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Flying Colours Summary & Study Guide Description
Flying Colours Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Flying Colours Plot Summary
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Captain Horatio Hornblower languishes in a Spanish prison, captured after the loss of his 75-gun command Sutherland. Tried by a sham French court, he has been sentenced to death in absentia and is shortly transported to Paris, with Lieutenant William Bush and his coxswain Brown, for execution. On the trip the three men make a daring escape and are taken in by a local Count who sympathizes with their plight. They spend the winter months preparing for a spring escape and then take to the Loire River in a fishing boat. They descend the Loire, steal a cutter, and make their way to the fleet. Hornblower returns to England, where he is received with public adulation and much political acclaim.
The novel opens with Hornblower on land and in a Spanish prison, just hours after losing a four-to-one odds naval combat with a French squadron....
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