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  The Sharpe Fact File
Sharpe is denied his opportunity but the siege goes so badly Sharpe soon finds himself in the front line at last and, hurling himself through the breach and over bodies he manages to claw his way into the town just in time to save Teresa and his baby daughter Antonia.
Sharpe returns, this time with a troop of rocketeers in tow, and sneaks into the convent where the women are being held, helped by Kelly ho has decided that raping and pillaging doesn’t agree with him.
Sharpe is feeling very alienated, still the hated enemy in the Norman village, but for Lucille's sake he manages to convince the villagers to help see off the looters and he decides that perhaps settling in Normandy isn't such a bad thing afterall.
www.ozemail.com.au /~jriddler/fact.html   (6244 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - SHARPE'S ESCAPE: Portugal, 1810 by Bernard Cornwell
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and his men are on a scorched-earth mission as the book starts, seeking to destroy as much food as possible while herding the local civilians behind friendly lines.
Sharpe's mission is complicated by a Portuguese major who is ostensibly gathering information from the enemy and, not incidentally, selling food to them --- food that coincidentally happens to be owned by his brother.
Richard Sharpe is a thief and a rogue in search of gold, girls and glory, but he's uncommonly honest about it --- and immensely likeable as a result.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/0060530472.asp   (794 words)

  
 Sharpe's Triumph: Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (Richard Shapre Adventure Series No. 2)
Sharpe's Fortress : Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
Sharpe must survive the carnage and live to tell the tale of what will be remembered as one of the greatest battles of its century.
Richard Sharpe has been enjoying his sergeant's stripes for four years when he witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer and a mercenary army commanded by his nemesis, Anthony Pohlman.
www.literacyconnections.com /0_078611908X.html   (471 words)

  
 COURT TV ONLINE - Mass. v. Sharpe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although Richard Sharpe had several outbursts early in his trial, he had little reaction to the verdict.
Several months before the shooting, Karen Sharpe, a mother of three, had left the 26-year marriage and obtained a restraining order against Sharpe, who, she claimed in divorce papers, had abused her physically and verbally throughout their relationship.
On July 14, 2000, Sharpe confronted his wife in the foyer of the home where she was staying with their two youngest children.
www.courttv.com /trials/sharpe/112701_ctv.html   (779 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM - Mass. v. Sharpe - Full Coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Since Richard Sharpe was sentenced, a fellow inmate told authorities that the former millionaire dermatologist offered him $100,000 to murder Robert Weiner, the assistant district attorney who successfully prosecuted him.
As Sharpe awaits trial on the solicitation charge, his two young children are at the center of a heated custody battle between Sharpe's adult daughter, Shannon, and his slain wife's sister, Kathleen Lembo.
Richard Sharpe, a millionaire dermatologist with a penchant for cross-dressing, admits he killed his wife Karen — but claimed insanity.
www.courttv.com /trials/sharpe   (411 words)

  
 Richard Sharpe and flashman Bernard Cornwell
It 1799, Richard Sharpe is a private in the 33rd Regiment newly arrived in India.
Following directly from 'Sharpe's Battle' while quartered in the crumbling Portuguese fort of San Isidro, Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit commanded by the formidable Brigadier Loup, and suffer heavy losses.
Sharpe is sent back to England to save his regiment The ringleader know Sharpe is on their trail, and they try to kill him at every turn.
www.harryflashman.org /sharpe.htm   (631 words)

  
 Sharpe's Skirmish (Richard Sharpe Adventure Series)
Sharpe's Havoc : Richard Sharpe and the Campaign in Northern Portugal, Spring 1809
The French decide to mount a raid behind the lines and Sharpe's detachment is all that stand between the peninsular armies and a military disaster.
I recommend this short story to all of Richard Sharpe's fans but please read the entire series first before you make the attempt and this story will mean a lot more because you will be able to fill in the deatils with your own Cornwellish interpretation and detail.
www.onlinemerchantaccountnow.com /BookStore/isbn0972222006.html   (589 words)

  
 Sharpe's Prey, Sharpe's Havoc, Sharpe's Escape by Bernard Cornwell - read reviews
Richard Sharpe thought his worst problem was sharing his regiment, the south Essex, with Captain Slingsby.
Sharpe rightly is a little jealous of his command; unlike most officers, he’s had to earn his by shedding his own blood.
Sharpe is not always a sympathetic character, but he is exactly the man of the time that he would have been, were he a real historic figure.
mostlyfiction.com /spy-thriller/cornwell.htm   (1730 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - SHARPE'S HAVOC by Bernard Cornwell
There is a mission; Lieutenant Richard Sharpe must keep his rag-tag band of Riflemen safe as they rejoin Lord Wellington's army fighting the French in Portugal in 1809.
The first twelve Richard Sharpe books were all set during the Napoleonic conflict, taking Sharpe from an anonymous quartermaster in northern Spain to a battalion commander at Waterloo.
Sharpe and Harper witness a horrific bridge collapse, defend a remote mountaintop fort and lead the way for a daring British invasion of a Portuguese seminary.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0060530464.asp   (614 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Sharpe's Trafalgar: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sharpe is at the thick of things again, but this time not on the battlefield, but on the high seas.
Sharpe's Trafalgar does for Sharpe what Sharpe's Devil was unable to accomplish, that is, keep Sharpe's character alive without the British Army.
Sharpe is as curmudgeonly and irritating to the upper classes as usual, but in all things heroic as we have come to expect.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0002258749   (1154 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
Sharpe's Fortress is the 17th in Bernard Cornwell's series starring this colonial British soldier who has risen in the ranks despite blunders and misadventures, not to mention his own suspicions of the men around him.
Sharpe is again with his back up against a wall in having to deal with both men and officers who resent that he's been "brought up", and facing his old nemesis, the twitching and sly Obadiah Hakeswill, once more.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0061098639   (1319 words)

  
 Richard Sharpe : Reviews : TV Movies : Sean Bean : Sharpe's : Rifles : Company : Enemy : Eagle : Honour : Sword : Gold ...
Sharpe not only has to hunt out a traitor and French spy, but finds himself battling an enemy who is as ruthless and dangerous as himself.
Sharpe finds himself at odds with his snobbish new commanding officer and captures a French Eagle at the battle of Talavera.
Sharpe must not only fight the French, but also take on an army of deserters that includes his detested old enemy Hakeswill.
www.napoleonguide.com /sharpe.htm   (412 words)

  
 Richard Sharpe played by Sean Bean
Richard Sharpe is a maverick British officer who rises through the ranks in Wellingtons Army, initially after saving Wellingtons life.
The Sharpe novels from the earlier period are concerned with British Army action in India.
Sharpe's Prey, is set during 1807 and Sharpe finds himself in Copenhagen and involved in a desperate siege to stop Napoleon's forces from seizing the Danish Fleet.
www.full-of-beans.net /sharpe/index.html   (363 words)

  
 Bernard Cornwell - The Author's Official Site - Sharpe Books dot com
It was also about that time that the Sharpe Appreciation Society was founded and anyone who wants to know more about the society and its many activities should follow the link below.
I am still writing Sharpe books and, as each one is finished, I shall add it to the list on this website.
Sharpe's Tiger is set in 1799, yet it was written after Sharpe's Waterloo which takes place in 1815).
www.bernardcornwell.net /index2.cfm?page=1&SeriesId=1   (393 words)

  
 Professor Richard Sharpe
The first phase, compiling a database in MS-Access of all the known acta of William I, William II, Henry I, and Stephen (including those of queens and regents), was completed in 2001-2 by Nicholas Karn and me (funded by a major project grant from the Aurelius Trust).
The text of the Latin Sermon delivered by Professor Richard Sharpe in the University Church on Sunday, 19 January 2003 is available.
The text of the lecture delivered at the Sorbonne, 18 September 2003, under the auspices of Prof Jean-Philippe Genet and the organisation APICES is available.
www.history.ox.ac.uk /sharpe   (856 words)

  
 Books : Sharpe's Skirmish (Richard Sharpe Adventure Series)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sharpe's Regiment: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of France, June to November 1813 (Sharpe's Adventures)
It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair.
While recovering from a wound, Sharpe is assigned with is company to guard a commissary officer who is taking possession of some...
www.arabiadirectory.com /0972222006/Sharpes_Skirmish_Richard_Sharpe_Adventure_Series.shtml   (556 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It's 1805, and Sharpe now a commissioned officer is on his way home from India when some reasonably plausible events put him aboard a British ship of the line, which happens to reach the coast of Spain just as...
Richard Sharpe, the heroic rifleman, was created by Bernard Cornwell as a way of following the career of the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular war.
But Sharpe had to be moved from India to Spain, and Cornwell cheekily hijacked this opportunity to introduce his diamond in the rough to the other great British war hero of the Napoleonic era, Admiral Nelson.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0061098620   (1081 words)

  
 Sean Bean - as Richard Sharpe in the Sharpe films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sharpe has been promoted from the ranks, very unusual in its day, so he has the resentment of the "gentlemen" officers, and also that of the men, who assume he is no better than them.
In the first film, Sharpe's Rifles, we are introduced to the Riflemen who will become the Chosen Men, and Sharpe has to forge both respect and friendship with their soon-to-be Sergeant, Patrick Harper.
Sean as Sharpe model kit (12 inches tall) is available from Frontier Models (see new releases page), either as a kit or fully assembled and painted, and also direct from Killer Kits (home page).
www.shipofdreams.net /seanbean/sharpe   (479 words)

  
 Chicago by Night - Richard Sharpe
Richard served as the consummate soldier, well skilled in the butchery of the 18th and 19th century.
Richards handsome looks and rugged features have caught the eye of more than a few ladies, and he has known a few true loves and betrayals in his life.
Richard still dreams of settling down with a good woman, but he knows his immortality makes that nearly impossible.
www.chicagobynight.org /WhereThereIsSmoke/characters/immortals/richard.html   (395 words)

  
 Crimes Against Richard Sharpe
The Crimes Against Richard Sharpe Chapter of the Sean Bean Salvation Society is devoted completely to the recounting and denunciation of the crimes sustained by Sharpe.
Sharpe further suffered the incompetent Lieutenant Trumper-Jones for a lawyer in his framed set-up of a trial.
Before victory was even a minute old, Colonel Wigram insulted Sharpe to within an inch of his life in a deliberate attempt to provoke a duel, which action earned the gallant colonel a sharp hit on both ends of the spectrum.
www.geocities.com /mewmewggr/Sharpe.html   (2435 words)

  
 Bernard Cornwell's Books - The Sharpe Appreciation Society
Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799
Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
www.southessex.co.uk /bernard   (300 words)

  
 Richard Sharpe and the Chosen men based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell
In Sharpe's Honor he became a Lieutenant Colonel, but died in the battle of Victoria.
In Sharpe's Company he join a Fusilier battalion, where he was a Captain.
In Sharpe's Eagle he took command of the South Essex.In Sharpe's Company he lost a arm at Cuidad Rodrigo.
members.tripod.com /%7Echosenmen/hisfriend.html   (516 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sharpe's Devil : Chile 1820 (Sharpe's Adventures): Books: Bernard Cornwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sharpe and Harper are shipped out on a Spanish frigate, which is captured by rebels led by the eponymous devil, Scottish Lord Cochrane, formerly of the Royal Navy, still the legendary scourge of the Spanish fleet.
Sharpe is separated from his wife and living in France with his latest mistress and their two children.
Sharpe and Harper become involved, unwillingly, in the civil war raging in Chile between the Spanish royalists and the rebels under O'Higgins (supported by Lord Cochrane).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060932295?v=glance   (2252 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Sharpe's Skirmish: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of the Tormes, August 1812: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sharpe's Skirmish: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of the Tormes, August 1812
As with Sharpe's Christmas, Sharpe's skirmish was never meant to be sold.It was intended to be given for free with hardback copies of Sharpe'sFortress.
Sharpe's Skirmish: The story as a hole is a good starter book, and didn't leave me annoyed as the "Filler" stories are mentioned,(Sharpe remebers climbing into a chimney space in Copenhagen, as seen in Sharpe's Prey) It was a very well thought out story, and not the rush job I expected.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0972222006   (677 words)

  
 Richard Sharpe Dermatologist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Richard Sharpe, 47, closed his eyes and jerked his head slightly...
Richard Sharpe, a Gloucester, Mass., dermatologist accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife in July 2000, is...
Richard Sharpe, 46, claims he was insane when he used a...
www.ihatepimples.com /37/acne-info1830.html   (503 words)

  
 Sharpe's Havoc : Richard Sharpe and the Campaign in Northern Portugal, Spring 1809   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The mid-section of the book is particulary compelling, when Sharpe has his men fortify a hill to keep them occupied, and then has to defend the hill against odds of 20 to one.
After leaving the Peninsular Wars behind for the last several Sharpe books, Cornwell returns to the roots of the series with this 19th entry, which occupies part of the gap in time between the first two (Sharpe's Rifles and Sharpe's Eagle).
Sharpe's Triumph : Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803
www.top-selling-dvds.com /0060566701   (974 words)

  
 eBay - richard sharpe, Fiction Books, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invas...
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 Bernard Cornwell - The Author's Official Site - Sharpe Books dot com
The first of Richard Sharpe's Indian adventures, pitting him against the sinister Tippoo Sultan in the siege of Seringapatam, 1799.
Like most of the Sharpe novels this one is based on a real campaign, and almost all of the actions described in the book really did take place.
Sharpe begins this novel as a private and his worst enemy is not the Tippoo, nor even the Tippoo's professional strongmen who had interesting ways of putting prisoners to death, but Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill who will continue to harass Sharpe all through the Indian novels.
www.bernardcornwell.net /index.cfm?page=2&BookId=1   (121 words)

  
 Sharpe's Skirmish (Richard Sharpe Adventure Series)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Furthermore, proceeds from the sale of this work are split between the Sharpe Appreciation Society (a UK fan club) and the Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation, also supports my belief about their role in this work.
The British are advancing in Northwest Spain after the Battle of Salamanca, and Sharpe is given the task of guarding a small fort on the flank of the British supply lines.
Sharpe's Revenge: Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814 (Sharpe's Adventures)
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 Amazon.com: Sharpe's Skirmish (Richard Sharpe Adventure Series): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sharpe's Regiment: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of France, June to November 1813 (Sharpe's Adventures) by Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe's Havoc : Richard Sharpe and the Campaign in Northern Portugal, Spring 1809 by Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell is the author of the best-selling Richard Sharpe series; the Starbuck Chronicles; the Warlord Trilogy; and the Grail Quest Series.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0972222006?v=glance   (1936 words)

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