May 2, 2025 • 21 mins
Follows the naval adventures of a British officer during the Napoleonic Wars, highlighting his leadership and bravery. The series combines historical context with maritime action.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hold our hands back the quarters. I'm forgot stand by
this time a battery.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
One broadside didn't worn it to please Captain Bush, point.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Us on target, then stops ready.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I saw already.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Possessing Michael Redgrave as Forester's indomino man of the Sea,
Horatio Hornblower.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
You've after so many years, I can still look back
on that of my life with pride and satisfaction. I
had been given three days in which to do as
much damage as possible before rendezvousing with the Flagship and
the Caligular, and in twenty four hours I had captured
a French brig laden with military supplies, destroyed the heavy
batteries at Lancer, and taken seven small craft and cut out,
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and taken a French ship under the guns.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Of the port andres batteries.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
The coast was in confusion, and I was at least
a thousand pounds the ritual in prize money. But I
hope to do much more. Yet in the remaining time,
the question was how you said, permis, sir Bron, Can
you swim, Bron?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Swim? Why?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Good?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Well, I want a crew for the barge. Everyone a
good swimmer, and every man a volunteer. Ah, sir, it'd
all volunteer a Markey brand.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
This is for dangerous service.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I want true volunteers now of your press game, why say,
are you go?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Yes? It be ad to pick them, sir. They all
want to go while I leave it to you.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yes, you are to each man and a packet of combustible.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Eyes come what combustibles flint and steel, A couple of
port fires, oily rags and a bit of slow match,
all in an oil.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Skin packet, and the land yet to carry them? If
we swim? Yes, get your crew ready immediately, eyes up,
rights up.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
You have a plan in mind, sir, Yes, mister Bush,
I'm going ashore to burn that coaster over there over?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Could I take the cruiser.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I'll not allow volunteers to go on a mission if
I can't lead them.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
But if I call the volunteer wasting.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Time, mister Bush, I can't aclipt her of it as
to take my barge the long boat and launch draw
too much water and mark this, mister Bush. No rescue
part is if we're lost, we're lost. I'll not have
you wasting valuable lives in rescue attempts till I give
you that in writing.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
No nats.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Sure, I understand, but all right, we'll heave the ship
to stand off and on and wait for us.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Hard pulled eight doors, and.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I sat beside Brown while we danced lightly over the
blue Mediterranean. I set a course to reach the shore
a little ahead of the brown sail, which was just
showing over the.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Strip of coast. He crossed the line of sluggish breakers
and darted in towards the golden beach.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
A moment later the boat walked, slid over sand, moved
a few yards more, and then grounded.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Overwait you, man, I run the boat up the beach.
You don't every countresss fire baggage right steadily up the beach.
Don't use too much energy.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
We may have a long swim. Make for that low
bank of single at the head of the beach. It's
a vineyard on the other side.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Look, there's a sail not a quarter of a mile
away beyond the vineyard.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Itsian old men.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Certain two women. They are evil, something from Gus. I'll
ignore them. Come on, man.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
The water was as warm as milk, but the coaster
was one hundred and fifty yards away, and my sword
dangling from my naked waist hampered me and already seemed
heavy as lead. The men, however, said strongly ahead, and
by the time we neared the coaster, I was a
bad last. The men scrambled up into the low waist
of the vessel and then waited to help me aboard.
(05:30):
Must have looked a strange sight, naked but armed. Yet
in the tenseness of the moment, our nakedness was forgotten.
I walked out towards the little group of men and women,
trying to recollect my few words of French.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Opson, there's a dinghy overside. Draw it in and I
loaded them into it.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
H ol battou entrell the battle.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
He entrevood'labatto silver plask.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Here, I'll do itself. Here you open up and treasured
it off. See yeah, I thought he'd understand that.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yes, thank you, Brian into the boat with all of
them and cast.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
It a drift.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Well less thing settles there.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Look they're make him for the two pears will never
mind them. Set the ship on fire.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Take three men below and see what you can do there, Hudson,
You and the others get some of those deck blanks up.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Cowboys all in barrels and grating sects the oil and
gros steving some bells and rip the sex. He's burning
like powers stand.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
By to abandoned ship.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Or presents.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Right there you go, we can go back.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Huh Hey, look at an old woman from the coaster.
She slung all her clothes and the lagoon.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
With ki sleft.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Look, I'll tive in and get your shirts.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
No, it's good time. We ust leave our clothes.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A few clothes for the ship from the valuable cargo.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Is a good exchange?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Would you like the old man's trousers? Set ast them off?
Be dead to him?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Come along back to the vineyard. Pull in behind me. Man,
why this is no good gumbling. We did the job naked,
and we'll go back naked. Hop into the vineyard. Within
an hour his horseman riding.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Across the vineyard towards is there. He's got a blue
uniform and a cock down.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
What just give me a hand, Let me see it's
got to burnapart.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Sont dining at him?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Man, I'm dead, he's get aping a waster. Never mind him.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Man back to the beach.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
What the devil as naked as the day they were born?
For short of the captain isn't coming up ball and
taking this a loot like that, mister Jared. When the
captain comes aboard, if he received house the captain dressed
or undressed, tell the side boys on the Marines that
if I see one of them with a suspicion of
a smile in his face, or have him flogged hi
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either for the purposes of receiving him aboard. Captain hornblowers
in for dress mister Jared. Yes, mister Bush, of course
I can see that now successful adventure. I hope him, yes,
very thinking Bush, and nothing untoward the Kurd. I hope
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him nothing whatever, mister Bush. Please put the ship about.
(09:03):
Only two hours passed dawn.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
It was stifling hot already the easterly breeze seemed not
to have cooled at all by its passage of nearly
four hundred miles across the Mediterranean form Italy. Land slipping
by along the larboard beams seemed devoid of all life.
Yet along the base of those lofty, gray green hills
ran the most important high road in Catalonia, the road
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connecting Barcelona with France. And as I talked again with
Spanish officers who had come out to my ship, at
dawn in a fishing boat.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
I felt that this new day promised to be as
productive as the previous too.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
There are certain colonel villain under this army of General
Pino's will march.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Along this verry road.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
They must captain ten thousands of them Pinos and Lecki's
division of the Italian Army.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
It was at Tordell that I lost my own regiment.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
The army cut us to pieces, and only escaped myself
by riding into my horse dropped to be. But there
is more than the loss of my regiment. To a
ven sir, the Italians have burned every village in the uplands.
Every road is lined with gallows, and upon every gallows is.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
A Spanish corpse. Horrible.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Also, we can see what we can do, mister Bush,
fear for action. If you please, I'll have the guns
noted and run.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Out to captain.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Bring your glass there where he's not that a speck
of far up on the hill a horseman believe it is, and.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Riding towards us. There's a sort of moving smudge behind him.
I suspected to be the advance guard of the army.
You can see an occasional sparkle and flash as the
sun catches there.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Equipped I can edgin in quite closely here if necessary,
you can see them quite plainly.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Now they are cavalry riding with drawn seebers if you're
an ambush.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
But I do not know where an.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Opposition is likely to come from.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
We must see if we can provide some Colonel, what's
that long line of white dots beyond the cavalry looks
like a long caterpillar with.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
White legs, all moving together.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Hitches in the way, Captain, it is the white breeches
of a column of infantry.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Half Why look.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Sir, they're wave in their heads to us, very friendly,
the whole thing, and then help shim a bit worried.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I doubt if they've ever encountered a ship before or
been cannonaded from the scene. And officers are used to
opposing armies, but there have no experience of a ship's broadside.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
They'll probably regard us as a welcome.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Break in a monotonous march, mister Gerard, playing the guns
on the road, and only fire when I give you.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
The signal, Fire as you well, mister Gerard, And again
and again give her home Las What a last night
(11:52):
deeper water sir, we can move further in.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Ah, they don't like it. Don't like it.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Next colors boating. I would have went there, mister, mister
jelid load with grape shots.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
I I don't see.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
They have jammed the columns coming up are preventing the
office from getting away.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
They are struggling with each.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Other, said sheer murder. But fear it must be done.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
To show how to teach you, summer. I am I
to go about cease fire. We must run out past
that heldon and come back again.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Mister Bush. They've done considerable damage. I think, Yes, Sir Josh.
Look at the road. It's littered with him and the
hillside's covered with men trying to get away.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
The officers will never round them up.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Ah, there's a battery of artillery at the end of
the next columns.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yes, nine pounds, a few pieces stillness stuff against our broadside.
But by adn't I going to try? Look at this
officer galloping down the line. He's ordering the guns into action.
Worship mister Bush will stand in and give them a
sporting target.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Hi, A sure nine talent is reserve your fire for
the battle. Him and him.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Now smoke, exploring right back into our eyes. Cutsier thing,
magnificent path. The guns are smashed, their crews are killed,
are scattered.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Not all that office is a garon man. He's trying
to get one gun working. He's he's too late. Our
speed is taking us out of range.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
He's a second division of infantry there. Look at him
scaring up the hillside even before we get to him.
Don't fire out them, mister Gerard.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
It's just damaging to an army to be scattered and demoralized,
us to be killed.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
So I doubt if our men will understand that. Do
you see that group of horsemen above the road there, gold.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Trappings and plumes, the staff of the army. Elsewhear, mister Jard.
We will give a little attention to that group up there,
if you please.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Hi. There's the four things that are arranged, and the care.
Not a man left in a cell. Wonderful, so wonderful.
I hope General Pino himself was amongst them. I hope
he was killed. No, no, I hope he was creepled, hurt,
terribly hurt. I hope paris your bloods.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
As to comments, Colonel, I have no love for this
sort of warfare, and take no delight in causing suffering,
and do it because I must. I prefer an action
where there's danger on both sides. By word, look at
this set. We're not as safe as all that.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
It's a musketball embedded in the round half its depth.
They're far is raching us, you see, Colonel.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
The colonel seems to have more urgent business on the
other side of the corner deck.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Thank that, mister Bush. I shall be glad when we
reach the rear of the column. This slaughter's second man. Ah,
But we're killing the enemy, sir, That's all I care about. Hello,
what's this shirt like? Eat? Strange?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Those carts with four horses to them must be ammunition
gets ons Lis a gerard.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
They'll have target practice single guns, then.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Lit them five broadsides and they'll miss on purpose fire retation.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
I'm a gun fire.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
As the Sutherland drifted slowly along the shore, a gun
spoke out, one by one, hurling a hatful of grape
shot onto the road. It was with sorrow, almost amounting
to anguish, that I watched horses and mules go down
before that deadly fire. But I intended a cold, impassive
face throughout a few of the mules managed to leap
the bank out of the road and scramble up the hillside,
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scattering their loads.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
As they went.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And then as we passed the last of the ammunition
train and came to a new line of carts, I
observed a man standing up in one of the carts
and frantically waving a.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
White handkerchief pictures. So they want a surrender ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I must know the nur surrender could be put into effect.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
He must take his chances. He doing that. He seedsed
to be trying to pick something up through the floor.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
The god he try to lift you see now see fives,
it's a man.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
He's holding up a bandage man.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Those are the army ambulance vehicles full of sick and
wounded from yesterday's battle with Villaina's regiment. That officer must
be a surgeon. Let's put the ship about, mister Bush.
We will replace our course and harass the main body again.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Hi Isa, stand by.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The glut Hans to pricess.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
He so easy on this texture. We'd have to save
up the coast haul, and if we make three nuts
we'll be doing well. We should do the best we can.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Then take there few guns plaining us from the road, sir,
we got three guns in the position, sir, y.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Well, we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Mister Jernard, carry on with your target practice in a way,
mister Bushes is a good thing. Our crew is raw,
and there's a vast difference between shooting under.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Strbed and shooting under return fire.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
See how they behave as fellows, the good gunners. That
one was close, that was closer to look at that
hole in our topsail. I should think them in some casualties.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I think as use your bar chaser guns on the
battery and may unsteadied their gun.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Layers estenier targets, gen I they can't reach the field
gun set. Why are their soldiers scutting all over the
hillside chat?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Yes, the officers are going to have a difficult time
reassembling them, and many will desert. I understand that these
Italian divisions desert ridily. They have no love for Buonaparte's cause.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Poor hicks the main top gallop, backstage party set saints.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And tough enough and splice that stay.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
But we'll be TOAs raids presently.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Say what that tell us that if the ship's boys
has been hit.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
From the sound of it, mister Jernard, I'm going to
put the helm down now, be ready to fire.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
As the guns were a brown she comes. Why that
gun is a running shirt. They're not going to wait
for it. Had too much last time, I expect. Let
them have it. Lance smoke clearing.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yes, oh well in mister Gerard, there's not a gun
left on the road. Your men behaved like veterans.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Welcome back summer.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
The water is showing rapid lift. You'll stand out to
see again. Maybe you've done all. We came here.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Another time we get in again, the remains of the
army will have withdrawn.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Ay ay, sir, started your home and mister Brass, you.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
May secure your guns.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Mister Johan see five guns. I think prison three days.
Jer Candy, tell a man.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
To stop that nonsense. Mister Bush.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Mister Bush, kind of a frame from cunning like a
food mister Lumley, British officer.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Does not cap it on the deck like a schoolboy, sir, Yes,
oh yeah, the gun room, Steward.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
You may find that our casualties are nothing to cheer about.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yes, begging your pardon, sir, But Tom Cribb's being killed
Tom Cribb. I remember no man of that name, mister Bush.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Shortly the heavyweight boxing champion of England is named Tom
crib isn't he?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I believe you, sir. That ain't al Sir. There's Missus Siddons. Uh,
she's got a splinter in her wall, said to tell
the truth. She got a spinder where she won't be.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Able to sit down, Sir, squill something horrible When I
pulled it out, she did so.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Missus Siddons a mad man or mine, Tom Cribb and
Missus Siddons or two of the peaks prenominated to the
gut room mace pigs.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Are?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Only casualties? A mister watsh have you any casualties? Not
among the men, sir? But I'm afraid that Tom Cribb
and Missus Side.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Already a report on the condition of clipp and sent
mister Bush.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
You may issue God to all hands spash to make ples.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
A ratio Hornblower starring Michael Redgrave is based on the
novels by C. S.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Forester.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Music composed and conducted by Sydney Tort produced by Harry
Allan Towers
Hold our hands back the quarters. I'm forgot stand by
this time a battery.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
One broadside didn't worn it to please Captain Bush, point.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Us on target, then stops ready.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I saw already.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Possessing Michael Redgrave as Forester's indomino man of the Sea,
Horatio Hornblower.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
You've after so many years, I can still look back
on that of my life with pride and satisfaction. I
had been given three days in which to do as
much damage as possible before rendezvousing with the Flagship and
the Caligular, and in twenty four hours I had captured
a French brig laden with military supplies, destroyed the heavy
batteries at Lancer, and taken seven small craft and cut out,
(02:19):
and taken a French ship under the guns.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Of the port andres batteries.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
The coast was in confusion, and I was at least
a thousand pounds the ritual in prize money. But I
hope to do much more. Yet in the remaining time,
the question was how you said, permis, sir Bron, Can
you swim, Bron?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Swim? Why?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Good?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Well, I want a crew for the barge. Everyone a
good swimmer, and every man a volunteer. Ah, sir, it'd
all volunteer a Markey brand.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
This is for dangerous service.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I want true volunteers now of your press game, why say,
are you go?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Yes? It be ad to pick them, sir. They all
want to go while I leave it to you.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yes, you are to each man and a packet of combustible.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Eyes come what combustibles flint and steel, A couple of
port fires, oily rags and a bit of slow match,
all in an oil.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Skin packet, and the land yet to carry them? If
we swim? Yes, get your crew ready immediately, eyes up,
rights up.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
You have a plan in mind, sir, Yes, mister Bush,
I'm going ashore to burn that coaster over there over?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Could I take the cruiser.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I'll not allow volunteers to go on a mission if
I can't lead them.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
But if I call the volunteer wasting.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Time, mister Bush, I can't aclipt her of it as
to take my barge the long boat and launch draw
too much water and mark this, mister Bush. No rescue
part is if we're lost, we're lost. I'll not have
you wasting valuable lives in rescue attempts till I give
you that in writing.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
No nats.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Sure, I understand, but all right, we'll heave the ship
to stand off and on and wait for us.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Hard pulled eight doors, and.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I sat beside Brown while we danced lightly over the
blue Mediterranean. I set a course to reach the shore
a little ahead of the brown sail, which was just
showing over the.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Strip of coast. He crossed the line of sluggish breakers
and darted in towards the golden beach.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
A moment later the boat walked, slid over sand, moved
a few yards more, and then grounded.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Overwait you, man, I run the boat up the beach.
You don't every countresss fire baggage right steadily up the beach.
Don't use too much energy.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
We may have a long swim. Make for that low
bank of single at the head of the beach. It's
a vineyard on the other side.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Look, there's a sail not a quarter of a mile
away beyond the vineyard.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Itsian old men.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Certain two women. They are evil, something from Gus. I'll
ignore them. Come on, man.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
The water was as warm as milk, but the coaster
was one hundred and fifty yards away, and my sword
dangling from my naked waist hampered me and already seemed
heavy as lead. The men, however, said strongly ahead, and
by the time we neared the coaster, I was a
bad last. The men scrambled up into the low waist
of the vessel and then waited to help me aboard.
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Must have looked a strange sight, naked but armed. Yet
in the tenseness of the moment, our nakedness was forgotten.
I walked out towards the little group of men and women,
trying to recollect my few words of French.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Opson, there's a dinghy overside. Draw it in and I
loaded them into it.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
H ol battou entrell the battle.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
He entrevood'labatto silver plask.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Here, I'll do itself. Here you open up and treasured
it off. See yeah, I thought he'd understand that.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yes, thank you, Brian into the boat with all of
them and cast.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
It a drift.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Well less thing settles there.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Look they're make him for the two pears will never
mind them. Set the ship on fire.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Take three men below and see what you can do there, Hudson,
You and the others get some of those deck blanks up.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Cowboys all in barrels and grating sects the oil and
gros steving some bells and rip the sex. He's burning
like powers stand.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
By to abandoned ship.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Or presents.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Right there you go, we can go back.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Huh Hey, look at an old woman from the coaster.
She slung all her clothes and the lagoon.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
With ki sleft.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Look, I'll tive in and get your shirts.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
No, it's good time. We ust leave our clothes.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A few clothes for the ship from the valuable cargo.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Is a good exchange?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Would you like the old man's trousers? Set ast them off?
Be dead to him?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Come along back to the vineyard. Pull in behind me. Man,
why this is no good gumbling. We did the job naked,
and we'll go back naked. Hop into the vineyard. Within
an hour his horseman riding.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Across the vineyard towards is there. He's got a blue
uniform and a cock down.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
What just give me a hand, Let me see it's
got to burnapart.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Sont dining at him?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Man, I'm dead, he's get aping a waster. Never mind him.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Man back to the beach.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
What the devil as naked as the day they were born?
For short of the captain isn't coming up ball and
taking this a loot like that, mister Jared. When the
captain comes aboard, if he received house the captain dressed
or undressed, tell the side boys on the Marines that
if I see one of them with a suspicion of
a smile in his face, or have him flogged hi
(08:13):
either for the purposes of receiving him aboard. Captain hornblowers
in for dress mister Jared. Yes, mister Bush, of course
I can see that now successful adventure. I hope him, yes,
very thinking Bush, and nothing untoward the Kurd. I hope
(08:33):
him nothing whatever, mister Bush. Please put the ship about.
(09:03):
Only two hours passed dawn.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
It was stifling hot already the easterly breeze seemed not
to have cooled at all by its passage of nearly
four hundred miles across the Mediterranean form Italy. Land slipping
by along the larboard beams seemed devoid of all life.
Yet along the base of those lofty, gray green hills
ran the most important high road in Catalonia, the road
(09:27):
connecting Barcelona with France. And as I talked again with
Spanish officers who had come out to my ship, at
dawn in a fishing boat.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
I felt that this new day promised to be as
productive as the previous too.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
There are certain colonel villain under this army of General
Pino's will march.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Along this verry road.
Speaker 8 (09:46):
They must captain ten thousands of them Pinos and Lecki's
division of the Italian Army.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
It was at Tordell that I lost my own regiment.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
The army cut us to pieces, and only escaped myself
by riding into my horse dropped to be. But there
is more than the loss of my regiment. To a
ven sir, the Italians have burned every village in the uplands.
Every road is lined with gallows, and upon every gallows is.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
A Spanish corpse. Horrible.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Also, we can see what we can do, mister Bush,
fear for action. If you please, I'll have the guns
noted and run.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Out to captain.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Bring your glass there where he's not that a speck
of far up on the hill a horseman believe it is, and.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Riding towards us. There's a sort of moving smudge behind him.
I suspected to be the advance guard of the army.
You can see an occasional sparkle and flash as the
sun catches there.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Equipped I can edgin in quite closely here if necessary,
you can see them quite plainly.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
Now they are cavalry riding with drawn seebers if you're
an ambush.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
But I do not know where an.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Opposition is likely to come from.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
We must see if we can provide some Colonel, what's
that long line of white dots beyond the cavalry looks
like a long caterpillar with.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
White legs, all moving together.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Hitches in the way, Captain, it is the white breeches
of a column of infantry.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Half Why look.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Sir, they're wave in their heads to us, very friendly,
the whole thing, and then help shim a bit worried.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
I doubt if they've ever encountered a ship before or
been cannonaded from the scene. And officers are used to
opposing armies, but there have no experience of a ship's broadside.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
They'll probably regard us as a welcome.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Break in a monotonous march, mister Gerard, playing the guns
on the road, and only fire when I give you.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
The signal, Fire as you well, mister Gerard, And again
and again give her home Las What a last night
(11:52):
deeper water sir, we can move further in.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Ah, they don't like it. Don't like it.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Next colors boating. I would have went there, mister, mister
jelid load with grape shots.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
I I don't see.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
They have jammed the columns coming up are preventing the
office from getting away.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
They are struggling with each.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Other, said sheer murder. But fear it must be done.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
To show how to teach you, summer. I am I
to go about cease fire. We must run out past
that heldon and come back again.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Mister Bush. They've done considerable damage. I think, Yes, Sir Josh.
Look at the road. It's littered with him and the
hillside's covered with men trying to get away.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
The officers will never round them up.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Ah, there's a battery of artillery at the end of
the next columns.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yes, nine pounds, a few pieces stillness stuff against our broadside.
But by adn't I going to try? Look at this
officer galloping down the line. He's ordering the guns into action.
Worship mister Bush will stand in and give them a
sporting target.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Hi, A sure nine talent is reserve your fire for
the battle. Him and him.
Speaker 10 (13:04):
Now smoke, exploring right back into our eyes. Cutsier thing,
magnificent path. The guns are smashed, their crews are killed,
are scattered.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Not all that office is a garon man. He's trying
to get one gun working. He's he's too late. Our
speed is taking us out of range.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
He's a second division of infantry there. Look at him
scaring up the hillside even before we get to him.
Don't fire out them, mister Gerard.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
It's just damaging to an army to be scattered and demoralized,
us to be killed.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
So I doubt if our men will understand that. Do
you see that group of horsemen above the road there, gold.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Trappings and plumes, the staff of the army. Elsewhear, mister Jard.
We will give a little attention to that group up there,
if you please.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Hi. There's the four things that are arranged, and the care.
Not a man left in a cell. Wonderful, so wonderful.
I hope General Pino himself was amongst them. I hope
he was killed. No, no, I hope he was creepled, hurt,
terribly hurt. I hope paris your bloods.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
As to comments, Colonel, I have no love for this
sort of warfare, and take no delight in causing suffering,
and do it because I must. I prefer an action
where there's danger on both sides. By word, look at
this set. We're not as safe as all that.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
It's a musketball embedded in the round half its depth.
They're far is raching us, you see, Colonel.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
The colonel seems to have more urgent business on the
other side of the corner deck.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Thank that, mister Bush. I shall be glad when we
reach the rear of the column. This slaughter's second man. Ah,
But we're killing the enemy, sir, That's all I care about. Hello,
what's this shirt like? Eat? Strange?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Those carts with four horses to them must be ammunition
gets ons Lis a gerard.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
They'll have target practice single guns, then.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Lit them five broadsides and they'll miss on purpose fire retation.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
I'm a gun fire.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
As the Sutherland drifted slowly along the shore, a gun
spoke out, one by one, hurling a hatful of grape
shot onto the road. It was with sorrow, almost amounting
to anguish, that I watched horses and mules go down
before that deadly fire. But I intended a cold, impassive
face throughout a few of the mules managed to leap
the bank out of the road and scramble up the hillside,
(15:48):
scattering their loads.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
As they went.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And then as we passed the last of the ammunition
train and came to a new line of carts, I
observed a man standing up in one of the carts
and frantically waving a.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
White handkerchief pictures. So they want a surrender ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I must know the nur surrender could be put into effect.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
He must take his chances. He doing that. He seedsed
to be trying to pick something up through the floor.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
The god he try to lift you see now see fives,
it's a man.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
He's holding up a bandage man.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Those are the army ambulance vehicles full of sick and
wounded from yesterday's battle with Villaina's regiment. That officer must
be a surgeon. Let's put the ship about, mister Bush.
We will replace our course and harass the main body again.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Hi Isa, stand by.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The glut Hans to pricess.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
He so easy on this texture. We'd have to save
up the coast haul, and if we make three nuts
we'll be doing well. We should do the best we can.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Then take there few guns plaining us from the road, sir,
we got three guns in the position, sir, y.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Well, we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Mister Jernard, carry on with your target practice in a way,
mister Bushes is a good thing. Our crew is raw,
and there's a vast difference between shooting under.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Strbed and shooting under return fire.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
See how they behave as fellows, the good gunners. That
one was close, that was closer to look at that
hole in our topsail. I should think them in some casualties.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I think as use your bar chaser guns on the
battery and may unsteadied their gun.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Layers estenier targets, gen I they can't reach the field
gun set. Why are their soldiers scutting all over the
hillside chat?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Yes, the officers are going to have a difficult time
reassembling them, and many will desert. I understand that these
Italian divisions desert ridily. They have no love for Buonaparte's cause.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Poor hicks the main top gallop, backstage party set saints.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And tough enough and splice that stay.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
But we'll be TOAs raids presently.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Say what that tell us that if the ship's boys
has been hit.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
From the sound of it, mister Jernard, I'm going to
put the helm down now, be ready to fire.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
As the guns were a brown she comes. Why that
gun is a running shirt. They're not going to wait
for it. Had too much last time, I expect. Let
them have it. Lance smoke clearing.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yes, oh well in mister Gerard, there's not a gun
left on the road. Your men behaved like veterans.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Welcome back summer.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
The water is showing rapid lift. You'll stand out to
see again. Maybe you've done all. We came here.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Another time we get in again, the remains of the
army will have withdrawn.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Ay ay, sir, started your home and mister Brass, you.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
May secure your guns.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Mister Johan see five guns. I think prison three days.
Jer Candy, tell a man.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
To stop that nonsense. Mister Bush.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Mister Bush, kind of a frame from cunning like a
food mister Lumley, British officer.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Does not cap it on the deck like a schoolboy, sir, Yes,
oh yeah, the gun room, Steward.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
You may find that our casualties are nothing to cheer about.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yes, begging your pardon, sir, But Tom Cribb's being killed
Tom Cribb. I remember no man of that name, mister Bush.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Shortly the heavyweight boxing champion of England is named Tom
crib isn't he?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I believe you, sir. That ain't al Sir. There's Missus Siddons. Uh,
she's got a splinter in her wall, said to tell
the truth. She got a spinder where she won't be.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Able to sit down, Sir, squill something horrible When I
pulled it out, she did so.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Missus Siddons a mad man or mine, Tom Cribb and
Missus Siddons or two of the peaks prenominated to the
gut room mace pigs.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Are?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Only casualties? A mister watsh have you any casualties? Not
among the men, sir? But I'm afraid that Tom Cribb
and Missus Side.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Already a report on the condition of clipp and sent
mister Bush.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
You may issue God to all hands spash to make ples.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
A ratio Hornblower starring Michael Redgrave is based on the
novels by C. S.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Forester.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
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