Richard Sharpe novels
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Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1799, the British Army is fighting its way through India in an attempt to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive his French allies out. Posing as a deserter, the young and illiterate private Richard Sharpe must penetrate into the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there. Success will mean winning his sergeant stripes; failure, being turned over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners--or his...
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Sharpe's triumph: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803 , Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
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Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe, newly promoted for his skill in assisting Sir Arthur Wellesley in the battle against the Mahratta, risks his honor, reputation, and fortune in his quest to thwart a treasonous scheme devised by his oldest nemesis Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1807, Richard Sharpe is "trying to protect the prized Danish fleet from Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions."--Jacket.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
Language
English
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It is 1809, a few years after Lieutenant Richard Sharpe's heroic exploits on the battlefields of India and at Trafalgar, and Sharpe finds himself fighting the savage armies of Napoleon Bonaparte as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control. Napoleon is advancing fast in northern Portugal, and no one knows whether the small contingent of British troops stationed in Lisbon will stay to fight or sail back to England. Sharpe,...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
Temporary Captain Richard Sharpe must redeem the disgrace of his regiment in having lost its colors in combat by capturing one of the gold eagles given by Napoleon to each of his regiments.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1981
Language
English
Description
An action-packed historical adventure from Bernard Cornwell's enthralling series on the Napoleonic Wars. A daring, impossible mission might just be their last hope. A year after the victory at Talavera, things are looking bleak. With Wellington outnumbered, the bankrupt army's only hope of avoiding collapse is a hidden cache of Portuguese gold. Only Captain Richard Sharpe is capable of stealing it-and it means turning against his own men.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2004.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the 1810 battle of Bussaco, Captain Richard Sharpe finds himself separated from his company and lured into a trap from which he must escape in order to rejoin the conflict and stop French invaders at Lisbon.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Language
English
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Captain Sharpe finds himself in Cadiz, where his aid is enlisted by diplomat Henry Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington's younger brother. It seems embarrassing love letters written by Wellesley have fallen into crooked hands, and it would be prudent to steal them back. More problematic is the approaching French army, which threatens to obliterate its outnumbered English foe. Led by Sir Thomas Graham, Sharpe and his men soon find themselves embroiled...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of terror. Sharpe's Battle takes Richard Sharpe and his company back to the spring of 1811 and one of the most bitter battles of the Peninsular War, a battle on which all British hopes of victory in Spain will depend. Sharpe is given responsibility to lead an Irish battalion of...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 13
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe is on a suicide mission, to the fortress of Badajoz to retrieve his wife and daughter. Outside the walls waits the vengeance-crazed Sergeant Obadiah Haskewill, a man determined to kill Sharpe.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 14
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe is involved in the war against Napoleon as the protector for the spymaster, El Mirador. He fights through a maze of secrecy and deception to save his career, his life and his sword.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 15
Publisher
Sharpe Appreciation Society
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 16
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Embattled once again, this time in the mountains of western Spain near the pass called the Gateway of God, Richard Sharpe faces a redoubtable array of opponents, including an army of deserters, ten fierce French battalions, and the contemptible Obadiah Hakeswill.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 17
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Prequel to Sharpe's Regiment: the invasion of France, June to November 1813.
An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive-a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 18
Language
English
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Description
With the Duke of Wellington set to invade France, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself without a regiment, and disguising himself as a new recruit, uncovers in England a web of treachery and corruption.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
In 1814, the Napoleonic Wars rage on as Britain invades France. Gearing up for a long and bitter winter campaign, Major Richard Sharpe and his company are unwittingly used as diversionary pawns. Faced with taking a French fortress while simultaneously dealing with American mercenaries, Sharpe butts heads with the bungling Captain Horace Bampfylde.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 20
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe, after winning the battle for the city of Toulouse, France, must find the person who has accused him of stealing a consignment of Napoleon's treasure.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 21
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Lured back to the army from a rural idyll, Sharpe's career culminates in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Embarking on an odyssey to Chile to find an old friend who has disappeared, Sharpe and Patrick Harper are asked by Napoleon to deliver a seemingly harmless gift--one that plunges them into a world of danger and intrigue.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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....