Daniel Hagman

Daniel Hagman is a supporting character in the Richard Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell and the tritagonist of the television adaptation.
He was played by John Tams.
==Biography==
===Novels===
Daniel Hagman was a soldier in the 95th Rifles. He was one of a small group of riflemen who were cut off from their battalion during the retreat to Corunna and ended up under the command of Lieutenant Richard Sharpe. He was the oldest man in the group and one of the few not to incur Sharpe's wrath by getting drunk while on duty. He remained with Sharpe when they were attached to exploring officer Captain Michael Hogan. He was wounded during the retreat from Oporto, with Sharpe insisting on carrying him along with them.
When Sharpe was made the captain of the light company of the South Essex, which had been made a battalion of detachments following its disastrous first action at Vadelacasa, Hagman became part of the company. He fought alongside Sharpe during many significant battles of the Peninsular War, including Talavera and Badajoz.
Hagman remained with the battalion, now commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Ford, after the conclusion of the Peninsular War and was still part of the light company at Waterloo. He was fatally wounded at the battle while the battalion was in square and under bombardment from the French. The now-Colonel Sharpe, who had taken refuge with his old men, sat with him as he died. After the battle, Sharpe buried Hagman with his own rifle, taking Hagman's rifle for himself.
==Television==
Hagman was one of the Chosen Men of the 95th Rifles assigned to the newly commissioned Lieutenant Sharpe. He had a reputation as a sharp-shooter, which he demonstrated by shooting a hat out of the air. He had an early bonding moment with Sharpe when he stumbled while crossing a marsh but managed to keep his rifle clean.
Hagman was one of the most prominent and longest-serving of Sharpe's men, sometimes taking on a leadership role when Sharpe and Sergeant Patrick Harper were both absent, and took the lead in delivering the absent Harper's baby son. He also showed a paternal side towards the group's youngest member, Ben Perkins. He proved his marksmanship skills by dispatching the treacherous Comte de Marquerre with a head shot from a distance.
Following the conclusion of the Peninsular War, Hagman was discharged from the army and ended up on the streets. He ended up in Yorkshire, where now-Major Sharpe and Sergeant Major Harper had been posted to the local yeomanry. Although he came to Sharpe's defence when they first met, his association with local rabble-rouser Mathew Truman and the fact Sharpe's unscrupulous deputy Captain Wickham led the yeomanry in massacring Truman's listeners without his approval saw him clash with them. They were eventually reconciled and Hagman joined with Sharpe and Harper in stopping Wickham and his men sabotaging one of their employers' rivals. Having become close to Sharpe's old friend Sally Nugent, Hagman stayed in the area afterwards.
Despite this, Hagman rejoined the army in the Waterloo Campaign. Sharpe, now a lieutenant-colonel on the staff of the Prince of Orange, made Hagman one of his sergeants. When Sharpe and Harper left the field in disgust at the incompetent prince giving orders that resulted in unnecessary deaths, Hagman remained to help defend La Haye Sainte. When the fighting spilled out of the farm, Hagman encouraged the Prince to flee only to be pushed to the ground by him, leaving him as a sitting duck to be killed by a French soldier. He died alongside long-time comrade Rifleman Harris,
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