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Sharpe's Enemy: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812 is the fifteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1984. The story is set in 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars .
When Sharpe returns to camp, Wellington, the British commander, decides that drastic action is required to discourage desertion before it can infect his army. Sharpe also reports seeing a Major Ducos, who accompanied Dubreton. This worries Major Nairn, the head of Wellington's military intelligence. He suspects that Ducos, his French ...
They are accused of stealing Napoleon's treasure, which had been concealed at Teste de Buch, the fortress they had captured in Sharpe's Siege, based on a witness statement by Napoleon's spymaster, Major Pierre Ducos, an old and bitter enemy of Sharpe's. In reality, Ducos himself stole the treasure, murdering the colonel who delivered it to him ...
Sharpe's archenemy, French Major Ducos (Feodor Atkine), proposes a plan to his emperor to split the alliance between Spain and England (and gain revenge on Sharpe). He has a French spy, la Marquesa (Alice Krige), write a letter to her Spanish husband claiming that Sharpe tried to force his unwanted attentions on her. Sharpe is forced into a ...
Sharpe accepts, mistakenly thinking it is due to his having slept with Helene (as have many others). Just after Sharpe disarms his opponent, Sharpe's commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Leroy, shows up and ends the sword fight, thereby saving Sharpe's career, as Wellington has forbidden dueling. That night, the Marques is murdered by El ...
Féodor Atkine as Major Pierre Ducos (episodes 5–12; guest episode 4) Matthew Scurfield as El Matarife (Sharpe's Honour) Jayne Ashbourne as Ellie Nugent (Sharpe's Gold) Peter Eyre as Will Nugent (Sharpe's Gold) Abel Folk as El Casco (Sharpe's Gold) Rosaleen Linehan as Bess Nugent (Sharpe's Gold) Hugh Ross as Major Mungo Munro (episodes 6–8)
The 2020 college football season has yet to produce any major college football coach firings. Michigan’s football program continues to spiral downward. The Wolverines have now lost three ...
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 ]