num_pages: 351
description: From 
  New York Times
 bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned
   
Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Sharpe’s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment, Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus – a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal’s ancient university city.Sharpe’s Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena’s crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die.
language: English
title: Sharpe's Escape
titlecomplete: Sharpe's Escape (Sharpe, #10)
characters: Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, William Lawford, Matthew Dodd, Richard Sharpe
genres: Fiction, Historical, Action, War, Adventure, Military History, Portugal, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 9271
places: Bussaco
series: Richard Sharpe, Sharpe
publisher: Harper Collins