In a message dated 1/31/02 8:54:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, tigone@... writes: << Has anyone read Wilder Perkins' three Hoare novels? Any good? >> Yes,...
I'll be driving in that direction on Saturday afternoon, on my way to dinner with an old college friend and a ball in Riverside. I should drive to the cemetery...
Mark, Thank you for the URL for a reproduction of an Impress Warrant. Got it! I can "juice it up" in my MS Word program, print it on parchment paper and maybe...
... Seren- Book 1 (Hoare and the Portsmouth Atrocities) starts off in 1805. Apropos, I would say! Again, I really enjoyed these and became quite taken with...
Why "juice it up"? and 'R' is an abbreviation for Regina. Rex is Latin for King. This is the kind of thing you have to know about fo the period... Kids WILL...
James Goddard
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Feb 2, 2002 4:59 pm
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Hi Guys. I have just finished reading most of the "Young Hornblower" stories, and have enjoyed them immensely. Because I saw the A&E movies first, many of the ...
Dear Fellow Hornblower Fans, Does anyone have access to a copy of the original director's cut of "Captain Horatio Hornblower". This was as filmed at the Denham...
Whilst I like the Hornblower series, my favourite CSF book must be 'Brown on Resolution'. I first read it 40 years ago, expecting a treatise on philosophy, and...
... A note for film freaks. This Friday (8th Feb) at 1335 Channel 4 (UK) are showing "Sailor Of The King", which is of course the 1953 version of CSF's "Brown...
... roots are showing!! Must re-dye my hair!) ... Don't feel you have to apologise for your Trekkieness, as judging by the previous posts on the subject I am...
My fav is Atopos first and Ship of the Line second. I love all of them, but those two, I can put in that order. Ski :) [Non-text portions of this message have...
... Unfortunately, the list of CSF books I have read other than Hornblower is rather short, but I do love both of his Peninsular War novels, "Rifleman Dodd"...
Dawkeye, Here's Norton publisher's O'Brian website's URL: http://www.wwnorton.com/pob/pobhome.htm Mark Gutis...
Mark Gutis
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Feb 3, 2002 5:33 am
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Dear Members, While CS Forester has set the standard for all future writers in the sea storie genre, my second most favorite would have to be the Alexander...
... Try also http://www.HMSSurprise.org which is the home of the Gunroom. It is part of a Patrick O'Brian web ring and has links to an amazing set of Patrick...
... <vbg> "regis" _is_ Latin for king - as long as you are using the genitive singular form of the second declension masculine noun "rex". You might say "the...
I visited CSF's gravesite on Saturday. It is properly tended. The inscription reads: C. S. FORESTER 1899 - 1966 ... Bastanchury Road ... John Forester 7585...
In a message dated 2/3/02 6:57:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Thanks for sharing this with us. Maybe next time I am in California, I will go by and pay my...
... My favorite is probably "Lt. Hornblower", but I rather liked "The General", relating the changes in warfare seen during WW I through the eyes of an English...
In the novelized version of the "Starfleet Academy" CD-ROM game, Kirk mentions to a Starfleet Academy cadet (whose name is David Forester), that he has a lot...
Mark Gutis
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Feb 4, 2002 8:13 pm
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... a ... based ... General", ... of an ... discussed ... WW II ... Poles much). ... set in ... that one of the best stories that CS Forester wrote was "The...
Leif S. Kirschenbaum wrote: "My favorite is probably "Lt. Hornblower", but I rather liked "The General", relating the changes in warfare seen during WW I...
... Keegan or no, John, this story is a patent canard. What DID occur was, on one single occasion, a Polish cavalry squadron (roughly, 600 men, equivalent to...
As I understand it, Roddenberry did not base Kirk on HH, but Star Fleet on the British Navy. HH did NOT have a "babe" in every port, (What IS it with Kirk?)...
I DID HH, from the A&E series (Ioan and Robert Lindsay) but, because I don't own the rights to the images and don't want to sell (can't part with) the ...
Thank you, Marc, for providing corrections to stories that I had read in what appeared to be credible sources, but seemed to be rather "remarkable" for their...
... John Your father was right, and a sad tale it is. A friend of mine, still living, was the Duty Officer at Portsmouth who had to lay on the Destroyer which...
