Sharp's Adventures

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I was not expecting this book to have a few passages that were like, was any of this worth it? Sure. Like there's kind of stupid. I don't even know if Napoleon touched it. It barely looks like an Eagle. And then in an epilogue, Wellesley is like, yeah, we won that battle. But then the Spanish biffed it and like forced us to retreat all the way back to Portugal anyway.

Bring on the battalion of Dad Books! Cornwell started writing the Richard Sharpe novels because he wanted something like Horatio Hornblower on land. Well, we haven't read any Hornblower yet but we can attest that this book sure is about a British rifleman fighting in the army during the Napoleonic Wars!

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