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Sharpe's Enemy. Sharpe's Enemy: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812 is the fifteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1984. The story is set in 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars .
Sharpe's Enemy: Directed by Tom Clegg. With Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Hugh Fraser, Michael Byrne. An army of British, French, Spanish and Portuguese deserters, lead by Sharpe's arch-nemesis Obadiah Hakeswill, has kidnapped two English women and held them for ransom.
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- Tom Clegg
- 1995-05-21
Sharpe's Enemy. (TV programme) Muir Sutherland (exec.) Sharpe's Enemy is a British television drama, the fourth of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. This episode is based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell .
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Jun 1, 1994 · When Lady Augustus Farthindale, a beautiful noblewoman, is taken hostage by a group of deserters, the dashing Richard Sharpe (Bean) is sent with the ransom. However, when the leader of the band turns out to be none other than his old enemy Obadiah Hakeswill, it soon transpires that Sharpe has been tricked and the ransom doubled. Special Thanks ...
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Sharpe's Enemy. In the winter of 1812, a group of deserters from all the armies of the Peninsular War - French, British, Spanish, and Portuguese - descend on the isolated village of Adrados, on the Spanish-Portuguese border. Led by Obadiah Hakeswill and Pot-au-Feu aka Sergeant Deron, Marshal Soult's cook.
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Apr 1, 2001 · Sharpe's Enemy is one of Cornwell's original Sharpe series, and the quality difference shines through. Prose is vividly descriptive, the situations don't strain believability (no conveniently-located sewer system this time!) and while the "formula" is there, in no way does the book feel formulaic.
- Bernard Cornwell
