Sharpe's Battle

About this book

Sharpe's Battle takes Richard Sharpe and his company back to the spring of 1811 and to one of the most bitter battles of the Penissular War, a battle on wich all British hopes of victory in Spain will depend. Sharpe is given responsability to lead an Irish batallion of the King of Spain's household guard, cerimonial troops untrained and unequipped for battle. While quartered in the crumbling fort of San Isidro, they are attacked by murderous Brigadier General Loup's elite French brigade. Shrarpe has witnessed General Loup's despicable war crimes before, to put an end to them, and to settle another, more personal, score, Sharpe must lead his company into the blood-gutted streets of Fuentes de Oñoro, where thousands of French troops have amassed, in a battle to the death.