In fact Aubrey appeals to we endomorphic types too.

Flash, I am an endomorph, who is this Aubrey?

 

T-Dog

Sea, most yanks just luv Mrs.  Thatcher.    She is right up there with Ronald Reagan & the Pope.

 

T-Dog

 

p.s.  Nobody called her a poodle

C.S.Forester and Patrick O'Brien wrote those stories both on the same general theme (Hornblower v Aubrey) but viewed with the luxury of hindsight from different points in history. Plus if you're considering the film or DVD versions of the stories and characters you have to consider Peter Wear's take on it too. There's a similar parallel with the factual events of the Peninsular war and character of Rifleman Dodd, in Forester's 1933 novel "Death to the French", with Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series.

Stop poncing about with imaginary copies and get the real thing...Thomas Cochrane. The first book I ever read on the genuine article was called 'The Sea Wolf' by Ian Grimble which was the name given to him by the French, but if you go to Amazon, I'm sure there are plenty of other biographies on the great man. You will not believe what this fella got up to

Tiger

You don't fight a ship with your courses rigged. Topsails only. you want to see the enemy, and maybe you don't like fire.

I really liked the Aubrey movie and enjoyed the HH novels as a kid...for real life people I like that Scots kid....John Paul Jones.

I always thought the traitor was Welsh

You'd think so with a name like Jones, but he was born in Kirkcudbrightshire.

He was just John Paul back then Mark. Took the name Jones after he killed a seaman with a bucket and the Admiralty types thought he should hang for it.

He was a gardner, and Irish. His sexual proclivities were so vile no-one could be persuaded to hang him. The bucket was a contraceptive. 'nuff said.

re #22.

We started a whole war in Accra when someone broke an Embassy window.

Probably trying to get at the sheep inside. British considered em staff you know!