Sharpe’s Fury: The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811. Bernard Cornwell

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      SHARPE’S

       FURY

      Richard Sharpe and the Battle

       of Barrosa, March 1811

      BERNARD CORNWELL

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      Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2006

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2000

      Map © Ken Lewis 2006

      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      EPub Edition © September 2011 ISBN: 978 0 00 733866 5

      This novel is a work of fiction.

      The incidents and some of the characters portrayed in it, while based on real historical events and figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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      Version: 2017-05-06

      Sharpe’s Fury is for Eric Sykes

      ‘The best thing to happen to military heroes since Hornblower’

       Daily Express

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Map

       Part One: The River

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Part Two: The City

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Part Three: The Battle

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Historical Note

       Sharpe’s Story

       About the Author

       The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)

       The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       About the Publisher

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PART ONE

      CHAPTER ONE

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      You were never far from the sea in Cadiz. The smell of it was always there, almost as powerful as the stink of sewage. On the city’s southern side, when the wind was high and from the south, the waves would shatter on the sea wall and spray would rattle on shuttered windows. After the battle of Trafalgar storms had battered the city for a week and the winds had carried the sea spray to the cathedral and torn down scaffolding about its unfinished dome. Waves had besieged Cadiz and pieces of broken ship had clattered on the stones, and then the corpses had come. But that had been almost six years ago and now Spain fought on the same side as Britain, though Cadiz was all that was left of Spain. The rest of the country was either ruled by France or had no government at all. Guerrilleros haunted the hills, poverty ruled the streets and Spain was sullen.

      February,

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