Contents
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…