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Horatio Hornblower · March 6, 1953 · 20 min · 2,522 words
The transcript of “Delaying the French”, an episode of Horatio Hornblower first broadcast March 6, 1953. 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. Play this time at the Herr. One broad side in order to please Captain Bush. Point to some target. Vince Tops, really? I'm Michael Redgrave, as she has foresters in Domino and Man of the Sea.
Horatio Hornblower. A woman flattery. Lieutenant Mound, who commanded the bomb catch Harvey, attached to my Baltic squadron.
He'd grown to imitate me in every gesture and speech. But I had other things on my mind. Bonaparte's forces were laying siege to the Russian defenders outside the city of Riga. Imitation. Well, the art of war seems to be that of imitation.
Well, it definitely was so in the belief of von Kuyzwits, a Prussian colonel who had deserted Bonaparte in order to oppose him, and who was showing me the Russian earthworks of the lions. Who will be observed from the Duhrung Bloor on the gallery of the church tower?
We can see spread out before as the whole operation. Made in his attempting to move up his heavy guns. The classic method. Now, for your ribose diagonally, it's dark and fresh. Don't you bask it like a fit with earth.
The classic method, I see. Then from the pine woods, another diagonal trench. Yes, and you are dying. And... How long before they're in range? They'll deny that Bonaparte wants to be another Caesar. But you know guns heavy enough to batter down those breastworks?
It is no certificate. I've got mortars aboard my bomb-kitches. If we could, we could level them in no time. Oh. And why not do so, Commodore? I said if we could, but that river isn't deep enough.
Sandbar, shallows, quick sands. No, no, we'd run aground before we got within range. We must carry on the fight, our states. Very telephone-closive, it's there are some things that even the British Navy cannot do.
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