captainhornblower: (Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame)
Captain Horatio Hornblower ([personal profile] captainhornblower) wrote 2012-09-11 02:48 am (UTC)

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[The tone makes Horatio smile. It's a bleak situation, but... There's no immediate threat, so he can joke about it.

Then again, this is the man who, upon being informed of the (obvious) fact at the Renown had been pierced with heated shot, replied that they'd drown long before they burned.]


Then we'll be a navy of one ship with two guns.

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