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The Bussaco Campaign: Portugal 1810

Part One

Chapter 1

Mister Sharpe Was in a Bad Mood. A filthy mood.

Chapter 2

Robert Knowles and Richard Sharpe stood on the Bussaco ridge…

Chapter 3

Sharpe slept badly. The ground was damp, it got colder…

Chapter 4

Strangely, on the morning that the guns began to fire…

Chapter 5

The village of sula, which was perched on the eastward…

Part Two

Coimbra

Chapter 6

The British and Portuguese army stayed on the ridge all…

Chapter 7

This is splendid, Sharpe, quite splendid." Colonel Lawford paced through…

Chapter 8

The first idea was to break through the trapdoor and…

Chapter 9

A chief commissary came to inspect the food. He was…

Chapter 10

Ferragus and his brother went back to the Major's house,…

Part Three

The Lines of Torres Vedras

Chapter 11

Vicente reached sharpe and Harper first, outclimbing the two women,…

Chapter 12

Marshal André Masséna was feeling numb. He was saying nothing,…

Chapter 13

Sharpe struggled through the marsh to the edge of the…

Historical Note

The French invasion of Portugal in the late summer of…

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