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SHARPE’S
TIGER
Richard Sharpe and the Siege of
Seringapatam, 1799
BERNARD CORNWELL
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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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1997
Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 1997
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Source ISBN: 9780006490357
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Sharpe’s Tiger is for Muir Sutherland and Malcolm Craddock, with many thanks
‘Cornwell’s combination of breakneck action and pigheaded man behaving badly – but with dazzling brio – is unbeatable. His historical setting is well observed, adding a degree of poignancy: an ancient civilisation destroyed by an army of brutalised illiterates, confused and far from home, but dogged and unquestionably brave’
Daily Telegraph
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CHAPTER ONE
It was funny, Richard Sharpe thought, that there were no vultures in England. None that he had seen, anyway. Ugly things they were. Rats with wings.
He thought about vultures a lot, and he had a lot of time to think because he was a soldier, a private, and so the army insisted on doing a lot of his thinking for him. The army decided when he woke up, when he slept, when he ate, when he marched, and when he was to sit about doing nothing and that was what he did most of the time
