Lieutenant Horatio Hornblower
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Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War: Directed by Andrew Grieve. With Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher, Samuel West. Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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- Adventure, Drama, War
- Andrew Grieve
- 1999-04-25
The Frogs and the Lobsters (a.k.a. The Wrong War) is an episode of the television program Hornblower. It is set during the French Revolutionary Wars and very loosely based on the chapter of the same name in C.S. Forester 's 1950 novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and on the actual ill-fated Quiberon expedition of 1795.
Lt. Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd) vows to protect a schoolteacher from a French commander out to avenge his former home.
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- Ioan Gruffudd
- Andrew Grieve
- History, Drama
Read user reviews of the fourth and final episode of the TV series based on C.S. Forester's novels. Find out what they liked and disliked about the plot, the characters, the acting and the historical accuracy.
Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. Hornblower is called to take a company of British troops (which the sailors call lobsters because of their red coats) and a company of French nationalists to France to fight in the revolution.
The Wrong War, the fourth episode in the series, introduces Horatio to French royalist aligned with the Bourbons. In the first episode, Horatio is 17 years old. However five years have passed and by the fourth episode, he is 22 years old. Louis XVI and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette have been executed and many of the loyal royalists have left ...
- DVD
Apr 28, 1999 · Now a commissioned lieutenant, young Mr. Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd) finds both in spades in The Wrong War. His Britannic Majesty’s frigate Indefatigable is ferrying a force of French Royalist refugees from England back to France in a daring, nay, foolhardy, attempt to retake the country from the Republicans and restore the monarchy.
