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Richard Sharpe first appears in Sharpe's Tiger as a private in the 33rd Regiment of Foot.He later earns the rank of Sergeant by the end of the book. He soon gains promotion to Ensign in the 74th Regiment but is then transferred to the newly formed 95th Rifles as a second lieutenant during Sharpe's Trafalgar.
At the beginning of the series, Richard Sharpe is a sergeant in the 95th Rifles serving in Portugal during the Peninsular War in 1809. When he single-handedly saves the life of General Sir Arthur Wellesley from a group of French cavalrymen, Wellesley gives Sharpe a battlefield commission, appointing him a lieutenant.
Sharpe is a series of historical fiction stories by Bernard Cornwell centred on the character of English soldier Richard Sharpe. ... and marries Jane (Sharpe's Regiment).
Sharpe's Regiment is a British television drama, the ninth of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. This episode is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell .
Sharpe's Regiment is the seventeenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1986. The story is set in England as Sharpe tries to find out why replacements have not been sent to the dangerously depleted South Essex Regiment in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars.
Characters in the Richard Sharpe series of books or TV movies. ... South Essex Regiment This page was last edited on 12 March 2010, at 15:37 (UTC). Text ...
In Tiger, Sharpe is a private in the 33rd Regiment of Foot, serving in southern India during the Siege of Seringapatam in 1799. It is also the first of three novels (followed by Sharpe's Triumph and Sharpe's Fortress) chronicling Sharpe's army service in India. Two others (Sharpe's Trafalgar and Sharpe's Prey) take place before the Peninsular War.
While patrolling the roads connecting the Anglo-Dutch and Prussian forces, Sharpe sees a large unit of Napoleon's Army of the North crossing the border from France, revealing that Napoleon does not intend to maneuver around the flank of the allied armies via Mons, as the Duke of Wellington expects, but instead to drive into the gap between the British and Prussian armies and defeat them in detail.