num_pages: 368
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: Michael Hogan, William Lawford, Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Matthew Dodd
genres: Historical, Military Fiction, Audiobook, Portugal, Adventure, Action, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Military History
ratings_count: 9272
places: Bussaco
series: Richard Sharpe, Sharpe
publisher: Harper