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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Aubrey, Maturin, Captain entitled The Fortune of War?
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conversations.value: The Fortune of War: HMS Leopard sails from Desolation Island to Port Jackson where she dropped off her few prisoners.\nCaptain Bligh is already handled, so she proceeds to the Dutch East Indies station and Admiral Drury at Pulo Batang.\nLeopard is declared unfit for guns due to wood rot, and will probably be a troop transport.\nJack Aubrey and his followers are to board La Flèche courier ship, as his next command, Acasta, awaits him in England.\nThe rest of the crew is left with Admiral Drury.\nMaturin learns the success of his scheme to damage French intelligence sources from Wallis, and relays the name of a contact in the Royal Navy, mentioned by Louisa Wogan.\nThey join a cricket game, ended abruptly by the arrival of La Flèche, which also brings mail to them.\nCaptain Yorke visited Sophia Aubrey before leaving England, bringing Jack a personal letter and gifts from her.\nAubrey knew Captain Yorke and Maturin quickly warms to this captain who travels with an extensive library and a piano in his cabin.\nAt Simon's Town, La Flèche learns of war between Britain and America.\nAubrey spends this time of sweet sailing teaching the young midshipmen while Maturin is engrossed in dissection of specimens from Desolation Island and New Holland with McLean, the ship's Scottish surgeon, passing their evenings with music.\nOne night in the Atlantic near Brazil a fire breaks out on board and all abandon ship to the small boats.\nA few hot weeks later one boat is picked up by on Christmas Eve, headed for Bombay and commanded by Captain Henry Lambert.\nSoon the watch sees a ship hull-up on the horizon, the , which Java immediately pursues.\nAubrey and his Leopards man two guns but the fight goes badly when the Java's foremast gives way.\nThe American commander makes few mistakes and soon the Java strikes its colours.\nConstitution returns to Boston to refit, having taken part of the Java for its own repair, then setting fire to her.\nCaptain Lambert dies of his wounds ashore in Brazil.\nAubrey is shot in his right arm, gravely wounded, and too ill to be put ashore.\nMaturin stays with his patient, and works with dr Evans, the amiable ship's surgeon.\nAll of Maturin's collections, except what he noted in his diary by words or drawings, are gone.\nDuring the voyage Maturin talks with a French passenger picked up at San Salvador, Pontet-Canet.\nIn Boston, Aubrey convalesces from his wounds in dr Choate's hospital, waiting for the next prisoner exchange.\nJahleel Brenton of the US Navy Department questions him, but Aubrey puts him off and pushes him out, realizing now why his exchange is taking so long.\nMaturin is reacquainted with both Louisa Wogan and Michael Herapath, and then meets their daughter Caroline and Michael's father George.\nGeorge is a wealthy merchant and a Loyalist in the Revolutionary War whose trade with China is interrupted by the present war.\nMaturin encounters Diana Villiers, still the mistress of Harry Johnson.\nHe is a wealthy American slave owner from Maryland who is active as a spy for his nation.\nJohnson visits Aubrey who makes a comment about Maturin that reveals too much to the bluff spy.\nMaturin suspects that Johnson and Pontet-Canet have turned their attention away from Aubrey, towards him.\nHe asks George Herapath to bring Aubrey a pair of pistols.\nAubrey watches the harbor from his hospital bed.\nPontet-Canet tries but fails twice to abduct Maturin in the streets of Boston.\nAfter the second try, Maturin meets Diana Villiers in the Franchon hotel when Johnson is away with Wogan.\nWhile searching Johnson's papers, Maturin kills first Pontet-Canet and then Jean Dubreuil as they come to Johnson's room.\nMaturin finds that Johnson had intercepted Diana's letter to him.\nHe offers to marry her to solve her problems of citizenship.\nDiana wants away from Johnson.\nMaturin sends a note to Aubrey setting up a plan of escape that night.\nGeorge Herapath allows the two to hide in one of his larger ships.\nThen Aubrey sails a small fishing boat and he, Maturin and Diana meet the thirty-eight gun frigate, HMS Shannon, entering the outer harbour on blockade duty and are taken on board by Captain Philip Broke, Aubrey's cousin and childhood friend.\nBroke writes a challenge to Captain Lawrence, the new commander of the thirty-eight gun USS Chesapeake lying in harbour, to fight one-on-one, which letter never reaches him.\nThe Chesapeake comes out in apparent pursuit of Aubrey and engages the Shannon.\nThe battle lasts fifteen minutes, until Chesapeake strikes her colours to Shannon.\nAubrey led a gun crew, his right arm tied to his body, while Diana sits in the forepeak and Maturin waits below with the surgeon in this victory for the Royal Navy.