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.