Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Horatio Hornblower
Sir Edward Pellew
Colonel Moncoutant
General Charette
Major Edrington
Admiral Lord Hood
Faure
Archie Kennedy
Mathews
Lieutenant Bracegirdle
Styles
Mariette
Master Bowles
Oldroyd
Collins
Stevens
