Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Sharpe's Company is a British television drama, the third of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. This episode is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.
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. The story covers January to August 1812, featuring the Siege of Badajoz during the Peninsular War.
At the beginning of the series, Richard Sharpe is a sergeant in the 95th Rifles serving in Portugal during the Peninsular War in 1809. When he single-handedly saves the life of General Sir Arthur Wellesley from three French cavalrymen, Wellesley gives Sharpe a battlefield commission, appointing him a lieutenant.
Sharpe's Company: May 1812 Continuity error: In Sharpe's Command, published October 2023 and set two weeks after the sack of Badajoz, Sharpe is stated to be a major (whether army or regimental rank is not mentioned), on detached service with a group of riflemen. The captaincy he regained in Sharpe's Company is also not mentioned. Sharpe's Command
Sharpe's Command is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2023. The story leads up to the Battle of Almaraz , which took place on 18–19 May 1812 in the Peninsular War .
Price makes his first appearance in the novel Sharpe's Company (although he has a small role in Sharpe's Battle, a novel written after but set before Sharpe's Company). He is a new lieutenant in the South Essex Regiment , serving as Sharpe's second-in-command in the light company, replacing Robert Knowles from the earlier books.
Sharpe's Rifles is chronologically the sixth, but the ninth published, historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1988. The narrative follows Sharpe and his unit as they are caught up in the French invasion of Galicia, Spain in January 1809 during the Peninsular War.
Sharpe's Challenge is a British TV film from 2006, usually shown in two parts, ... head of the East India Company's intelligence service. To test his loyalty, Sharpe ...