Record Added: 1/21/2019 Series Richard Sharpe Adventures #10 Setting Portugal Topic Historical Fiction Publisher Harper & Row Publishers ISBN 0060530472 Year 2004 Age Adult Pages 368 Description Printed dustjacket
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Captain Richard Sharpe, the inveterate self-made British soldier, returns in another thrilling adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe’s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment, Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus – a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal’s ancient university city.
Sharpe’s Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena’s crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die.
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Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe & the Bussaco Campaign, 1810
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