✦ LIBER ✦

Sharpe's gold: Richard Sharpe and the destruction of Almeida, August 1810

✍ Scribed by Bernard Cornwell

Book ID: 100063718
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Year: 2001
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 175 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0451213416

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A year after the victory at Talavera, Wellington's army, outnumbered and bankrupt, is on the verge of collapse. Its only hope lies in a cache of gold hidden in the Portuguese mountains, and the only man capable of stealing it is Captain Richard Sharpe--even if it means turning against his own side.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Sharpe's gold: Richard Sharpe and the destruction of Almeida, August 1810

✍ Bernard Cornwell 📂 Fiction 📅 2004;2001 🏛 Signet;Penguin Books 🌐 English ⚖ 203 KB

With Wellington outnumbered, the bankrupt army's only hope of avoiding, collapse is a hidden cache of Portuguese gold. Only Captain Richard Sharpe is capable of stealing itand it means turning against his own men.

Sharpe's Gold - Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida August 1810

✍ Cornwell, Bernard 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Signet Classic 🌐 English ⚖ 142 KB

SUMMARY: With Wellington outnumbered, the bankrupt army's only hope of avoiding collapse is a hidden cache of Portuguese gold. Only Captain Richard Sharpe is capable of stealing it--and it means turning against his own men.

Sharpe's Escape - Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Busaco - September 1810

✍ Cornwell, Bernard 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 128 KB

SUMMARY: Only two obstacles stand between Napoleon's mighty army and its seemingly certain conquest of Portugal: a land wasted and stripped of food at Wellington's orders . . . and Captain Richard Sharpe. But perils from within and without threaten the bold captain of the Light Company -- the hatred

Sharpe's Skirmish - Richard Sharpe and the Defence of the Tormes - August 1812

✍ Cornwell, Bernard 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Sharpe Appreciation Society 🌐 English ⚖ 60 KB

SUMMARY: It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, th

Sharpe's Revenge: Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814

✍ Cornwell, Bernard 📂 Fiction 📅 1997 🏛 London : HarperCollins, 1997, c1989. 🌐 English ⚖ 204 KB

### From Publishers Weekly The 10th in Cornwell's series ( Sharpe's Rifles , etc.) is a corker. It is early 1814 and Major Richard Sharpe is still with one-eyed Capt. Frederickson and giant Sgt. Maj. Harper. Sharpe's French nemesis Major Ducos, in the first of a series of betrayals, has stolen a fo

Sharpe's Revenge - Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814

✍ Cornwell, Bernard 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 Penguin Books 🌐 English ⚖ 181 KB

SUMMARY: It is 1814 and the defeat of Napolean seems imminent - if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe, the battle turns out to be one of the bloodiest of the Peninsula Wars, and he must draw on his last reserves of strength to lead his troops to victory. But bef