One of the best book quotes about 36-gun frigate hms lydia
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“In June 1808 Hornblower is in command of the 36-gun frigate HMS Lydia, with secret orders to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua and supply a local landowner, Don Julian Alvarado (“descendant” of Pedro de Alvarado by a fictional marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma), with muskets and powder.”