The Frogs And The Lobsters
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The Frogs and the Lobsters (a.k.a. The Wrong War) is an episode of the television program Hornblower. It is set in the early years of the Napoleonic Wars.
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The royalist general in exile, a man called Charet, decides to rally the surviving royalists and invade France to restore the King to power. He calls upon the British Navy to ferry him across the English Channel, but one important thing has gone wrong. A lieutenant carrying a copy of the orders has been murdered and the orders stolen. Captain Pellew, who is in charge of the transports, believes this the work of French spies and pressures his superiors to call off the invasion, they ignore him and the army sets off for disaster. Horatio Hornblower, the central character, is assigned to a division of the invading army that is to hold the bridge at Muzillac, but the royalist officer in charge is a butchering madman whose obsession with revenge does nothing to help the doomed invasion.
