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Hornblower in the West Indies
First edition
AuthorC. S. Forester
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHoratio Hornblower
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherMichael Joseph, London
Publication date
1957
Media typeHardcover & paperback
Pages255 pp
OCLC16564559
Preceded byLord Hornblower
(1946) 
Followed byThe Last Encounter 

Hornblower in the West Indies, or alternately Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, is one of the novels in the series that C. S. Forester wrote about fictional Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower.

All the other novels in the series take place during the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France; this one, however, takes place when Britain is at peace, May 1821 – October 1823. Hornblower has been promoted rear-admiral and named in command of the West Indies Station (in the Caribbean) with a squadron consisting of three frigates and fourteen brigs and schooners. It is the last Hornblower novel chronologically although the short story ("The Last Encounter") is set later.

The book's five long, titled chapters can be read as independent novellas, much as the ten titled chapters of Mr. Midshipman Hornblower are a sequence of largely independent short stories.

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