Sharpe Series Book 06
Narrator William Gaminara

The story recounts Sharpe's exploits in the retreat to Corunna. Sharpe's
battalion, acting as rearguard to the army, are cutdown by a squadron of
French regular cavalry. From then on the story follows the small band of
surviving riflemen (from the 95th Rifles) as they try to foment an uprising
in the city of Santiago de Compostela. Sharpe's Spanish ally is Major Blas
Vivar and they are fighting the Don's brother, the Count of Mouromorto.
We meet Patrick Harper and the core group of the surviving company for
the first time. Running along in the background is the other Irishman in
the series, Captain Hogan, who appears for the first time at the very end
of the novel. In this book, he sees Captain Murray's Heavy Cavalry Sword
as clumsy and cumbersome, yet in India he wishes he had such a heavy sword
to butcher people with. During his time India he used a claymore which he
found less cumbersome than the cavalry sword.

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