Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Ioan Gruffudd
as Horatio Hornblower
Robert Lindsay
as Sir Edward Pellew
Antony Sher
as Colonel Moncoutant
John Shrapnel
as General Charette
Samuel West
as Major Edrington
Peter Vaughan
as Admiral Lord Hood
Jean Badin
as Faure
Jamie Bamber
as Archie Kennedy
Paul Copley
as Mathews
Jonathan Coy
as Lieutenant Bracegirdle
Sean Gilder
as Styles
Estelle Skornik
as Mariette
