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Sharpe is a series of historical fiction stories by Bernard Cornwell centred on the character of British soldier Richard Sharpe. The stories formed the basis for an ITV television series featuring Sean Bean in the title role. Cornwell's series is composed of many novels and several short stories, and charts Sharpe's progress in the British Army ...
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Richard Sharpe is the series protagonist, a British soldier who fought in India, the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo. His tale begins in Sharpe's Tiger as a private in the 33rd Regiment of Foot. He earns the rank of Sergeant by the end of the book. Throughout his career, he is gradually promoted through the ranks, finally becoming a lieutenant colonel in Sharpe's Waterloo. He is ...
5 May 1993. ( 1993-05-05) –. 9 November 2008. ( 2008-11-09) Sharpe is a British television drama series starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, with Irish actor Daragh O'Malley playing his second in command, Patrick Harper. Sharpe and Harper are the heroes of the Sharpe series of novels by ...
- 5 May 1993 –, 9 November 2008
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Sharpe: With Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, John Tams, Jason Salkey. A series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars as he fights both Napoleon's forces and the strong prejudice of British aristocracy.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
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- 1993-05-05
- Sharpe's Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799.
- Sharpe's Triumph: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803.
- Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803.
- Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, October 1805.
Richard Sharpe, to the best of assumptions, was born in July, 1777, in a house near Howick Place, Westminster, London. His father was unknown, his mother being a prostitute who died in the Gordon Riots in June, 1780, when Sharpe was three.
Richard Sharpe is the fictional protagonist of a series of 21 novels and three short stories chronicling his career as a soldier in the British Army. Written by Bernard Cornwell, the series follows Sharpe's adventures throughout his twenty-two year career; originally only 11 books covering the Peninsula War, the author has since added another ...
