One broadside into it, you please, Captain Bush. Point yourself on target, please stop ready. I'm Michael Redgrave, I see as far as there's indomitable man of the sea, a racial horn blower.

Remember none greater than that which faced me as I prepared to sail in my figget in search of them at teddy dead. I had captured her before in harbor, by knights and by surprise.

Now, I'm the speaker on the open sea, where an enormous superiority in firing force must give her the advantage. But, fair enough, the responsibility of a high-born and influential passenger, Lady Ed Barber-Wellslim. When I return to the ship after going on the Viceroy at Panama, I summon the bush, my first lieutenant to my cabin.

But to go into action, not an end-demon with nothing to do but... If Lady Wellsly takes advantage of her position and forces me to carry her to England, I cannot refuse. No reason why my ship should be turned into a...

A bootwise, no ship. I can find your bush, can't you say anything but no sir? You should be sure, but to fight an enemy twice its size. I'll give Mr. Bush no good or good of this.

We shall be sent soon for exposing our leadership today. I can't imagine you, Luke. Once I'll opinion Mr. Bush good or otherwise, I will ask for it. And this heat must have worked half-naked. Still on the quarter, Declan, I went to attend to the business of getting the ship underway.

It's brought with many factors at once. once the increasing sternly the amount of cable still to run out when I sail forward I must do so dead in line with the anchor with no slack in the cable or we might well bring the masks and rigging about our ears you see how well you've drilled up to her seat

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