successes & failures of lieutenant hornblower from c s fores

C.S. Forester's Lieutenant Hornblower In the novel Lieutenant
Hornblower there were a few scenes were Hornblowerwas a success and
a few were he was a failure. In my opinion the first success of
Hornblower was when he used all the cannons onone side of the ship to
free them from the mud holding the ship. Another success was
whenHornblower suggested a landing attack on Samana Bay. The
commanding officer agreedwith his suggestion, and they put together a
landing party. Hornblower had the wholeattack planed and the
coordinates marked. His surprise attack on the Spanish at
Samanaproved to be a success. Once the fort was taken over he was
successful in firing red hotshot at enemy ships, even without ever using
that technique before. Then when thenegotiation with the Spanish took
place he had a brilliant idea to mount a nine poundcannon at the upper
end of the peninsula to prevent the Spanish from escaping. Thisenabled
them to turn down the terms of the proposal that the Spanish wanted and
get whatthey wanted without giving anything to the Spanish. These
achievements made byHornblower is what later earned him the command
of the Retribution, although hiscommand of the Retribution did not come
until later when the war started again. Hornblower had also had a few
failures that hindered his successes. Among these was when Hornblower
was using the red hot shot to sink enemy ships. This was both asuccess
and failure. It was a failure because after heating the shot for a
considerably longperiod of time the shot began to deform. This deformity
of the shot wouldn't allow it to fitinto the cannon. Hornblower realized his
mistake after one of the shots wouldn't fit into thecannon. This slowed
their operation down but didn't cause a defeat to them. The situationwith
Hornblower gambling is mostly in my opinion a success but it could also
be a failure. The way I think it would be a failure is that he lost a lot of his
money and couldn't affordsome necessities. Hornblower also won a
considerable amount of money and his playingWhist with Parry led to the
confirming of his command of the Retribution. I feel these examples

show both the success and failure of Lieutenant Hornblowerthroughout
the novel. His success lead him to commander of Retribution and his
failureswere small and didn't have great effect on his outcome.