Hornblower Addendum - Five Stories (Hornblower Saga)

by C.S. Forester

midshipmen should always be bellowed at, especially by a lieutenant with a very new commission.

And it seemed unbelievable that anyone would wish to escape from English overlordship — absentee landlords and Catholic disabilities notwithstanding — in order to submit to the rapacity and cruelty and venality of the French republic.