HORNBLOWER: [Ep.4] The Frogs And The Lobsters.

The Frogs and the Lobsters (. The Wrong War) is an episode of the television program Hornblower. It is set during the French Revolutionary Wars and very loosely based on the chapter of the same name in C.S. Forester’s novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and on the actual ill-fated Quiberon expedition of 1795. The main title is based on the often derogatory term for the French used by the British (as well as other English speakers) and on the red coats of the British soldiers. The secondary title deals with Horatio’s own duty to the Crown and the alliance with the French and his struggle with his own sympathy towards the French revolutionaries.