Commodore Hornblower | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Smallbridge - This is a town over which Hornblower is the squire and in which the Hornblower family makes its normal residence.

The Admiralty - This refers both to a building housing the leaders of the Royal Navy as well as the leaders themselves.

Hornblower's Baltic Flotilla - This is the group of ships that Hornblower is given command over.

Nonsuch - This is a seventy-four gun ship-of-the-line, a third-rate, two-decker commanded by Captain William Bush.

Riga and Daugavgriva - This is a Russian city on the Baltic which, in the novel, lies...
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