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Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
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"Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another....
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Richard Sharpe volume 23
Pub. Date
2024.
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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge, one from the North and...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
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History comes dangerously alive in this "New York Times" bestseller as Sharpe returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula, to battle against Napoleon's invasion.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Richard Sharpe is caught between the British army and a renegade Englishman holed up in a fortress with his own private soldiers, in a novel about the British troops and their struggle to take the Indian fortress of Mahattra in 1803.
Author
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the second installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam.
Richard Sharpe. Soldier, hero, rogue-the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles,...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
Sergeant Richard Sharpe, the only survivor after a bloody attack at the hands of a mercenary army in the Mahratta Confederation, vows to avenge the deaths of his friends.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
Description
When he goes undercover in India to overthrow the Tippoo of Mysore, Richard Sharpe is forced to take up arms against his true comrades to protect his false identity.
11) Sharpe's Fury
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the eleventh installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam. In the winter of 1811, the war seems lost. Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz, now the Spanish capital and itself under siege. Inside the city walls an intricate diplomatic dance is taking place and Richard Sharpe faces...
12) Sharpe's tiger
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
Description
The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn...
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Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Captain Richard Sharpe is given responsibility for a poorly trained and ill-equipped Irish battalion of the King of Spain. Britain's hopes of victory in Spain depend on Sharpe's ability to combat an elite French guard headed by the vengeful Brigadier General Guy Loup.
19) Sharpe's battle
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the twelth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam.
Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, led by an old enemy of Sharpe's, and suffer heavy losses.
The army's high command blame Sharpe for the disaster and his military...
20) Sharpe's Rifles
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Pub. Date
[1988]
Description
In 1809, Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful soldiers of the 95th Rifles in Spain, and he must lead them to safety through the enemy infested hills.