Sharpe's Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821Harper Collins, 2009年10月13日 - 336 頁 From 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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... horses on a hill slope , while ahead , where the valley climbed out of the thick flax into the bare uplands , a guardpost straddled the road beside an idle sema- phore station . The flag above the guardpost was the. 8. BERNARD CORNWELL.
... horses . When they saw the approaching party of Spaniards they spurred away toward a house that lay isolated at the center of the plateau and within a protective wall and a cordon of red - coated guards . The horsemen , who were ...
... horses and unnum- bered rats . 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 ...
... horse along the French ranks . Now they had come to his prison and it was , as Harper had said , hard to believe that they were so close to the ogre , the tyrant , the scourge of Europe . And even stranger that Bonaparte was willing to ...
... horses and take them to a meadow while Lucille organized beds for Doña Louisa and her maids , and rugs for Doña ... Horse Guards tell me where. 34 BERNARD CORNWELL.