Sharpe's Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, another exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine that dangers that await them in Chile… |
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... the Winter Campaign, 1814 SHARPE's REVENGE Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814 SHARPE's WATERLoo Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June, 1815 SHARPE's DEVIL” Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820–21 THE GRAIL.
... 1820-1821 Bernard Cornwell. SHARPE'S DEVIL RICHARD SHARPE AND THE EMPEROR, 182O-1821 E E R N A R D CO RN W E L L * Perennial An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1992.
Sharpe's devil: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820–1821/by Bernard Cornwell P. Cm. ISBN 0-06-017977–5 1. Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character)Fiction, 2. Great Britain-History, Military-19th century-Fiction. 3.
The house was called Longwood, it lay in the very middle of the island of Saint Helena, and its most important prisoner had once been the Emperor of France. Bonaparte. They were not, after all, wasting their time.
That first glimpse had been at the battlefield of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo, when Sharpe and Harper had seen the Emperor, surrounded by lancers, in the watery distance. Two days later, before the bigger bloodletting began, ...