Sharpe’s Sword: The Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812

Sharpe’s Sword: The Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812
Bernard Cornwell

Richard Sharpe, who alone can recognise the top French spy, is under orders to capture him alive.Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is just one man – the ruthless Colonel Leroux. Sharpe’s mission is to safeguard El Mirador, a spy whose network of agents is vital to British victory.Sharpe is forced into a new world of political and military intrigue. And in unfamiliar surroundings of aristocratic Spanish society, his only guide is La Marquesa – a woman with her own secrets to conceal…Soldier, hero, rogue – Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

SHARPE’S

SWORD

Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812

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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Table of Contents

Title Page (#ue89475b0-e8bd-5c63-a2d2-00503d90a346)

Copyright (#uc3ada1b0-e6b0-524b-b5b7-9928d6833a85)

Dedication (#ue7892bd2-050d-56f4-be77-b3b597333c7c)

Epigraph (#ue43a7e7b-533b-5f3b-ae2e-d1f691162e4f)

Map (#ue8b55add-1763-5aa8-b061-aafb5ac7b409)

Part One: Sunday, June 14th to Tuesday, June 23rd 1812 (#uf72686f7-1ab6-55de-900c-307c31c30fe4)

Prologue (#u7009dcca-996a-53fc-b786-ea24040b3ea4)

Chapter One (#u5e3ec853-25c4-5d12-813e-5062b2b43ab5)

Chapter Two (#u04ff0674-1870-5598-b4b4-6a4d1462cb10)

Chapter Three (#u9daf1aa4-f89a-5cef-8f74-c310e3a58a63)

Chapter Four (#u8ea1e889-2595-5d3c-8ccf-a500d98a140a)

Chapter Five (#uc3f1aead-e86f-5ffd-8155-55d86c8e4a8f)

Chapter Six (#u9167a6e4-c0ee-5e4a-b6aa-d7f30e388849)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: Wednesday, June 24th to Wednesday, July 8th 1812 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)