Sharpe's Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810 (Sharpe, 10) by Cornwell, Bernard | Paperback | Fiction: War & Military

Paperback, 368 pages

Published: 2004

Edition: HarperCollins e-books (2004) 

Richard Sharpe series by chronological order, published order #23

Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810

It is 1810, and in Napoleon's determination to conquer Portugal--and push the British back to the sea--he sends his largest army yet across the Spanish frontier. But between the Portuguese border and Napoleon's seemingly certain victory are twoobstacles--a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe.

But Sharpe is in trouble. The captain of the Light Company is threatened from inside and out: First by an incompetent British officer, who by virtue of family connections is temporarily given Sharpe's command. An even greater danger is posed by two corrupt Portuguese brothers--Major Ferreira, a high-ranking officer in the army of Portugal, and his brother, nicknamed "Ferragus" (after a legen-dary Portuguese giant), who makes no claims to respectability, preferring instead to rule by crude physical strength and pure intimidation. Together the brothers have developed a devious plot to ingratiate themselves with the French invaders who are...