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In the Hornblower adaptation 'The Frogs and the Lobsters', the naval officer Hornblower is largely antagonistic towards the aristocratic army officers and is jokingly accused of Republican sympathies. Did the Navy's relative egalitarianism lead to any real affection for republicanism?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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