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Sharpe participates in the Battle of Toulouse, at the end of the Peninsular War. On the other side are French General Calvet (John Benfield) and Sharpe's nemesis, Ducos (Féodor Atkine), who is in charge of Napoleon's treasury. During the fighting, Sharpe encounters and humiliates Ducos, but lets him escape with his life.
Calvet finds Sharpe, and the two form an alliance. The combined force assaults Ducos's villa, capturing the treasure and Ducos, but before they can leave, the cardinal's forces surround the villa (the cardinal wanting the gold and jewels for himself). Sharpe loads a small cannon with gold coins and fires it several times around the Neapolitan ...
In the subsequent novel Sharpe's Revenge, he meets Jane when she comes to England to intercede on Sharpe's behalf, and the two fall madly in love, while Jane is the guardian of Sharpe's fortune (looted from the French during the Vitoria Campaign in Sharpe's Honour). Lucille and Sharpe met and fell in love in Sharpe's Revenge, when Sharpe ...
Front side of historical marker at Lucille Times South Holt Street House in Montgomery, Alabama. Lucille Times (April 22, 1921 – August 16, 2021) [1] was an American civil rights activist. She was active in the struggle for civil rights in Montgomery, Alabama throughout her adult life. Times worked for the cause at a time when the city was at ...
Former President Trump said Thursday revenge “can be justified,” the latest instance of the presumptive GOP nominee leaving the door open to going after his opponents, even as he argued the ...
Sharpe's Revenge: Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814: 1989: 22: Sharpe's Waterloo: Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June 1815: 1990: 23: Sharpe's Assassin: Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815: 2021: 23.1: Sharpe's Ransom: December 1816, Normandy (short story) 1994: revised edition published 2003 24: Sharpe ...
NEW YORK — Most of the speakers at former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday trained their fire on Vice President Kamala Harris and the various national issues they ...
Games has helped the Times grow because news is a “crowded category and the market for subscriptions is limited, largely by ideology, and advertising against news is a declining market,” Brian ...