Number Title Subtitle Publisher Publication date Notes -------- --------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Sharpe\'s Tiger Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 Harper Collins 1997 The first of Richard Sharpe\'s Indian adventures, pitting him against the Tippoo Sultan in the siege of Seringapatam, 1799. 2 Sharpe\'s Triumph Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803 Harper Collins 1998 Sharpe, now a sergeant, finds himself alongside Sir Arthur Wellesley at the terrifying Battle of Assaye. 3 Sharpe\'s Fortress Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 Harper Collins 1998 Sharpe\'s first story as an officer takes him to the daunting fort of Gawilghur. This is also the last of his Indian adventures. 4 Sharpe\'s Trafalgar Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 Harper Collins 2000 Sharpe has to go home from India, and he would have left in 1805 and Cape Trafalgar lies on his way home, so why should he not be there at the right time? 5 Sharpe\'s Prey Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807 Harper Collins 2001 This tells the tale of one of the most obscure campaigns of the whole of the Napoleonic wars. The Danes had a huge merchant fleet, second only in size to Great Britain\'s, and to protect it they possessed a formidable navy. But Denmark was a very small country and when, in 1807, the French decide they will invade Denmark and take the fleet for themselves, Britain has to act swiftly. Swiftly, but not particularly justly. 6 Sharpe\'s Rifles Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 Harper Collins 1988 The beginning of the Peninsular War (the battles between 1808 and 1814 to expel the French from Portugal and Spain). The Peninsular Campaign occupies most of the Sharpe series and this book begins during the infamous retreat to Corunna. Sharpe and a group of the 95th Rifles become separated from the army and are forced to navigate french occupied territory. 7 Sharpe\'s Havoc Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Portugal, Spring 1809 Harper Collins 2003 Sharpe\'s Havoc is set during the French invasion of Portugal in 1809 and Sir Arthur Wellesley\'s devastating counter-attack. 8 Sharpe\'s Eagle Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809 Harper Collins 1981 It tells the tale of the battle of Talavera. 9 Sharpe\'s Gold Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810 Harper Collins 1981 Sharpe is assigned to steal some Spanish gold needed to construct the Lines of Torres Vedras but falls foul of a corrupt Spanish partisan and ends up in the besieged fort of Almeida. 10 Sharpe\'s Escape Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign 1811 Harper Collins 2004 It is the late summer of 1810 and the French mount their third and most threatening invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe, with his company of redcoats and riflemen, meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco where, despite a stunning victory, the French are not stopped. 11 Sharpe\'s Fury Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811 Harper Collins 2006 Sharpe\'s Fury is based on the real events of the winter of 1811 that led to the extraordinary victory of Barossa. 12 Sharpe\'s Battle Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811 Harper Collins 1995 The ghastly tale of the battle of Fuentes d\'Onoro, a bloody struggle on the Portuguese frontier which deteriorated into a gutter fight in the narrow alleys of a small village. 13 Sharpe\'s Company Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812 Harper Collins 1982 Tells the story of the horrifying assault on Badajoz in 1812. The British were in a foul mood, they had been given a hard time by the garrison and suspected that the city\'s Spanish inhabitants were French sympathisers, so when they got inside they went berserk. 14 Sharpe\'s Command Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812 Harper Collins 2023 Spain, 1812. Richard Sharpe, the most brilliant -- but the most wayward -- soldier in the British army, finds himself faced with an impossible task. Two French armies march towards each other. If they meet, the British are lost. And only Sharpe -- with just his cunning, his courage and a small band of rogues to rely on -- stands in their way\...\'. 15 Sharpe\'s Sword Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812 Harper Collins 1983 In which Sharpe carries his sword (a 1796 pattern Heavy Cavalry sword, an ill-balanced butcher\'s blade) to the extraordinary battle outside Salamanca where, to quote an enemy General, Wellington \'destroyed forty thousand Frenchmen in forty minutes\'. 16 Sharpe\'s Skirmish Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tormes, August 1812 Sharpe Appreciation Society 2002 (Short Story) It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the French are planning a raid and Sharpe is in for a fight! 17 Sharpe\'s Enemy Richard Sharpe and the Defense of Portugal, Christmas 1812 Harper Collins 1984 By 1812 a lot of men had deserted from the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese armies and some of them, too many of them, had banded together in the border mountains where they were led by a renegade Frenchman nicknamed Pot-au-Feu. They formed a semi-military group of bandits and their enemies all agreed on one thing -- they had to be crushed. Send for Sharpe. 18 Sharpe\'s Honour Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813 Harper Collins 1985 Pierre Ducos, the French super-agent, tries to end Sharpe\'s life and the series. 19 Sharpe\'s Regiment Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of France, June to November 1813 Harper Collins 1986 Sharpe is sent home to raise soldiers for his regiment, the South Essex, and once in England he runs into an old enemy -- Sir Henry Simmerson, once a Colonel of the South Essex and now, what else, a taxman. 20 Sharpe\'s Christmas Two short stories, 1813 Sharpe Appreciation Society 2003 Sharpe\'s Christmas contains two short stories, \'Sharpe\'s Christmas\' and \'Sharpe\'s Ransom\'. \'Sharpe\'s Christmas\' is set in 1813, towards the end of the Peninsular War and falls after Sharpe\'s Regiment. \'Sharpe\'s Ransom\' comes after Sharpe\'s Waterloo and is set in peacetime. 21 Sharpe\'s Siege Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814 Harper Collins 1987 Sharpe finds himself stranded, surrounded and with only one very unlikely ally -- Captain Cornelius Killick from Marblehead, Massachusetts. 22 Sharpe\'s Revenge Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814 Harper Collins 1989 This takes place between the end of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign -- and Sharpe pursues Ducos to Italy, though not before he\'s fought in the climactic battle at Toulouse which is Wellington\'s last victory in the Peninsular War. 23 Sharpe\'s Waterloo Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 to 18 June 1815, US Title: Waterloo Harper Collins 1990 The story of the battle -- and Sharpe\'s part in it. 24 Sharpe\'s Assassin Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815 Harper Collins 2021 Sharpe helps the Duke of Wellington root out a group of fanatical post-war revolutionaries in Paris and has to face an assassin bent on killing him. 25 Sharpe\'s Ransom (short story, 181?, appears in Sharpe\'s Christmas) Sharpe Appreciation Society 2003 Sharpe\'s peaceful life in France is disrupted when an old associate of Ducos, convinced Sharpe has Napoleon\'s treasure, takes his family hostage and Sharpe has to convince the local villagers to help him. 26 Sharpe\'s Devil Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820--1821 Harper Collins 1992 Sharpe, at last, meets Napoleon.