Sharpe’s Revenge: The Peace of 1814. Bernard Cornwell

      

      SHARPE’S

       REVENGE

      Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814

      BERNARD CORNWELL

       Copyright

      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.

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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

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2009 ISBN: 9780007338726

      Version: 2017-04-26

      For Whiskey

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Map

       Part One

       Prologue

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Part Two

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Part Three

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Part Four

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Epilogue

       Historical Note

       Sharpe’s Story

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)

       The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       About the Publisher

      ‘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

PART ONE

      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