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...whole. Tommy Atkins still does great work for Britain in the colonies, but Tommy Atkins is seldom seen on the streets of London, Birmingham or Manchester. Heretofore Britain has always reckoned on her seapower to give the nation time to muster, drill and equip a force for Marlborough-Wellington offensive fighting on the Continent after war has been declared. The recent passage of a half-hearted conscription law points to a possible reorientation of British military policy...
...packed with jokes, plays on words; it contains nonsensical diagrams, ridiculous footnotes, obscure allusions. Sometimes it seems to be retelling, in a chattering, stammering, incoherent way, the legends of Tristan and Isolde, of Wellington and Napoleon, Cain and Abel. Sometimes it seems to be a description, written with torrential eloquence, of the flow of a river...
What love interest there is in the story plays only a minor and ironic part, centres around the younger (mythical) sister of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Forester's big guns are trained on Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
William Manam '41 plays the masculine lead opposite Miss Ruth Gillerman, Radcliffe '41. Miss Winifred Wellington, well known Broadway actress, returns to the stage in her first character part...
...throne at Madrid, "Loyalist" Spain had been reduced to only a small area north of Cadiz and isolated cities, far less than the approximately 50,000 square miles the Government still holds. Yet by 1814 the "Loyalists" of 1812 (with the considerable help of the Duke of Wellington's British Army) had cleared Napoleon's Army out and were again in full control of the country...