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Horatio Hornblower · October 10, 1952 · 22 min · 2,866 words
The transcript of “Spanish Fail to Attack”, an episode of Horatio Hornblower first broadcast October 10, 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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Beat the quarters, time would better. One broad side into it, please, Captain Bush. Points as on target, rinse tops ready? Presenting Michael Redgrave as CS foresters in Domino Man of the Sea, a ratio horn blower.
Exciting days after so many years, knowing what trouble and hardship was to come,
I'd still elect to live them again, had I the choice. Yet on the morning when the captains of the squadland sat in the admiral's cabin, Then, discussing the forthcoming operation, I was full of foreboding. Admiral Layton had censured me for leaving the squadron despite my success. I could not but feel that he still
suspected me of having been the lover of Lady Barbara before her marriage to him. Now I again fund myself opposing him. Then, where a greedy gentleman? The captain of the town of Rosus, he picked to be affected.
will throw the French plan for the subjection of Catalonia into confusion. Our free ship can supply a landing party of 600 men and kept in Hornblower, we leave. His experience of the Spanish journey is in Brisbane there and his command of the tongue making the obvious choice.
Er, I trust you'll forgive me for saying so that it might be unwise to trust so entirely to the cooperation of the Spanish army. But they have 7,000 men at all, it's too much. It's only 30 miles from Olat to Rosas.
Yes, sir, but over a month in parts. Can we be sure that they have that number or that they will cut? I'm sorry if we saw insistence, sir, but I have painful experience of Spanish promises.
The soldiers will be relied on. That's not something Captain Humber. I have general repurist definite promise too much. But what alternative do you suggest then? Well, I would suggest that we can find ourselves to actions within our own strength without having to rely on Spanish hope.
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