Hornblower is featured as living off his winnings from playing whist while a half-pay Lieutenant, and famously playing whist with subordinate officers before a battle.

The character is in part based on C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower hero, and NBC wanted the show to emphasize the captain's " rugged individualism ".

Not only did he take inspiration from Roddenberry's suggestion of Hornblower, but Shatner also based Kirk on Alexander the Great – " the athlete and the intellectual of his time ", whom Shatner played for an unsold television pilot two years earlier – and himself because " the fatigue factor weeks of daily filming is such that you try to be as honest about yourself as possible ".

Hornblower Cruises and Events, operating under the name Alcatraz Cruises, is the official ferry provider to and from the island.

Hornblower asserts that " it is a sign of Epaminondas political failure, even before the battle of Mantinea, that his Peloponnesian allies fought to reject Sparta rather than because of the positive attractions of Thebes ".

Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester.

Ernest Hemingway is quoted as saying, " I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know ," and Winston Churchill stated, " I find Hornblower admirable.

At the same time, Forester wrote the body of the works carefully to avoid entanglements with real world history, so Hornblower is always off on another mission when a great naval victory occurs during the Napoleonic Wars.

Described as " unhappy and lonely ", Hornblower is courageous, intelligent and a skilled seaman, but he is also burdened by his intense reserve, introspection and self-doubt.

Hornblower possesses a hyper-developed sense of duty, though on occasion he is able to set it aside ; for example, in Hornblower and the Hotspur, he contrives an escape for his personal steward, who would otherwise have to be hanged for striking a superior officer.

Returning to England, Hornblower is demobilized after the peace of Amiens, causing him great financial distress — he resorts to making a living as a professional gambler, playing whist with admirals and other senior figures for a modest income.

Maria is portrayed as a somewhat dull woman who dotes upon the irritable Hornblower in ways he finds distressing-she knows little of the sea, and annoys him both with her ignorance and her desire for social status derived from his promotions, as well as her hero-worship of him, which clashes with his eternally low self-image.

Once there, he meets the secretary of the Admiralty and post rank is conferred immediately when Hornblower agrees to take part in a clandestine operation that eventually leads to the resounding British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar that costs Nelson his life.

He captures the Natividad, a much more powerful Spanish ship ( Bush refers to it as a " ship of the line ", but Hornblower believes this is stretching a point ) but then has to reluctantly cede it to El Supremo to placate him.

This results in a kiss that is interrupted by Lady Barbara's maid Hebe — when she is sent away, the spell is broken, and Hornblower, engaging in his typical, self-loathing and second-guessing behavior, refuses to give in to his feelings again.

Hornblower is tormented by jealousy of Leighton, compounded by the admiral's dismissive treatment of him ; this treatment is due in fact to Leighton's rightly suspecting his wife's attraction to the famous captain, and feelings of inferiority towards Hornblower, but naturally the self-doubting captain is incapable of realizing this.

In The Happy Return, the first novel by order of publication, Hornblower was born June 11 in 1771.

Josiah was born in Staffordshire, England, the son of steam power pioneer Joseph Hornblower.

* Josiah Cheston Hornblower – born into Vanderbilt-Whitney lineage ( as a great-grandson of Flora Payne Whitney ).

Forester's fictional naval hero Horatio Hornblower was born in the village of Worth, according to Hornblower's biographer Cyril Northcote Parkinson The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower ( 1970 ), on 4 July 1776.

Notable people born in Chacewater include Jonathan Hornblower the steam pioneer, Matthew Paul Moyle the meteorologist and geologist, and Andrew Ketcham Barnett Mayor of Penzance and president of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.

He is rewarded by being created a peer as Baron Hornblower of Smallbridge in the County of Kent.

Having achieved fame and financial security, Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower has married Lady Barbara Leighton ( née Wellesley ) and is preparing to settle down to unaccustomed life as the squire of Smallbridge in Kent.

After arriving home, Hornblower learns that his wife has died in childbirth, leaving him an infant son.

Hornblower returns home to visit his young son, and finds Lady Barbara there.

He was survived by his daughter Mary, who had married Joseph P. Bradley in 1844, a future Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and by his son William Henry Hornblower, a Presbyterian minister whose daughter Emily married Colonel Alexander McWhorter Cumming, a long-serving Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey.

Hornblower has a son, also named Horatio, and is recommended for promotion to Post Captain as one of the final acts of a retiring Admiral Cornwallis, a real figure outside of the Hornblower novels.

After graduating Hughes began working for Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower where he met his future wife.

* The Commodore, a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester

The exclusive ferry concessioner, Hornblower Cruises and Events, also provides service to the nearby Statue of Liberty.

* 1729 – Josiah Hornblower, American statesman ( d. 1809 )

Two brothers, Jabez Carter Hornblower and Jonathan Hornblower Jnr also started to build engines about the same time.

The trial on determining the validity of the specifications which was held in the following year was inconclusive, but the injunctions remained in force and the infringers, except for Jonathan Hornblower, all began to settle their cases.

Hornblower was soon brought to trial and the verdict of the four judges ( in 1799 ) was decisively in favour of Watt.

Simon Hornblower and Anthony Spawforth.

* Hornblower, Simon, A Commentary on Thucydides.

* Hornblower, Simon, Thucydides.

* Whist also figures extensively in C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series.

* October 30 – Jonathan Hornblower, English pioneer of steam power ( d. 1780 )

* C. S. Forester: Horatio Hornblower series and others

* Captain Horatio Hornblower R. N.

* The Hornblower books by C. S.

Forester follow the naval career of Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars.