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This worries Major Nairn, the head of Wellington's military intelligence. He suspects that Ducos, his French counterpart, is scouting the route for a French invasion of Portugal. The village happens to be directly in the most likely path. Sarah's poem [2] conceals a clue to the captives' whereabouts. Sharpe comes up with a risky plan to rescue ...
Major Warren Dunnett of the 95th Rifles appears in Sharpe's Prey and then in Sharpe's Rifles as Richard Sharpe's commanding officer. On the retreat to Corunna in Sharpe's Rifles , Dunnett is captured by the French in the skirmish that separates Sharpe and the fifty surviving riflemen from Sir John Moore's army. [ 13 ]
Sharpe's Challenge and Sharpe's Peril were broadcast in the US in 2010 as part of PBS's Masterpiece Classic season. The complete series is available on VHS (excluding Sharpe's Challenge and Sharpe's Peril), DVD, Blu-ray and iTunes. The Blu-ray and iTunes releases have been remastered in HD widescreen from the original filmstrips, with the ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Major General Nairn: Sharpe's superior, giving orders while Lord Wellington is away in Lisbon; Pot-au-Feu: Sergeant Deron, who appears in Sharpe's Havoc, and is the leader of the renegade band of deserters; Obadiah Hakeswill: Sharpe's old enemy and former sergeant in the South Essex, now Colonel in the renegade deserter army
The Sharpe Companion: A Detailed Historical and Military Guide to Bernard Cornwell's Bestselling Series of Sharpe Novels. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255817-3. OCLC 41357573. Adkin, Mark (2005). The Sharpe Companion: A Historical and Military Guide to Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe Novels, 1777-1808: The Early Years. New York: Perennial.
Sharpe's patrol ambushes and annihilates a French column of reinforcements, capturing a resupply cart and a doctor bringing quinine for the comte's mother. Resisting the temptation to save it for his wife, Sharpe allows it to be administered to the ailing woman. One of Sharpe's men, Rifleman Robinson, is found with a local French girl.
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 ...