Michael Hogan

Michael Hogan is the tritagonist of the Bernard Cornwell Sharpe novels and one of the deuteragonists of the first season of the television adaptation.
He was portrayed by .
==Biography==
===Novels===
Captain Michael Hogan was an officer in the British Royal Engineers stationed in Portugal during the Peninsular War. He also worked as an intelligence officer. He first encounter Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and his detachment of riflemen when they crossed the border into Portugal after being cut off from their battalion during the retreat to Corunna. He had them assigned to him as his escort and used them to flush out the treacherous officer Colonel James Christopher.
Hogan was given the task of blowing the bridge at Valacasa to prevent the French advancing into Portugal, taking with him Sharpe and his men, along with the South Essex Regiment commanded by Sir Henry Simmerson. Simmerson provoked a battle with French troops on the other side of the river, then tried to order Hogan to blow the bridge when several of their men were still on the other side. Hogan refused so Simmerson had him arrested and blew the bridge himself. Afterwards, Hogan reported the incident to Sir Arthur Wellesley. Ultimately, Simmerson was relieved of command at Talavera, with Sharpe being given the captaincy of the South Essex light company.
Promoted to major, Hogan sent Sharpe to collect gold needed to construct the Lines of Torres Vedras, and implicitly confirmed that Sharpe's destruction of the British-held fort Almeida was an acceptable sacrifice. He continued to use Sharpe for his secret operations, posting him as drill master for the suspect Real Irlandesa Compania and exposing their chaplain Father Sarsfield as a French agent. He was devastated when he believed Sharpe had been killed by Colonel Leroux and collected him from Salamanca's dying room when it turned out he had only been badly injured. He would later fake Sharpe's death when he was falsely accused of the murder of La Marques de Cesareas el Grande y Melida Sabiya, helping him go undercover to identify the real killers and a plan by Major Pierre Ducos to force a wedge between Britain and Spain.
Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, Hogan began to suspect a plan involving Ducos and the French aristocrat the Comte de Marquerre, but fell ill with fever before he could give the details to Sharpe. When Sharpe returned from an encounter with Ducos, he learned Hogan had died.
===Television===
Major Hogan met Sergeant Richard Sharpe around the time Sharpe saved Sir Arthur Wellesley's life and received a commission of second lieutenant. Sensing Sharpe would be unhappy in the officer's mess, Hogan took him under his wing and sent him on a mission to ostensibly track down the army paymaster James Rothschild. In fact, Hogan had already arranged for one of his agents, Parker, to retrieve Rothschild and instead intended for Sharpe to aid Spanish Major Blas Vivar in a plan to temporarily capture the city of Santiago from the French in order to inspire the Spanish population to rise up against them. Although the plan succeeded, Sharpe was left unhappy at being manipulated.
Hogan later accompanied Sharpe and Simmerson in blowing up the bridge at Vadelacasa, placing the blame on Simmerson for the loss of his regiment's King's Colours during a pointless skirmish. Hogan arranged for tensions between Sharpe and Lieutenant Berry, one of Simmerson's cronies, to come to a head by posting them on night patrol together. After the victory at Talavera and Simmerson fleeing the field, Hogan reported to Sharpe that his friend Lieutenant-Colonel Lawford had command of the South Essex. He warned Sharpe about his romantic streak, prompting Sharpe to suggest that he still had something that Hogan was aware he'd lost.
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