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Original Title:	Sharpe's Company
ISBN:	0451213424 (ISBN13: 9780451213426)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Sharpe #13, Richard Sharpe #3
Characters:	Richard Sharpe, Obadiah Hakeswill, Patrick Harper, William Lawford, Teresa Moreno, Thomas Leroy, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Setting:	Badajoz,1812(Spain)

Sharpe's Company (Sharpe #13) Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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Title	:	Sharpe's Company (Sharpe #13)
Author	:	Bernard Cornwell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	August 3rd 2004 by Signet (first published July 24th 1982)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. Adventure

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To stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortress—where his wife and infant daughter are trapped—while protecting himself from a fellow officer determined to destroy him.

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I really enjoyed this Sharpe book as it illustrated just how powerless Sharpe was to the whims of others more higher born then he. Everything he held dear looked as though it would be taken from him: his rank, Teresa, and then his new baby daughter. Hakeswill filled me with such repulsion: it is brilliant to read a character so utterly vile and real. I did also love the sweet moment between Sharpe and Harper when Sharpe revealed his love of stars: "You like birds, I like stars." And the loyalty

1812 British defeat French bastions at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajos, which are the 2 gateways in the mountains between Portugal and Spain. This allows Wellington access to attack Spain. Bloody, bloody battle and great losses at Badajos, where storm high, deep, thick walled fortress over water obstacles and steep ravine. Ladders up high walls, across moats, in the face of withering cannon and fires in pits. Quite remarkable. To stem the Napoleonic tide, Sharpe must capture a fortresswhere his wife

Sharpes Company follows the adventures of Captain Richard Sharpe, a captain in the British army in the early nineteenth century. Richard Sharpe, his best friend Patrick Harper, and the British Army lay siege to Badajoz during the Peninsular War. While preparing for the siege of Badajoz, Sharpe learns his promotion to Captain has been denied, leaving him a lieutenant, and without his own company. He also learns that his ex-lover, Teresa Moran, and their daughter, Antonia, have moved to Badajoz.

Another adventure in the Sharpe series. If you like historic novels, and enjoy those heroic tales that you enjoyed in your teenage years, these are the books for you. Be prepared for "glorious" battles and heroics. Next to the enjoyable narrative, towards the end of this book the atrocities of (early 19th century) siege war are becoming quite vivid. You can smell the gunpowder of musket fire and canons drifting from the pages - imbued with a tinge of blood and despair caused by senseless

Probably the best of the early series. The streamlined plot focuses on the historical fact and how Sharpe contributes to them. Cornwell charatezation stands out. With Teresa, Harper, and the evil Sargent Hakeswill all adding memorable plot points. Sharpe through a bit unfair of military bueracracy is striped of his captaincy and company. Both are turned over to a high born man who lawfully bought the captaincy. This gives our boy Sharpe the righteous anger that makes his character so compelling.

I'd forgotten how brilliant Cornwell's writing was. His rush of short sentences with escalating violence combine in Sharpe's case with a berserker insanity and (at this stage in his career) bitter ideation of death. The sack of Bardoiz was like repeated scenes from Goya. I had to go and look at his Disasters of War several times while reading this.I'd partly forgotten the writing because in between reading Cornwell and rereading him, I'd seen Sean Bean's Sharpe Series on TV. It was impossible

Another Sharpe book in which he overcomes the British Army's bureaucracy and snobbishness, plus a number of other objectionable characters, and wins the day by courage, intelligence and brute force.Just like all the other ones, then. But I couldn't put it down.