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 (00:05):
Cold, all hands back the quarters. I'm up because stand by,
let's have it better.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
One Broadside didn't do it to please Captain Bush.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Point us some pocket prince Puss ready pies already.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Is that thing, Michael Redgrave, as he has Forester's indominable
Man of the Sea Ratio Hornblower.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In the years have passed since I was eighteen, I
had been in many lands, the lard distant ports of
Panama and Salvador, the islands of the Sea, Africa, Sweden, Iberia.
But in those days I was young Midshipman Hornblower on
his Majesty's ship, indefatigable. It was then that I first
set foot on any soil out of than my native England.
(02:19):
And yet when Midshipman Jack Brace and I stood on
shore at Primouth Harbor, had no idea of what was
to come. An expeditionary force was about would embark against France,
and Brace and I were being properly superior about the
files of soldiers who stood drawn up awaiting orders. I
(02:42):
remember how we nodded gravely to each other, Jack Brace
and I. But but even while we did leftenant Mason
turned and called to me, I crossed the key and
reported with no idea of what might be in store.
Sir old Blower, there's a special duty for you, Sir.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
This is Lord edw.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Major, commanding his Britannic Majesty's forty third foot, and this.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Is your don't mind a pendant mason. I'll handle this myself.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
He was her your name Hornblow, Yes, sir, it'll be
more proper if you addressed me with my law. I
issa Lord Hornblower, culer name, Hondler, family name, my.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Lord, the name Hornblower, and I don't get your back up.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
If it's your name, with your name and your saddle
with it, make the best of wolving.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Then lifting a plasmon here tells you see French.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well a little sir, a little name. If it is enough,
don't speak a word of it himself. Leave go to
the French themselves.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Mister Hornbler, there's a problem of communication between Lord Edrington,
commanding this expedition and the French forces. Sir, this gentleman
here alla me the Marquis de Possage, Brigadier General in
the service of His most Christian Majesty Louis seventeenth. Sir,
may I present to midchepman, Honbler, Monsieur le marquis, I have.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
This folder all long with dandire chattering long little take
us again on our way.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
There's a matter of tithes or ss. Yes, my lord,
the transport ships is standing by. We missed sail on
the type cour exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And separate transport and my battaliant on the French reached
the coast of France. Together, shore together, work together, all
that sort of rubbish. Well, Maason to the navyes Midchip
and holder.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I am certain there will be no difficulty mat all.
So you mean you mean I'm not to remain on
board the Indefatigable you speak French Cornbler, You'll be detached
as you'll go on board the transport which carries.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
The French crew.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Don't look, there's startles on. There's a big opportunity. We'll
only go on board. You'll land with them in France
if a cross channel invasion may make history. Don't you
know that England wants the boar bones back on the
French throne.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The convoys sailed on the evening tide. From the deck
of the transport, I could see the Indefatigable leading the line.
I hope very lost, but at least I preferred the
French Lord Edrington. I would never admit it, but almost
I believe he'd make a botch of the whole expedition.
(05:07):
We are not the only expeditionary force, monsieur. The main
body will land at keep on five thousand men. Well
that's a little better, serpent. I beg your pardon, said
I overreach my no, no, no, please to continue?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Well, well, even.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Seven thousand men, even ten or fifteen. The French Republic
has one hundred thousand. But observe the main army of
the revolutionary is where are they situated? They are here
in the south of France to come north to attack
our main force. By which way must they travel? I
see well by way of this road, precisely the coastal road.
(05:47):
And observe where we land we the small force of
British and French royalists. There is a bridge, monsieur.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And if the bridge is destroyed, the revolutionaries can be
held back.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Even so, my small faults, while our main body raises
the standard of his most Christian Majesty, Louis the seventeen I.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
First through all of Brittany, and then onto price.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We shall say France, monsieur, we the few men who
hold thebray jack Musiak. Next morning, the convoy rounded belly
(06:53):
and dropped anker. There was Mooziak, and beyond it lay
the Villain River, and there was the bridge. The invasion
draft went ashore without a single shot being fired. My
feet were wet with salt water. But for the first
time in my young life, I was standing on foreign soil.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Formeder, I want you to get yourself a horse. A horse,
he is one of these.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The French are going to set up their troops at
the bridge. Yes, blow it up and stay there, I say.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
My troops the forty third will be down the river
half a mile as there's a ford. You see, it's
a shallow place where the enemy might try to get across.
We will have to keep both places secure, of course, yes,
But but but what do I do with the horse?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Ride it? Man?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You will be with the French, But I can't say
I trust them and disciplined troops. You know, Yes, if
I want you to ride back and forth and keep
me informed, keep.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Your eye on em. Let me know the moment they
consider any monkey tricks. If he even knows what they'll
do next, malona er, I've never been on a horse before,
then it shill be quite an experience here the name
of Satan's dead. But no, it's down the beach. One
of the French I'm learning from those supplybers, I'm sort of.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And said, guillotinees are guillotine, yes, my lord did.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
They're taking it too Musiac and.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Setting it up in the town square. I've heard usual
to knock their heads half people than this, I must say.
It startled me to my lord. But the Marcus says,
some of the people in Musicac deserve it, and it
does in a revolutionaries began it, he says, and it's
unfair that the royalists should give them a taste of
their own medicine. And I can't say that I like
it myself. Oh, I liked it not at all. That afternoon,
(08:37):
after the bridge was blown up and the troops disposed,
the French set up their headquarters in Musiac. In the
village inn the guillotine too was set up. I was
in the kitchen where the French woman was preparing food,
and the window was open.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But said, it's only a drum.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
He comes from the v lech.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Squat on drum mansells real so you can see it
from the window. Here, fagilotin, we must see.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
They're about to use it too.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Five men with their hands tied behind their backs, and
marching one of them towards the stairs, leading us. Rather
not hear it, not'll see it. Mamselle. Thanks for the water,
but have you got something stronger?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Quiet colonel, he tells them, the great gentlemen, we must
enter our pro breakfast.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
We must saddle up at once and join our proof.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It would appear the battle has been joined.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Even now, when I think back to that day, my
legs peak at the sword. The horse I rode was
worse than any evening deck. I clung to his mane
and was carried back and forth between the bridge and
the ford, between the so called frogs and Lord Edrington's lobsters.
That every musket shot the animals started like a frightened stag,
(10:48):
probably so warm at about a horse you're sawing on
the races Till I rode I.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Was, hadn't they worse?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And that's.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
That's better? To my mind.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
A same on horseback is more dangerous than a regiment
of raw recruits.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well, what use for our friends?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Offense was very little, happening to no attack of any eyes.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
A few attempts for lords made by less than a
single company of the enemy beaten off, of course, several
shots from our cannons scattered and like pittings. The lord
the Marcus said that they're a rabbel army.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But the cannon fire was accurate, or sir, the cannon
a manned by British seamen and shipman Jack Brace directed
the fire. I know, oh, yes, yes, of course your
own cannon rolls. Short, of course, well it's a company.
I have one's own companment directing fires. And are those
roaring croups of buzzaars?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
How well are they holding.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Up the Well, there's no sign of panic among them,
I hope, not opposed by only half a company part
or the extremely odd.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
What's hard the lord? But there aren't more of them.
You you've had no trouble here either the company of
the enemy. No more. Don't attempt to cross.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
The fall in four.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I thought they were burning powder unnecessarily, so.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
They're not fool fondler literally, there's no harm in assuming
they're not hmm.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Homblow.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Does the French have any real god out towards Quiberon
towards Quibber?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Answer plastic, don't you hear a plain question?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Is there always not a real guard home? But but
that's behind it to the north.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
There can't be an it.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
A real garden.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Factor, then find out how the find out the one.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
There was no real guard out towards Kipperon and I
arrived at the bridge. I rained up for a moment
beside jack Brace's position.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Our commander of the Hofmanning Thorndler, mister Drac I was
your bln No no, I put him for.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A field marshle or raceway. Notice of what positive genius
I dispose my artillery?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
And how's dance matters with our red coat friend? The
lobsters are still standing. They're fine at standing.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Jolly fying question is can they unbend enough to fight?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
There's not been enough fighting to tell true enough.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
The same thing here. So I'll tell you this, my friend.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It may be treason, but I'm inclined to believe these
Frenches could give a better account of themselves than.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
The forty third foot.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't hold these spitt and polished lobster backs. One
attack and they cave in.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I'm sure of it.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Ederington's worried about an attack on our rear.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Issue Now I told the markers about it. Who's old?
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
He just shrugged? Answer enough.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
A one gesture from a Frenchman tells more than a
thousand words, asked me, Lord Eddington's a silly fool. I'm
not quite so sure that clears a bony nose on
his face. Real God, how can the enemy possibly attack
from the rear?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Now? Look here, hon bl Here we are up on
a good high hill, gives elevation, excellent spot for cannon.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Here we are, I say, we can see the entire
country behind us.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
If there's any sign of porn, cla, what are you
staring at?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I simply can't believe it. Dat it's just a cloud
of doubts. What mean enforced behind us? Race ready? They're
ready to attack us from the rear.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Look out here guns jack by will But I donn't
warn Lord Eddington.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
You'll find Come on and thank her the amen, Lord
the elemen that comics.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I expected nothing else from the direction of could I
didn't believe it was possible, saying all all things are possible.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Cover of them.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
They were saying a diverse reaction in.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Front of us. That meanwhile, just that our main forces
of quipper answer it was for Lord.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Must have been overwhelmed somehow.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Because the marquee force holding out for it looks at well.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
They seemed badly disorganized when I left her.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No trading and discipline. I expect they'll run like that.
Oh no, no they won't. What's the stub them.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And disciplined troops, no type of training. Some attacked from
unexpected call.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
They're they're brave soldier.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Says I've observed. That's what's braverly got to do with it? Discipline, hormber,
Let's the requirement.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Discipline? What did I tell you here? They company like sits.
We shall have to have a retreat.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Retreats are of course then the saws, but we should
We shall never make it so we will be overwhelmed,
I think not. So began what was to me an
incredible experience. Landis streamed the ruffed royalists, frantic with fear.
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The enemy launched attack after attack. A troop of cavalry
bore down upon us. But meanwhile the British soldiers formed
ranks as this calm, as if on parade, the forty
third football former square if you please?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yes, what all of that?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
All into square?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Oay?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Well I love play.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Who such slow deliberate movements, And yet in a moment
it seemed there we were inside a hollow square of
red coated backs, and the cabaret came on.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
A god, stop them for the dim scrollers.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
The forty nine were resumed columns, and advance.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Was beaten off, but each was followed by another attack
and another. The sun beat down, hot and heavy as
a hammer on an anvil. It seemed as if we
would never gain the shore and our waiting ship.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Well, there it is in sight, at last the beach.
Mister down below, I see your boat.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Si is he taking off the boilers? So we'd best
get down there at once, my lord, nonsense storm. If
we do, we shall have the frenches on top of
everyone he's up to the forty there to contain the
enemy until the beach is cleared of everyone else.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I see an answer. Then we shall see about getting
ourselves off, And mister Ald could stop us.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Stand, would you say mister Grell, Yeah, Malon, it's the
only clear approach to the beach. And scanned they did.
The enemy attacked wave after wave, until only to break
and shatter on the firm lines of the forty third
men went down. The ranks closed up and stayed closed
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behind us on the beach. The evacuation proceeded. Finally the
last of the Royalists was taken off in our ship's boats.
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We ran the men on foot with their heavy knapsacks
and the regimental colors and our country's flag streaming above them,
and my Lord did drinking, and and I and his
staff on horse sawing at the reins to keep our
beasts from falling down on the steep slope and the
trample stretch of Sandy Beach. And then there we were,
at last at the water's edge, and we were in it,
(19:04):
scrambling through the surf towards the ship's boats.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Oh, there we found. I saw my Lord get away
on the arms way home.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, I say, old guy, he said, look at him.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I followed his lordship. Hum.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
He got his coat tails ringing wet expensive coattails too,
you can.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Be sure, so we did.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
But he got us all off royalists and all.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Oh Jack, you should have seen it, the whole battalion marching,
never out of step, form, square, aim and fire, you know,
march again, form, square and fired, and over and over
against it like a rock chairs, you know, Jack, Those
those lobsters advised that they're not bad in a pinch,
(19:54):
not bad at all.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
A ratio Hornblower starring Michael Redgrave is based on the
novels by C. S.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Forester.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Music composed and conducted by Sydney Torts, produced by Harry
Alan Towers
Cold, all hands back the quarters. I'm up because stand by,
let's have it better.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
One Broadside didn't do it to please Captain Bush.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Point us some pocket prince Puss ready pies already.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Is that thing, Michael Redgrave, as he has Forester's indominable
Man of the Sea Ratio Hornblower.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
In the years have passed since I was eighteen, I
had been in many lands, the lard distant ports of
Panama and Salvador, the islands of the Sea, Africa, Sweden, Iberia.
But in those days I was young Midshipman Hornblower on
his Majesty's ship, indefatigable. It was then that I first
set foot on any soil out of than my native England.
(02:19):
And yet when Midshipman Jack Brace and I stood on
shore at Primouth Harbor, had no idea of what was
to come. An expeditionary force was about would embark against France,
and Brace and I were being properly superior about the
files of soldiers who stood drawn up awaiting orders. I
(02:42):
remember how we nodded gravely to each other, Jack Brace
and I. But but even while we did leftenant Mason
turned and called to me, I crossed the key and
reported with no idea of what might be in store.
Sir old Blower, there's a special duty for you, Sir.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
This is Lord edw.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Major, commanding his Britannic Majesty's forty third foot, and this.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Is your don't mind a pendant mason. I'll handle this myself.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
He was her your name Hornblow, Yes, sir, it'll be
more proper if you addressed me with my law. I
issa Lord Hornblower, culer name, Hondler, family name, my.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Lord, the name Hornblower, and I don't get your back up.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
If it's your name, with your name and your saddle
with it, make the best of wolving.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Then lifting a plasmon here tells you see French.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well a little sir, a little name. If it is enough,
don't speak a word of it himself. Leave go to
the French themselves.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Mister Hornbler, there's a problem of communication between Lord Edrington,
commanding this expedition and the French forces. Sir, this gentleman
here alla me the Marquis de Possage, Brigadier General in
the service of His most Christian Majesty Louis seventeenth. Sir,
may I present to midchepman, Honbler, Monsieur le marquis, I have.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
This folder all long with dandire chattering long little take
us again on our way.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
There's a matter of tithes or ss. Yes, my lord,
the transport ships is standing by. We missed sail on
the type cour exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And separate transport and my battaliant on the French reached
the coast of France. Together, shore together, work together, all
that sort of rubbish. Well, Maason to the navyes Midchip
and holder.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I am certain there will be no difficulty mat all.
So you mean you mean I'm not to remain on
board the Indefatigable you speak French Cornbler, You'll be detached
as you'll go on board the transport which carries.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
The French crew.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Don't look, there's startles on. There's a big opportunity. We'll
only go on board. You'll land with them in France
if a cross channel invasion may make history. Don't you
know that England wants the boar bones back on the
French throne.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The convoys sailed on the evening tide. From the deck
of the transport, I could see the Indefatigable leading the line.
I hope very lost, but at least I preferred the
French Lord Edrington. I would never admit it, but almost
I believe he'd make a botch of the whole expedition.
(05:07):
We are not the only expeditionary force, monsieur. The main
body will land at keep on five thousand men. Well
that's a little better, serpent. I beg your pardon, said
I overreach my no, no, no, please to continue?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Well, well, even.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Seven thousand men, even ten or fifteen. The French Republic
has one hundred thousand. But observe the main army of
the revolutionary is where are they situated? They are here
in the south of France to come north to attack
our main force. By which way must they travel? I
see well by way of this road, precisely the coastal road.
(05:47):
And observe where we land we the small force of
British and French royalists. There is a bridge, monsieur.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And if the bridge is destroyed, the revolutionaries can be
held back.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Even so, my small faults, while our main body raises
the standard of his most Christian Majesty, Louis the seventeen I.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
First through all of Brittany, and then onto price.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We shall say France, monsieur, we the few men who
hold thebray jack Musiak. Next morning, the convoy rounded belly
(06:53):
and dropped anker. There was Mooziak, and beyond it lay
the Villain River, and there was the bridge. The invasion
draft went ashore without a single shot being fired. My
feet were wet with salt water. But for the first
time in my young life, I was standing on foreign soil.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Formeder, I want you to get yourself a horse. A horse,
he is one of these.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The French are going to set up their troops at
the bridge. Yes, blow it up and stay there, I say.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
My troops the forty third will be down the river
half a mile as there's a ford. You see, it's
a shallow place where the enemy might try to get across.
We will have to keep both places secure, of course, yes,
But but but what do I do with the horse?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Ride it? Man?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You will be with the French, But I can't say
I trust them and disciplined troops. You know, Yes, if
I want you to ride back and forth and keep
me informed, keep.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Your eye on em. Let me know the moment they
consider any monkey tricks. If he even knows what they'll
do next, malona er, I've never been on a horse before,
then it shill be quite an experience here the name
of Satan's dead. But no, it's down the beach. One
of the French I'm learning from those supplybers, I'm sort of.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And said, guillotinees are guillotine, yes, my lord did.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
They're taking it too Musiac and.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Setting it up in the town square. I've heard usual
to knock their heads half people than this, I must say.
It startled me to my lord. But the Marcus says,
some of the people in Musicac deserve it, and it
does in a revolutionaries began it, he says, and it's
unfair that the royalists should give them a taste of
their own medicine. And I can't say that I like
it myself. Oh, I liked it not at all. That afternoon,
(08:37):
after the bridge was blown up and the troops disposed,
the French set up their headquarters in Musiac. In the
village inn the guillotine too was set up. I was
in the kitchen where the French woman was preparing food,
and the window was open.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But said, it's only a drum.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
He comes from the v lech.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Squat on drum mansells real so you can see it
from the window. Here, fagilotin, we must see.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
They're about to use it too.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Five men with their hands tied behind their backs, and
marching one of them towards the stairs, leading us. Rather
not hear it, not'll see it. Mamselle. Thanks for the water,
but have you got something stronger?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Quiet colonel, he tells them, the great gentlemen, we must
enter our pro breakfast.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
We must saddle up at once and join our proof.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It would appear the battle has been joined.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Even now, when I think back to that day, my
legs peak at the sword. The horse I rode was
worse than any evening deck. I clung to his mane
and was carried back and forth between the bridge and
the ford, between the so called frogs and Lord Edrington's lobsters.
That every musket shot the animals started like a frightened stag,
(10:48):
probably so warm at about a horse you're sawing on
the races Till I rode I.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Was, hadn't they worse?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And that's.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
That's better? To my mind.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
A same on horseback is more dangerous than a regiment
of raw recruits.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well, what use for our friends?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Offense was very little, happening to no attack of any eyes.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
A few attempts for lords made by less than a
single company of the enemy beaten off, of course, several
shots from our cannons scattered and like pittings. The lord
the Marcus said that they're a rabbel army.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But the cannon fire was accurate, or sir, the cannon
a manned by British seamen and shipman Jack Brace directed
the fire. I know, oh, yes, yes, of course your
own cannon rolls. Short, of course, well it's a company.
I have one's own companment directing fires. And are those
roaring croups of buzzaars?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
How well are they holding.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Up the Well, there's no sign of panic among them,
I hope, not opposed by only half a company part
or the extremely odd.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
What's hard the lord? But there aren't more of them.
You you've had no trouble here either the company of
the enemy. No more. Don't attempt to cross.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
The fall in four.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I thought they were burning powder unnecessarily, so.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
They're not fool fondler literally, there's no harm in assuming
they're not hmm.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Homblow.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Does the French have any real god out towards Quiberon
towards Quibber?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Answer plastic, don't you hear a plain question?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Is there always not a real guard home? But but
that's behind it to the north.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
There can't be an it.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
A real garden.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Factor, then find out how the find out the one.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
There was no real guard out towards Kipperon and I
arrived at the bridge. I rained up for a moment
beside jack Brace's position.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Our commander of the Hofmanning Thorndler, mister Drac I was
your bln No no, I put him for.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
A field marshle or raceway. Notice of what positive genius
I dispose my artillery?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
And how's dance matters with our red coat friend? The
lobsters are still standing. They're fine at standing.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Jolly fying question is can they unbend enough to fight?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
There's not been enough fighting to tell true enough.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
The same thing here. So I'll tell you this, my friend.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It may be treason, but I'm inclined to believe these
Frenches could give a better account of themselves than.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
The forty third foot.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't hold these spitt and polished lobster backs. One
attack and they cave in.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
I'm sure of it.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Ederington's worried about an attack on our rear.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Issue Now I told the markers about it. Who's old?
What did he say?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (13:30):
He just shrugged? Answer enough.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
A one gesture from a Frenchman tells more than a
thousand words, asked me, Lord Eddington's a silly fool. I'm
not quite so sure that clears a bony nose on
his face. Real God, how can the enemy possibly attack
from the rear?
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Now? Look here, hon bl Here we are up on
a good high hill, gives elevation, excellent spot for cannon.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Here we are, I say, we can see the entire
country behind us.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
If there's any sign of porn, cla, what are you
staring at?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I simply can't believe it. Dat it's just a cloud
of doubts. What mean enforced behind us? Race ready? They're
ready to attack us from the rear.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Look out here guns jack by will But I donn't
warn Lord Eddington.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
You'll find Come on and thank her the amen, Lord
the elemen that comics.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I expected nothing else from the direction of could I
didn't believe it was possible, saying all all things are possible.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Cover of them.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
They were saying a diverse reaction in.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Front of us. That meanwhile, just that our main forces
of quipper answer it was for Lord.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Must have been overwhelmed somehow.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Because the marquee force holding out for it looks at well.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
They seemed badly disorganized when I left her.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No trading and discipline. I expect they'll run like that.
Oh no, no they won't. What's the stub them.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And disciplined troops, no type of training. Some attacked from
unexpected call.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
They're they're brave soldier.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Says I've observed. That's what's braverly got to do with it? Discipline, hormber,
Let's the requirement.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Discipline? What did I tell you here? They company like sits.
We shall have to have a retreat.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Retreats are of course then the saws, but we should
We shall never make it so we will be overwhelmed,
I think not. So began what was to me an
incredible experience. Landis streamed the ruffed royalists, frantic with fear.
(15:50):
The enemy launched attack after attack. A troop of cavalry
bore down upon us. But meanwhile the British soldiers formed
ranks as this calm, as if on parade, the forty
third football former square if you please?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Yes, what all of that?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
All into square?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Oay?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Well I love play.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Who such slow deliberate movements, And yet in a moment
it seemed there we were inside a hollow square of
red coated backs, and the cabaret came on.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
A god, stop them for the dim scrollers.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
The forty nine were resumed columns, and advance.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Was beaten off, but each was followed by another attack
and another. The sun beat down, hot and heavy as
a hammer on an anvil. It seemed as if we
would never gain the shore and our waiting ship.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Well, there it is in sight, at last the beach.
Mister down below, I see your boat.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Si is he taking off the boilers? So we'd best
get down there at once, my lord, nonsense storm. If
we do, we shall have the frenches on top of
everyone he's up to the forty there to contain the
enemy until the beach is cleared of everyone else.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I see an answer. Then we shall see about getting
ourselves off, And mister Ald could stop us.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Stand, would you say mister Grell, Yeah, Malon, it's the
only clear approach to the beach. And scanned they did.
The enemy attacked wave after wave, until only to break
and shatter on the firm lines of the forty third
men went down. The ranks closed up and stayed closed
(18:05):
behind us on the beach. The evacuation proceeded. Finally the
last of the Royalists was taken off in our ship's boats.
(18:44):
We ran the men on foot with their heavy knapsacks
and the regimental colors and our country's flag streaming above them,
and my Lord did drinking, and and I and his
staff on horse sawing at the reins to keep our
beasts from falling down on the steep slope and the
trample stretch of Sandy Beach. And then there we were,
at last at the water's edge, and we were in it,
(19:04):
scrambling through the surf towards the ship's boats.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Oh, there we found. I saw my Lord get away
on the arms way home.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, I say, old guy, he said, look at him.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I followed his lordship. Hum.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
He got his coat tails ringing wet expensive coattails too,
you can.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Be sure, so we did.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
But he got us all off royalists and all.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Oh Jack, you should have seen it, the whole battalion marching,
never out of step, form, square, aim and fire, you know,
march again, form, square and fired, and over and over
against it like a rock chairs, you know, Jack, Those
those lobsters advised that they're not bad in a pinch,
(19:54):
not bad at all.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
A ratio Hornblower starring Michael Redgrave is based on the
novels by C. S.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Forester.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
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