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Richard Sharpe es el personaje central en la serie de novelas de ficción histórica del escritor Bernard Cornwell Las aventuras del fusilero Richard Sharpe. Estas sirvieron de base para una serie de televisión del canal británico ITV en las que el personaje fue interpretado por Sean Bean.
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Las aventuras del fusilero Richard Sharpe es una serie de...
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- Personality
- Childhood
- India
- Sharpe's Career
- Sharpe's Battle Wounds
- Sharpe's Telescope
- Sharpe's Women
- Later Life
- Television
- Trivia
Sharpe is an intelligent, driven, and fiercely ambitious man, rising through the ranks by courage, determination, and luck. He is most comfortable on the battlefield; and being a soldier is the life he excels at. His best friends and only real family are the soldiers he serves with. On the battlefield he is confident, highly skilled, instinctual, a...
Richard Sharpe was born in June or July of 1777 or 1778, to a prostitute residing in Cat Lane, London and an unknown father. Sharpe remembers only dark hair and a voice in the darkness of his mother. When Sharpe was about three, his mother was killed, leaving him an orphan. With no other known relatives to claim him, he was eventually deposited in ...
Sharpe sees his first action at the age of 16 in Flanders. He then serves in India and it was in India where his nemesis, Sergeant Obediah Hakeswill, had him flogged. In 1799, Sharpe is sentenced to 2,000 lashes for striking the sergeant, but is released after receiving 202. Using the flogging as a cover, he is assigned to accompany Lieutenant Will...
1793Joined the ranks of the King's 33rd Foot. Fought a brief engagement in Flanders the following year. 1795Sailed for India with the 33rd. Made Corporal of the 33rd but was broken back to private. Becomes bored and contemplates desertion. 1799Flogged for striking a superior. Accepted mission behind enemy lines. Met William Lawford and Hector McCan...
Sharpe participated in and survived two of the most significant battles of 19th century Europe, Trafalgar and Waterloo, with no more than a bruise. Such was not always the case. Sharpe's Tiger: 1. Sentenced to be flogged, he received 202 lashes to his back. 2. Took an Indian lance in his side. 3. Hand clawed by one of the Tipoo's tigers. Sharpe's T...
Throughout the novels, it was made clear that Sharpe had only one object he valued; a telescope. He was neither rich nor privileged, and could not afford such things as most of his fellow officers could buy, but the telescope had been a gift and was prized. In Sharpe's Fortress, it was revealed that Wellesley thought he had perhaps made an error in...
In 1799 while stationed in India, Sharpe asks for permission to marry Mary Bickerstaff, the 22 year old half caste widow of Sergeant Bickerstaff. She later leaves him (Sharpe's Tiger) for another man and he wishes her well. While serving in Seringapatam, he had an arrangement with a local prostitute. He later has brief affairs with Simone Joubert a...
He eventually retires to Normandy, France with his common-law wife, Lucille. They have two children; Patrick-Henri, who eventually becomes a French Cavalry officer, much to his father's chagrin, and Dominique, who ultimately marries an English aristocrat. The family lives comfortably on the contents of a sea chest full of plunder Sharpe acquired on...
In the television movies, Sharpe's upward trajectory began far later than in the novels - it wasn't until he rescued Wellington from a French patrol during the Peninsula Campaign in Sharpe's Riflesthat he was promoted from Sergeant to Lieutenant.
Sharpe likes to star watch. When he and Harper were slightly drunk, he admits that just as Harper likes birds, he likes the stars. (Sharpe's Company)While waiting through a shelling, he once admitted he had always wanted to learn to play the flute (Sharpe's Havoc), this was reiterated in Sharpe's Siege, and again after coming down from a battle...Sharpe is a series of historical fiction stories by Bernard Cornwell centred on the character of British soldier Richard Sharpe. The stories formed the basis for an ITV television series featuring Sean Bean in the title role.
Welcome to Sharpe's Wiki, an encyclopedia reference to the twenty-two novels and three short stories by Bernard Cornwell featuring the character of Richard Sharpe, as well as the television movies based upon them. We are currently working on 459 articles.
Sharpe is a British television drama series starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, with Irish actor Daragh O'Malley playing his second in command, Patrick Harper. Sharpe and Harper are the heroes of the Sharpe series of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the ...
Banker, Chair of the BBC. Richard Simon Sharp (born 8 February 1956) is a British former banker who became chairman of the BBC in February 2021. Following the findings of the Heppinstall inquiry into the appointment process, Sharp submitted his resignation to the BBC Board and to the Culture Secretary, which took effect at the end of ...
