[Sharpe 04] • Sharpe's Trafalgar

[Sharpe 04] • Sharpe's Trafalgar
Authors
Cornwell, Bernard
Publisher
HarperCollins
Tags
war , historical fiction , adventure , historical
ISBN
9780001056459
Date
2000-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
Size
0.35 MB
Lang
en
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The year is 1805, and the Calliope , with Richard Sharpe aboard, is captured by a formidable French warship, the Revenant , which has been terrorizing British nautical traffic in the Indian Ocean. The French warship races toward the safety of its own fleet, carrying a stolen treaty that could provoke India into a new war against the British � and render for naught all that Sharpe has bravely fought for till now.

But help comes from an unexpected quarter. An old friend, a captain in the Royal Navy, is on the trail of the Revenant , and Sharpe comes aboard a 74-gun man-of-war called Pucelle in hot pursuit. What results is a breathtaking retelling of one of the most ferocious and one-sided sea battles in European history, in which Nelson � and Sharpe � vanquish the combined naval might of France and Spain at Trafalgar.