Sharpe's battle
Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, May 1811
1st U.S. ed.
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Publication
1995 - HarperCollins, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesharpesbattleric00corn
- Internet Archivesharpesbattleric0000corn
- Internet Archivesharpesbattleric0000corn_e1z7
- ISBN-100060176776
- ISBN-139780060176778
and 6 more
- Goodreads470828
- Library of Congress Control Number95010347
- OCLC Control Number32201905
- OCLC Control Number32390780
- Better World Books9780060176778
- Open LibraryOL1278592M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6053.O75 S48 1995
- LCCPR6053.O75S48 1995
and 1 more
- LCCPR6053.O75 S48 1995b
Description
As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of terror. Sharpe's Battle takes Richard Sharpe and his company back to the spring of 1811 and one of the most bitter battles of the Peninsular War, a battle on which all British hopes of victory in Spain will depend. Sharpe is given responsibility to lead an Irish battalion of the king of Spain's household guard, ceremonial troops untrained and unequipped for battle. While quartered in the crumbling fort of San Isidro, they are attacked by murderous Brigadier General Guy Luop's elite French brigade. Sharpe has witnessed General Loup's despicable was crimes before; to put an end to them, and to settle another more personal score, Sharpe must lead his company into the blood-gutted streets of Fuentes de Onoro, where thousands of French troops have amassed, in a battle to the death.
First Sentence
Sharpe swore. Then, in desperation, he turned the map upside down.
Description
The adventures during the Napoleonic Wars of Captain Richard Sharpe, a British officer who rose from the ranks. While in Spain he orders the execution of two French soldiers for rape, earning thereby the enmity of a nasty French general. By the author of Sharpe's Devil.
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