Sharpe's Revenge (novel)
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| Author | Bernard Cornwell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Richard Sharpe |
| Genre(s) | Historical novels |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Released | 1989 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Preceded by | Sharpe's Siege |
| Followed by | Sharpe's Waterloo |
Sharpe's Revenge is chronologically the twenty-first novel in the series written by Bernard Cornwell and published in 1989.
Unusually for a Sharpe novel the majority of its events take place during peacetime, with the Peninsular War ending (as true to historical events) less than a third of the way into the book.
The novel would mark the last time Patrick Harper fights as an actual member of the British Army, as he receives his discharge, signed personally by the Duke of Wellington, at the book's end (although he would of course be by Sharpe's side subsequently during the Hundred Days, and later in South America during the event's depicted in Sharpe's Devil).
Interestingly, the book also features the departure of one key character from the series, with Captain William Fredrickson and Sharpe's falling out at the novel's end, and also the introduction of a new principal character - Sharpe's third (and, so far as is known from the novels, final) wife, Lucille de Castineau.
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| Richard Sharpe stories |
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| by Bernard Cornwell (in historical order) |
| Sharpe's Tiger | Sharpe's Triumph | Sharpe's Fortress | Sharpe's Trafalgar | Sharpe's Prey | Sharpe's Rifles | Sharpe's Havoc | Sharpe's Eagle |
| Sharpe's Gold | Sharpe's Escape | Sharpe's Fury | Sharpe's Battle | Sharpe's Company | Sharpe's Sword | Sharpe's Skirmish | Sharpe's Enemy |
| Sharpe's Honour | Sharpe's Regiment | Sharpe's Christmas | Sharpe's Siege | Sharpe's Revenge | Sharpe's Waterloo | Sharpe's Ransom | Sharpe's Devil |
