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Apr 26, 2024 · Sharpe: I have a message from General Wellington. [Pot-au-Feu and the deserters laugh, as Pot-au-Feu lifts a ladle of stew to his mouth. Sharpe raises his rifle and shoots it out of his hand.] Sharpe: General Wellington promises that he will hang every man who does not present himself at our outpost by New Year's Day.
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In the Sharpe's television series, Wellington was played by two different actors. Initially the role was played by David Troughton (Sharpe's Rifles, Sharpe's Eagle). After series 1, Hugh Frasertook over the role when Troughton swore he'd never go on location in Ukraine again.
Arthur Wellesley, the third surviving son of the Earl of Mornington (1735–1781), and his wife, Anne (1742–1831), was born in Dublin on 1 May 1769. In March 1787 a commission was obtained for Wellesley as ensign in the 73rd foot, a Highland regiment then in India. Family connections enabled him to be appointed as aide-de-camp to George Nugent-Temple...
Wikipedia:Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - the Wikipedia entry for the real Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Sir Henry Simmerson first appears in Sharpe's Eagle as commander of the South Essex Militia, raised with his own money. He was described as a cousin of General Banastre Tarleton, Wellington's political enemy and the power behind Simmerson. He was described as a red faced man with pendulous jowls, small bloodshot eyes, and protruding ears. Sharpe thought he looked like a pig on horseback. He ...
Sir Arthur Wellesley, soon to be Lord Wellington, the new British Commander, has crossed into Spain. Now, together with his Spanish allies, he will do battle with the French at Talavera. Sharpe and his Chosen Men accompany Major Hogan and the South Essex Regiment to destroy a vital bridge. When the incompetence of the South Essex's commander ...
Lieutenant colonel Joseph Ford doesn't die in the book. In the film, Hagman is killed as a result of Orange's orders. In the novel, he dies in the main battle. In the novel, Rossendale is killed by a peasant woman looting the battlefield. In the film, he's bayonetted by French soldiers.
Sep 15, 2024 · Sharpe's Sword is a 1995 British television drama, part of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. It is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell, though it is set a year later than the book. Series: Sharpe. 5.
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The Comte's sister is willing to give up her virtue to Sharpe as payment for him giving her the quinine to save her mother's life. Being a newly married man, Sharpe takes the chivalrous option and politely declines, prompting the resentful girl to brand him as an "English monster". Big Bad: Major Pierre Ducos.
