SHARPE’S
REVENGE
Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814
BERNARD CORNWELL
This novel is a work of fiction. The incidents and some of the characters portrayed in it, while based on real historical events and figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.
Harper
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Previously published in paperback by HarperCollins in 1994
(reprinted four times)
and by Fontana in 1990 (reprinted four times)
First published in Great Britain by Collins 1989
Copyright © Rifleman Productions Ltd 1989
Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780007298532
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For Whiskey
Table of Contents
The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)
The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)
‘The Richard Sharpe novels are notable for their wonderfully astringent view of history. Sharpe is a man first and a patriot second: he is as likely to pick a fight with one of his own side as charge blindly towards the enemy’
Sunday Telegraph
PROLOGUE
Major Richard Sharpe had made every preparation for his own death. His horse, Sycorax, and his fine French telescope would go to Captain William Frederickson, his weapons would become the property of Sergeant Patrick Harper, while everything else would belong to his wife Jane. Everything, that was, except for the uniform in which Sharpe always fought. That uniform consisted of knee-high riding boots, French cavalry overalls, and a faded green jacket of the 95th Rifles. Sharpe had asked to be buried in that