is not provided in C.S. Forester’s canon, but laying awake last night, I realized that since Hornblower’s birthday was given as July 4, 1776 in Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, it would be quite fitting if Hornblower died at the age of 88 on April 10, 1865, the day Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. A possibility for a great “Flashman”-like story about the great man in old age!
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