Horatio Hornblower - Delaying The French

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I say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Well, Lieutenant Mound, who commanded the bomb catch Harvey attached to my Baltic squadron,

well, he'd grown to imitate me in every gesture and speech and…

Oh, come well, but I had other things on my mind. Bonaparte's forces were laying siege to the

Russian defenders outside the city of Riga. Imitation. Well, the art of war seems to be that of imitation.

Well, it definitely was so in the belief of Juan Clizor, it's a Prussian colonel who had deserted

Bonaparte in order to oppose him and who was showing me the Russian earthworks and the lines.

You will observe Pomoda Hornblore from this vantage point up here on the gallery of the church tower.

We can see spread out before as the whole operation.

Where then is attempting to move up his heavy guns?

The classic method of certain. Now, from the line of the river diagonally up to the pine

booths, it's dug a trench. It is protected with best works. Huge baskets later fit with earth.

The classic method, I see. Then from the pine woods, another diagonal trench.

Yes, and so on and zigzag. Each kept him closer to our lines and till he has solid

breastwaxed behind which to impelite his heavy artillery.

Yes, sir, but how long before they are in range?

No.

Should judge two weeks. Two weeks?

It has been done this way since the days of Caesar.

Well, nobody will deny that Bonaparte wants to be another Caesar.

But you know guns heavy enough to batter down those breastwaxed?

It is no certificate.

I've got more to the board, my bomb catches. If we could, we could level him in no time.

No.

And why not do so, Commodore?

I said if we could, but that river isn't deep enough.

Sandbar, shallows, quicksands.

No, no, we'd run aground before we got within length.

I see.

So we must carry on the five-hour stays.

Betty, telephone close of it, there are some things that even the British Navy cannot do.

I have no student. Nothing was impossible to the British Navy.

I apologize, Commodore. I wasn't wrong.

I would hell the words that came rushing to my lips.

Goodwill even between allies is sometimes a frail matter.

Earlier we'd been warm friends, but now that the French approaches were moving towards Reeker,

I was asking why the Russian guns couldn't stop the enemy,

and they were asking why my ship's guns couldn't do the same.

I hurried back to Reeker, and there, on the board to front, I ran across left to the mound.

It's dusty here, but my photos are dry as a camel.

Well, Mr. Monde, if you'll complete your business, I have a moment before going back aboard the Nonsense.

Okay, sir. There's a mean over there, perhaps you'd join me in a glass of this

ambivirately they call vodka.

Do you miss England, man?

What? I said, yes, sir. Yes, I do sometimes, sir.

That's no reason to be ashamed of it.

I'm not, sir. Sometimes in the morning, just before I open my eyes, I think of home.

There's a honeysuckle outside my face in Hampshire. It comes in the window,

sweet and strong as this perfume.

You married, man? Yes, sir.

Long? Little more than a year, sir.

Children, we're expecting one, sir.

Oh, yeah.

Any day now, we're both hoping for a son, sir.

I sent a letter to my wife, the cam, carried it on her boy's back.

Might be there by now. I wrote her that if it's a boy, I told her to name him Horatio.

Oh, you do that. No objections, huh?

Oh, there's no reason it could serve me, Mr. Mindet. It's a common nightmare.

Hey, listen. There's nowhere to come from.

Well, Mindet seems we're not back in England, among the honeysuckle, hm?

Going back on board the nun, sir, I was both touched and irritated by mind and scared of worship.

What glorified me in his eyes, I certainly couldn't imagine.

Not one my ship stood idle in the midst of battle.

Line of clinch is here, but a battery here.

Their main flanking stores are behind a dike here.

Oh, water's close enough to spit on them.

Oh, come, look at the chart.

So water-bush, oh, too shallow for us.

I mentioned that to Plaza, it was not impressed.

Oh, then so do I.

Well, at least you understood it and mound understood.

Well, it's a good young officer.

Yes, he is, he's a fine filter, too.

You know, I find quite an affection for young mound.

Lifts in Hampshire, he says, as a home there, wife,

where I'm the child on the way.

How's he loud?

Oh, I never knew he was married.

I know that I never thought to inquire.

Not before today, I had to drink with him today.

Good officer.

Yes.

I don't need just come in for no breast works.

Dusty road from there to region.

My throat was as dry as a...

As a camel.

What's that, sir?

As a camel.

By heaven, Busser, I didn't.

I think of that before.

What's a whole gathering sentimental talk about home

and all that nonsense?

Busser, man, should keep his mind on his business.

And our business is wall.

Where's the messenger?

Hasn't worked?

Yes, sir.

I can't go into the office of the watch.

Would he please make signal to the bomb catch Harvey

for Mr. Mann to meet me on the saw at once?

I don't know.

Can't wait to come into our home, brother.

Can't wait?

Exactly, can't wait to come to our house.

And the general is now fifth.

Lieutenant Mann, and I may have your ear also.

He plays your common art.

However, I believe he's a fool, Zerendon,

which you're right here in such case.

You see, you will use camels.

We have no camels.

This is not the Sahara dance.

Yes, but...

The Commodore is an expert on ships.

Perhaps these camels are told ships of the death of it.

He's an expert on them all, sir.

Can't have one prize of it.

Shall we get down to business?

No, I'll make nothing.

Well, I hope not.

We're allies in this center.

Sink him in.

Sink him in.

Exactly, generalist.

While we talk, the Frenchmen move ever closer and closer.

Well, in this instance, gentlemen,

a camel is enabled, sir.

Mr. Mann, will you introduce these gentlemen

to the meaning of the word camel?

Yes, sir.

A camel is a method of reducing the draft of a ship.

How about kind of camels?

As the Commodore has already pointed out,

the water in the river is very shallow.

Two shallow for our bomb catches to come within range of the enemy.

Yes, yes, yes, I've been told this over and over.

Can I receive, Mr. Mann?

Sir, if two loaded vessels are lash-tightly,

one on each side of the bomb catch,

and are then emptied of their loads,

it will lighten all three and raise them farther out of the water.

That out of the water?

I do not yet comprehend, generalist.

Well, you have some barges in the river.

Yes, barges draw no more than a couple of feet of water when empty.

You will load them with sand.

Then empty out the sand.

The bomb catch could be lifted keen out of the water.

I see.

And yet we get close enough to bring the guns to bear.

Exactly, general.

We may commandeer two barges.

Big ones, prepare for this.

Once, come and don't bother us.

Good.

Oh, Mann, that's only one problem.

Yes, sir?

Are you going to steer them all?

Drawing less than two feet of water, they'll be almost unmanageable.

That's true, sir.

They'll drift at the mercy of the wind.

Unless, Mr. Mann.

By your word, sir.

A Daniel Rudder.

What?

Uh, generalist, now that's a very large auxiliary rudder,

set well behind the ships.

If it's big enough, it will compensate for the lack of bottom to the heels.

If you say so.

Mann, you'd also better pierce the sides of the barges and use all as well.

Yes, sir.

Good, well, we'll proceed at once.

How long do you estimate, Mann?

I'd say by tomorrow noon, sir.

Well, tomorrow noon.

You'll disagree, if I'm not right, huh?

It's come with your homework.

I didn't bother you in your camera, sir.

I didn't understand about them.

But these past few minutes, I have been observing the activities of the enemy.

Please, take this telescope and see for yourself.

We are beginning to move out of the big guns.

But by tomorrow afternoon, it may be too late.

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So the art of war is not entirely in the digital after all.

Just as we had refused to accept the inevitable, exactly so,

had the French Marshal Meydorm tried to hasten his timetable.

Welcome the camels progressed with borderline,

panic speed.

The barges were brought out from Riga.

The Harvey was left between them.

Tortures, reddened the darkness,

as the men labored to quicken the task to be done.

And by dawn, the lieutenant man was able to start toward the river.

Like three giant water bags, fastened together,

the barges and the bomb catch, began to move.

Starlet's ride on!

One side, pull harder!

Mr. Wilson, harder!

Mr. Wilson, push more, Mr. Wilson!

Push more, Mr. Wilson!

We don't have steered it away, Mr. Man.

I know, sir.

We're not deep enough in the water to get any bite against the current or the wind.

The Danube rudder doesn't compensate.

Even the rudder, sir.

We need a stronger puller, and we haven't got it.

You better drop anchor, Mr. Man.

But the French guns are moving up.

It'll do us no good to go on like this.

Our draft may be shallow, but we...

We'll only pile up in the soul water.

Pile up and sit there on the soul, watching the French batteries pound our allies.

There must be some solution, or let's hope we find it.

Well, we must find it.

The bank of Mr. Man.

Eyes up.

Drop anchor!

The French guns were moving up into position to attack the Russian defenders outside Riga.

And despite our bright promises, we seemed unable to give aid to our allies.

We'd raised the harveys by lashing her between two empty debarches,

but the wind and current were proving too much for us to handle.

It was an hour after dawn.

Not a deck of the harveys, a young face of lefton and man was grey with fatigue and helplessness.

We've got much time left, sir.

Not much.

Only the wind would change.

If it would back around behind us instead of being off the starboard.

Besides the French guns of the position by noon.

Yes.

If the wind shifted, we'd be in position two and shallow water right on Bony's flank.

13 inch shells loaded with explosive fire to that mutton.

That must be some replacement for a rudder, sir.

All right, trust there is.

Heading for the church tower, I took with me a warm feeling, the young man.

And I also took a signal man summers to Riga pose, so that we could get the bomb catch

and know the effect of its mortifier.

Colonel von Klaizovitz watched these operations with me.

Hello, Dolvig, sir.

Signal's ready for hoist.

They're even summers, stand by.

Pyser.

Colonel von Klaizovitz, the French siege guns of the position.

Come on, John, hold on a bit more.

Any moment they shall open fire.

We have to vote of your son.

Moving up, River and out, Colonel.

Yeah.

Oh, yes.

It moves to the opening.

It's an awkward craft.

It moves as fast as it can.

The French siege guns will be shut up behind those press works.

You see, they are piercing holes in the press works to allow the muscles to protect.

Yes, I can see.

I'll have it back with a useless against press works.

The harvey carries a mortar.

Huh?

Oh, yes.

Fighter jet, yes.

Very high.

Once in position, the shells will drop down as it from the sky.

I can't see the hope, sir.

General Estna will be here at any moment of self-personally.

Good, good.

As Governor General of Riga for Saile, Alexander,

he will be very disappointed should your plans fail.

I also should be very disappointed.

Summer's, there's the ready flag going up on harvey.

Yes, sir.

Ignore it.

Rise.

Signal response, sir.

Stand by to observe, mortar fire.

Stand by, sir.

Commodore von Blauer, your pitch is ready at last.

What?

Oh, oh, yes.

General Estna, at last.

I shall stand by your side.

Pleased to describe to me.

I will, sir.

The mortar is being loaded.

It's aimed by punting the entire ship black and arrow

at the target.

Summer's, make signal to harvey.

On target.

Fire at will.

On target, fire at will.

Why, sir?

Yes, one has been fired without delay.

What?

It's as fast as possible from now on, General.

That's what caught the press works, sir.

They've been nibbled.

A siege can destroy it.

Look, the mortar is split wide open.

Another gun destroyed.

Sir, there's a French home storm battery on the road.

Where do you see that, summers?

Coming up from the river.

You're thinking, man, it's right, Commodore.

The air hasn't been taken up a position on that point of land

below your property.

Yes, sir.

They will bring their guns to bear very soon.

Charge if you don't break off more action, sir.

At the moment, if you please, Commodore von Blauer,

we should be peaked if your mortar fires

continue as long as possible.

It is doing much better.

Well, very well, General.

It shall be continued.

Summers, keep an eye on that horse-dorn battery.

Hello, sir.

The catch is being fired upon now, sir.

Yes, I can see that.

French cannonball dropping all around you.

So I observed, General.

At last, Boulder raised a pound of water, very close.

Yes, close enough.

Summers signal to the harbour.

Discontinue of the action.

Why, sir?

She's got it, sir.

They stripped the anchor and out for the horse.

Give her the sails up, man.

Don't get your sails up.

Oh, come, boy, hurry up.

There, go the sails, sir.

She moved very slowly.

She remains within range still.

Yes, the wind would drop now.

I think she had been hit.

It is hard to tell.

There is so much smoke.

Yes.

She's moving, sir.

Why, she's alone.

Yes, not fast enough, Summers.

So, faster, man.

Faster.

She's reaching for deeper water, sir.

But she's still within range.

The French is there.

No, sir.

They're not tied together any longer.

Lieutenant Mound has cut the barges loose, Summers.

Once out of showwater, the harbour can move faster.

That's a silent sentiment, man.

French batteries stop firing.

She's out of range.

Yes.

Very close call, Commodore.

Very close.

But to work, it's an hour and a half.

Where do you work, it?

Commodore Hornblower.

Thanks to you,

I should estimate the progress of the siege

has been delayed by,

I should estimate by four days.

Four days, I should estimate.

Four days.

Four days is excellent.

It gives my catch little delays

that the final victory will be won.

Four days.

All at a labour and effort and blood and sweat and then return them.

I'm near four more days.

I felt inexplicably tired and worn out.

The main army of the tyrant,

Bonaparte, was marching into Russell and all.

We could accomplish this outpost with four days delay.

Sir.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Sir, Mr. Wilson is second in command on board the highway.

With your permission, I shall signal him.

signal, listen.

Yes, sir.

Land was killed.

Yes, sir.

One of the last shots from the shore.

I see.

Both sides.

I delayed signaling to discontinue the action.

I delayed till the last momentary.

He was a fine officer.

Yes.

Only I.

But he wrote his wife.

If his child is a boy, he's to name him out to me.

If only I.

If only I'd not delayed.

Now, fine officer, sir, was Mr. Mound.

Yes.

Sir, shall I signal from Mr. Wilson?

What's that?

Yes, Captain Bush.

Signal Mr. Wilson, everybody.

A ratio hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave,

is based on the novels by C. S. Farnersburg.

Wilson conducted by Sydney Torch.

Produced by Harry Allen Torres.