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Cornwell and wife Judy co-wrote a series of novels published under the pseudonym "Susannah Kells": A Crowning Mercy published in 1983, Fallen Angels in 1984, and Coat of Arms (aka The Aristocrats) in 1986. Cornwell's strict Protestant upbringing forms the background of A Crowning Mercy, which takes place during the English Civil War.
Cornwell's best known books feature the adventures of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The first 11 books of the Sharpe series (beginning in chronological order with Sharpe's Rifles and ending with Sharpe's Waterloo, published in the US as Waterloo) detail Sharpe's adventures in various Peninsular War campaigns over the course of 6–7 years.
It is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy". [20] [23] Hence, Cromwell thought the victory was the greatest of all the favours, or mercies, given to him by God. The expression "crowning mercy" is frequently linked to the battle as it heralded the end of the English Civil War by completely destroying the last major Royalist army. [24] [9]
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Sharpe's Company is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1982.It was the third in the series to be published, but is thirteenth in chronological order.
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Sharpe's Sword is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell.It is the fourth in the series, being first published in 1983, though the fifteenth chronologically.
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