Sharpe's skirmish /
by Cornwell, Bernard.
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BookSeries: Dyslexic friendly quick read: Publisher: Clevedon : BOTH Press, 2022Description: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781913603243 (pbk.) :; 1913603245 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Sharpe, Richard, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Soldiers -- Fiction | Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction | General | Adventure | War & combat fiction | Historical fiction | War storiesSummary: It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the French are planning a lightning raid across the River Tormes, and they reckon the obscure Spanish fort, which guards an ancient bridge across the river, will be lightly guarded. Sharpe is in for a fight.
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It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the French are planning a lightning raid across the River Tormes, and they reckon the obscure Spanish fort, which guards an ancient bridge across the river, will be lightly guarded. Sharpe is in for a fight.
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