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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 .
Rifleman Dodd is a quiet individual of Sharpe's chosen men, [9] based on C.S Forester's novel Death to the French fictional character, Dodd fights along with Sharpe from Sharpe's Rifles until being promoted to Corporal in Sharpe's Escape [10] where he goes missing in action and separated from the group, [11] however Bernard Cornwell never ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
Ducos, having arranged for his longtime nemesis Sharpe to be stranded, orders General Calvet and his demi-brigade to capture the fortress. Killick, who is reluctantly working for Ducos, warns Sharpe beforehand and gives him a hint about piles of burned oyster shells nearby. Sharpe's men are outnumbered ten-to-one and are short of ammunition ...
Sharpe elected to sit out and not participate in any of the NBA draft combine testing. He could have done himself a lot of favors in just going through the drills, showcasing his reported 49-inch ...