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Sharpe

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Sharpe	comment	Sharpe is a series of historical fiction stories by Bernard Cornwell centered on the character of Richard Sharpe.Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Sir Arthur Wellesley (from three Frenchmen on TV; from at least half-a-dozen Maratha Indian warriors in the novels) and is rewarded with a Field Promotion, making him an officer in the British Army. As a gutter-born bastard, Sharpe doesn't play well with regular officers, the rich gentlemen who bought their commissions and resent an upstart from "the ranks" being among their number. But Sharpe's field experience, rough nature and damn good fighting skills give him an advantage when it comes to commanding soldiers. He leads from the front with a Baker rifle and massive Heavy Cavalry sword and never far from his side is longtime friend Sgt. Patrick Harper and a unit of elite riflemen. When not fighting some great bloody battle, Sharpe and his companions are often sent on missions vital to the war effort by Wellington himself or his intelligence officers. Despite being poor and lacking "gentlemanly conduct", Sharpe achieves further promotions on his merit alone, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by the Battle of Waterloo.In publication since 1981, the series of novels chronicle Sharpe's adventures in India, Portugal, Spain and beyond, from the beginning of his career to the very end. Though a fictional character, he's portrayed as being in the thick of real battles that occurred during the Napoleonic Wars, from the Siege of Seringapatam to the Battle of Waterloo; the novels are as much about the Duke of Wellington's campaigns shown from a new perspective as he fights the armies of NapolÃ©on Bonaparte. Cornwell has been writing and publishing the novels out of chronological order: Sharpe's Eagle, published in 1981, is 8th in the series; Sharpe's Devil, chronologically the last in the series, was published in 1992, and Sharpe's Assassin, the most recent novel published, is 21st in the series.The novels have been adapted into a series of television movies starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, alongside Daragh O'Malley as Patrick Harper and a slew of British talent in supporting roles (see Trivia), running regularly between 1993 and 1997, and with two additional miniseries in 2006 and 2008. The series was well-received and proved a breakout role for Bean, who went on to star in GoldenEye, The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. Much of the plot and backstory from the novels was compressed, modified or jettisoned, and several new stories were invented for the screen.How badass is Sharpe? Well, put it this way: he survived being played by Sean Bean!
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Sharpe / int_10a51060	type	Dress-Coded for Your Convenience
Sharpe / int_10a51060	comment	Dress-Coded for Your Convenience: And Truth in Television to boot. Sharpe and the Riflemen wear dark green, the rest of the British army wears red, the French wear blue and the Spanish wear a variety of browns.
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Sharpe / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Sharpe / int_1235f055	comment	Sir Henry Simmerson thinks he can use his wealth (he privately raised a regiment) to wage a successful campaign in Spain and gather fame and power in Parliament. Unfortunately, he doesn't know the first thing about war and is a very Dirty Coward. Also has elements of the Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
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Sharpe / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
Sharpe / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: Daniel Hagman, a cheerful Northerner who is easily the best shot in the regiment.
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Sharpe / int_1274565b	type	Up Through the Ranks
Sharpe / int_1274565b	comment	Up Through the Ranks: Sharpe was a sergeant until he saved Wellington's life, and was rewarded with a field commission. Richard Sharpe is a commoner and is a lot more coarse than the otherwise mostly aristocratic officer corps, but he makes up for it with sheer skill.
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Sharpe / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
Sharpe / int_133f1c12	comment	The Spymaster: Major Hogan. While in the guise of an engineer he frequently engages in cloak and dagger actions. He gathers intelligence while surveying roads and bridges both the enemy and Wellington may use and often advises Wellington based on this info. Lord Pumphrey. Officially works for the Foreign Office, in the fine tradition of spies pretending to be/working as diplomats. Gathers intelligence, serves the interests of His Majesty's Government, is perfectly charming and has no discernible morals whatsoever. "El Mirador", in Sharpe's Sword. Not just a spy master but also a network of contacts and informants including ones placed at various levels in the French Empire.
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Sharpe / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
Sharpe / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: Sharpe to Lieutenant-Colonel Girdwood, with this being explicitly noted by Hogan - Sharpe's de facto commander of the South Essex and has Girdwood (who's suffering from Sanity Slippage) entirely under his thumb. Technically speaking, Sharpe to Lawford, when the latter commands the South Essex, though in contrast to the example above, this is a partnership - Lawford is a good soldier, but he's primarily focused on using his military career as a boost for his political career, which is where he thrives. At the same time, he recognises Sharpe's brilliance and trusts him completely, meaning that he takes Sharpe's advice and on the battlefield, generally lets him do exactly as he pleases.
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Sharpe / int_145490c6	type	Still Wearing the Old Colors
Sharpe / int_145490c6	comment	Still Wearing the Old Colors: In Sharpe's Waterloo, Sharpe wears his usual uniform despite being repeatedly ordered to change into a newer one.
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Sharpe / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
Sharpe / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: Much like Fresh Meat below, the series has its fair share. Some accept their lack of experience and defer to Sharpe and other more experienced officers, others are dyed in the wool Upper Class Twits usually with a healthy dose of snobbery. Their survival rate, or lack of it, ultimately becomes a Running Gag.
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Sharpe / int_165308f6	type	The Commandments
Sharpe / int_165308f6	comment	The Commandments: The British Army's regulations are as thick as the Bible and a division's general will often issue standing orders in an attempt to regulate every aspect of the soldiers' lives note Robert "Black Bob" Craufurd in particular was notorious for this, but Sharpe has only three rules that his men must abide by: 1) Fight well, fight to win; 2) Don't get drunk without permission; and 3) Steal only from the enemy, or when starving.
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Sharpe / int_17942015	type	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
Sharpe / int_17942015	comment	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: For Sharpe it is remember When You Captured That Eagle At Talavera? Sharpe's achievements are acknowledged in-canon. The best example is Sharpe's capture of an Imperial Eagle at the Battle of Talavera (Sharpe's Eagle), which made him famous throughout the army and back in England for its sheer difficulty and peril. At least once in all the following novels, a character will say something along the lines of "Hey, you're Sharpe, the guy who captured the Eagle at Talavera!"
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Sharpe / int_18baa751	type	Historical Villain Downgrade
Sharpe / int_18baa751	comment	Historical Villain Downgrade: The author's note for Sharpe's Enemy notes that he'd written Pot-au-Feu as more of an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain than the ruthless criminal he probably was — presumably to differentiate him from Hakeswill, with whom he teams up.
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Sharpe / int_18cc27ca	type	Accent Slip-Up
Sharpe / int_18cc27ca	comment	Accent Slip-Up: The very anti-Irish Sergeant Lynch is of Irish extraction himself; he tries to conceal his accent but it shows at moments of stress.
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Sharpe / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Sharpe / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Most of the books have a final sentence that concludes with the title words. An Aversion is Sharpe's Waterloo, which concludes "and the world was at peace".
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Sharpe / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Sharpe / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Subverted. Sharpe wears trousers and overalls taken from a French cavalry officer, not as a ruse or as a trophy, but because they fit him so well they could have been tailored and are much more comfortable than the British-issued equivalent. This doesn't cause any problems until Waterloo, when General Dornberg listens to a KGL scout's description of the officer who gave him the message that the French are advancing through Charleroi, concludes he must have been French, and discards the message as a fake. Likewise, the veterans of Wellington's Peninsular Army carry looted French knapsacks, which are much better designed and more comfortable than the British version. Played Straight in Sharpe's Escape, when Sharpe, Harper, and Jorge Vicente "borrow" French infantrymen's uniforms to pass through Coimbra while Massena's army is sacking it.
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Sharpe / int_1a3b588c	type	Suicide Is Shameful
Sharpe / int_1a3b588c	comment	Suicide Is Shameful: When Cochrane takes Valdivia in Sharpe's Devil, its military governor kills himself rather than fighting to the end, which Cochrane dismisses as a "cowardly way out".
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Sharpe / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Sharpe / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Part of why Sharpe is so attractive to women - he's rough, but he's a genuinely decent man.
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Sharpe / int_1c5c049d	type	Picaresque
Sharpe / int_1c5c049d	comment	Picaresque: Cornwell describes the series as this in the afterword of Sharpe's Eagle.
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Sharpe / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
Sharpe / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Played with in Sharpe's Siege; when Ducos hears that Sharpe has been deployed, he decides that this is no mere raid, but the main British attack, because Wellington wouldn't waste Sharpe on a diversion. He's right that it isn't a diversion, but that doesn't mean Wellington's objective is what Ducos thinks it is.
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Sharpe / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Sharpe / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Sharpe and Harper. They become life long friends and the two are rarely separated after they become friends.
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Sharpe / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Sharpe / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Subverted with the Prince of Orange, who (at the insistence of his father, the King), is made a corps commander in Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army during the Waterloo Campaign. The young man thinks he's Alexander the Great reborn, and doesn't seem to realize that his commander and fellow general officers regard him as a useless fixture. It isn't that he does nothing, so much as what he does, he does very, very badly. Played Straight in Sharpe's Tiger by the Tippoo Sultan, who insists on standing on the parapet of his fortress with his soldiers during the British assault, firing alongside them at the attacking redcoats. Despite being instantly recognizable because of his rich clothes and jeweled decorations (not to mention being easy to hit as he is on the heavy side compared to his soldiers), he never ducks or steps back from the firing line.
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Sharpe / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sharpe / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: McCandless plays this on Sharpe's behalf, after tampering with a warrant.
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Sharpe / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
Sharpe / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: Poor Harper has a horrible toothache in Sharpe's Siege.
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Sharpe / int_21f19cfa	type	Fake American
Sharpe / int_21f19cfa	comment	Fake American: In-universe example, as Sharpe always pretends to be American to avoid anti-British prejudice when encountered alone by potential enemies, a habit he started in Copenhagen. At this point in history American and British accents were similar enough for this to be plausible thanks to the American Revolution having been fairly recent history - also, the habit of Royal Navy deserters of defecting to the States.
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Sharpe / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Sharpe / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The Running Gag of Sharpe's new Ensigns constantly dying. Also, Sharpe's habit of murdering evil and/or dangerously incompetent senior officers becomes this, especially when in Sharpe's Waterloo, Lieutenant Doggett relays to Sharpe the fact that the Prince of Orange has got his men killed for a third time through incompetence (for which Doggett called him "a silk stocking full of shit"). Sharpe says he'll deal with Orange, with Doggett assuming he means he'll talk to the Prince. Cue Sharpe returning a few scenes later and apologising that the Prince wouldn't see reason... and unfortunately, he [Sharpe] had only managed to shoot him in the shoulder as opposed to somewhere lethal.
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Sharpe / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
Sharpe / int_225d4412	comment	Played Straight in Sharpe's Tiger by the Tippoo Sultan, who insists on standing on the parapet of his fortress with his soldiers during the British assault, firing alongside them at the attacking redcoats. Despite being instantly recognizable because of his rich clothes and jeweled decorations (not to mention being easy to hit as he is on the heavy side compared to his soldiers), he never ducks or steps back from the firing line.
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Sharpe / int_23015b1f	type	Magnificent Bastard
Sharpe / int_23015b1f	comment	Cpt. John Lavisser so desperately wants to be a Magnificent Bastard invoked, even lampshading this in a speech. He really isn't, his only significant achievements being torturing a defenceless old man and threatening his daughter with same. This gets him nastily killed.
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Sharpe / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Sharpe / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: British officerships are generally bought and sold rather than earned by merit. Sharpe loses his promotion to Captain that he earned in Sharpe's Eagle two years later after he reminds a clerk in Horse Guards that he hasn't formally rejected it yet (Sharpe had gone to the office to see what the hold up was). He later muses that Napoleon would barely make it above captain in the British army but is now the Emperor of half of Europe. Wellington, later in the book, complains that he can't even promote someone to corporal and have it stick upon learning about Sharpe's issue.
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Sharpe / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Sharpe / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In Sharpe's Triumph, McCandless throws Hakeswill's "It says so in the scriptures" catchphrasenote Which McCandless, as an extremely religiously man, hates, and he always snaps at Hakeswill when he hears it back at him, and unlike with Hakeswill, what he says is actually in the scripturesnote "I say to a man, go, and he goeth", from Matthew 8:9 KJV. Sort of. See Genius Bonus.
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Sharpe / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
Sharpe / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Sir Augustus Farthingdale has written an instruction manual on how to be a good soldier. None of the soldiers with actual experience of war, whether on the English or French side, think it's worth the paper it's printed on, and Ducos accuses him of plagiarising most of it anyway.
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Sharpe / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Sharpe / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Sharpe and Lawford, not from fighting but from a common captivity, during which Lawford taught Sharpe to read and write. Sharpe and Patrick Harper, especially after Sharpe wins the respect of Harper and the men.
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Sharpe / int_24e5adb9	type	Beast and Beauty
Sharpe / int_24e5adb9	comment	Beast and Beauty: Invoked by one snobby officer about Sharpe and Jane Gibbons, leading to a duel.
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Sharpe / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
Sharpe / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: To Gudin, after they are found out, in Tiger.
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Sharpe / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Sharpe / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In Sharpe's Tiger, Col. Gudin points out "the Moonstone", the enormous diamond adorning the Tippoo Sultan's clothing, said to be magical. At the end of the novel, when Sharpe kills the Tippoo and loots his corpse, he can't find the Moonstone anywhere, but shrugs it off. This avoids a "discontinuity" with Wilkie Collins's 1868 novel The Moonstone, which says the jewel of that name disappeared during the Siege of Seringapatam and was not seen again before the events of the novel.
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Sharpe / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Sharpe / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Molly Spindacre from Sharpe's Revenge and also Jane Gibbons herself once she realizes Sharpe isn't going to let her go on her way with all his money.
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Sharpe / int_280f59bf	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Sharpe / int_280f59bf	comment	Extremely Short Time Span: The time covered for each novel varies, but the shortest are only a few days. For example, the principle events of Sharpe's Enemy cover December 24th through 27th, 1812.
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Sharpe / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Sharpe / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Obadiah Hakeswill who is described as having little or no hair on top of his head which only adds to his sinister appearance. He is described as ugly and vile in appearance, something in which his baldness plays a part.
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Sharpe / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Sharpe / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Harper proves himself one in Sharpe's Gold. He waits while Sharpe digs up a grave where they suspected the gold to be buried to see what El Catolico does when he comes to investigate the noise Sharpe makes. El Catolico pokes a pile of manure with his sword, so Harper knows where the gold really is buried.
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Sharpe / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Sharpe / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Due to the series being written out of order, some characters must inevitably survive stories taking place before but written after their other appearances. The most obvious is Obediah Hakeswill, who keeps escaping Sharpe's predations in India so he can be alive in Spain a decade later.
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Sharpe / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
Sharpe / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: McCandless's opinion of his having tampered with a warrant.
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Sharpe / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
Sharpe / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Sir Thomas Cochrane and Lord Pumphrey have only one virtue, namely being not quite as evil as the people they are pointed at. Nominal Hero, natch.
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Sharpe / int_2f73a81a	type	Cigar-Fuse Lighting
Sharpe / int_2f73a81a	comment	Cigar-Fuse Lighting: Richard Sharpe borrows a cigar from another officer when he has no slow-match to light fuses with.
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Sharpe / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Sharpe / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: In Havoc, Col. Christopher discusses Napoleon's politics with a French general, including his ideas for a "Continental system", where the various European nations will cooperate as a single polity. The Frenchman sneers that Napoleon is a "Corsican upstart" whose ideas, if not exactly crackpot, deserve to be viewed with the greatest skepticism. Cut to two centuries later, however...
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Sharpe / int_3295cb16	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Sharpe / int_3295cb16	comment	Major Pierre Ducos does a decent job of picking up the baton, repeatedly attempting to not only have Sharpe killed but have him die a dishonourable death in revenge for a relatively minor insult. In the books, he shares Hakeswill's fate of being executed by his own side, although it's disappointingly glossed over as an Off-Page Moment of Awesome. Cornwell seems fond enough of the character to make him The Man Behind the Man in stories written after but set before his and Sharpe's first meeting.
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Sharpe / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Sharpe / int_32da548d	comment	The Duke of Wellington and his historic Arch-Enemy, NapolÃ©on Bonaparte.
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Sharpe / int_33aa30e3	type	The Man They Couldn't Hang
Sharpe / int_33aa30e3	comment	The Man They Couldn't Hang: Sergeant Hakeswill, who is convinced he can't die because he survived being hanged as a child, and indeed does manage to escape several apparently fatal events. These include being thrown into a cage full of tigers, placed under the foot of an elephant, and tossed into a snake pit. As it turns out, however, he's not Immune to Bullets, especially when they're administered by a firing squad - or at least, he appears to survive, then Sharpe administers the coup de grace with a rifle bullet from point blank range.
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Sharpe / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Sharpe / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Colonel Girdwood has Sergeant Lynch do this quite literally as an Establishing Character Moment in Sharpe's Regiment. One of the new recruits has brought his dog, Buttons, with him to training and Girdwood orders Lynch to kill it on sight. This is important in characterizing the two men — Girdwood as a Dirty Coward still afraid of dogs because of a childhood encounter, Lynch as a Boomerang Bigot lickspittle — who serve as the novel's main villains.
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Sharpe / int_34e2157	type	Deliberate Injury Gambit
Sharpe / int_34e2157	comment	Deliberate Injury Gambit: The villain in the novel Sharpe's Gold is a far more skilled swordsman with a superior blade, so to defeat him Sharpe lets himself be stabbed in the leg and then kills his opponent while the guy is trying to pull his blade out. Pretty much everyone who hears about this thinks that Sharpe was insane.
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Sharpe / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Sharpe / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Frederickson suggests marriage to Lucille shortly after meets her. Not long after she has accidentally shot Sharpe. Of course, she prefers the charms of Sharpe, just like almost every woman in the Sharpeverse who isn't paired off with someone else - this is lampshaded by an upset Frederickson, who complains, 'how many women do you want?!'. Then again, Frederickson, while a good man, is hardly a looker and described as something of a misogynist - he doesn't necessarily see women as beneath him, but he doesn't like them very much, probably as a defence mechanism against rejection. Sharpe, by contrast, is roguishly handsome, awkwardly charming, and Major Hogan at one point remarks that King Arthur would have loved Sharpe simply for his proclivity for hopping on a (metaphorical) white charger and galloping to the rescue.
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Sharpe / int_368c1306	type	The Men First
Sharpe / int_368c1306	comment	The Men First: Sharpe lives and breathes this trope. In Sharpe's Eagle, while the entire British Army is on lousy rations, a crooked quartermaster tries to pass off two barrels of substandard beef for Sharpe's company, offering to sweeten the deal with a plump chicken for Sharpe himself. Sharpe tells him no sale, and "chooses" the barrel of beef that the quartermaster had set aside for himself. In Sharpe's Triumph, he is shown to have learned this lesson from, of all people, the renegade British officer William Dodd, who may be a murderer and a traitor, but is still a much better leader and tactician than more than half of the officers on the "right" side.
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Sharpe / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Sharpe / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: In Sharpe's Honour, Sharpe is falsely accused of murdering a Spanish aristocrat. He's convicted and sentenced to hang for political reasons, but another convict is hanged in his place, leaving him free to clear his name.
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Sharpe / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Sharpe / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Harris. He is an excellent source of needed, as well as completely unsolicited, information, speaks French and Portuguese and the go-to guy for anything that requires two brain-cells to rub together. Isaiah Tongue, a former schoolteacher, serves as the team's smart guy before Harris makes his canon immigration.
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Sharpe / int_402b438d	type	Clothes Make the Legend
Sharpe / int_402b438d	comment	Clothes Make the Legend: Sharpe's green Rifleman jacket. All of Sharpe's friends know that if he dies, he's to be buried in it. In various novels the green rifle jacket marks one as a rifleman separate from the common infantry of the British Army. The French even give them a nickname ('grasshoppers') partly because of the jackets.
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Sharpe / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Sharpe / int_40c57041	comment	Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, the insane misanthrope and Manipulative Bastard who had Sharpe flogged while he was a private in India. He eventually kills Sharpe's wife in Sharpe's Enemy before being executed himself. Cornwell admitted that after Hakeswill's death he found it hard to supply Sharpe with an equally malevolent adversary. This is particularly glaring in Sharpe's Challenge, which is actually an adaptation of prequel books in which Hakeswill is the main villain, but was re-set after the Peninsular War for the TV series, so Sharpe is given a Hakeswill expy villain who isn't particularly convincing.
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Sharpe / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Sharpe / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: The St Giles rookery, a slum whose denizens include prostitutes, cutpurses and hired killers (very much Truth in Television).
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Sharpe / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Sharpe / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Wellesley's aforementioned chewing out of Henry Simmerson is the best example. Sharpe delivers a truly memorable example when he interrupts someone's Hannibal Lecture by kicking them down a well.
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Sharpe / int_43c5a4b7	type	Court-martialed
Sharpe / int_43c5a4b7	comment	Court-martialed: In Sharpe's Tiger, Sharpe is court-martialed after being goaded into striking the malevolent Sergeant Hakeswill. He's sentenced to two thousand lashes, effectively a painful death sentence, but the flogging is interrupted after 200. Sharpe faces another court-martial in Sharpe's Honour, when he's falsely accused of murdering a Spanish aristocrat. He's convicted and sentenced to hang for political reasons, but another convict is hanged in his place, leaving him free to clear his name.
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Sharpe / int_43e36f2f	type	Acrofatic
Sharpe / int_43e36f2f	comment	Acrofatic: In Sharpe's Honour, Sharpe is not worried at being challenged to a duel by La Marquesa's husband, since "he's old, he's fat, and I'll slaughter him." Sharpe's subordinate, Captain Peter D'Alembord, warns that the Marques is "not yet fifty", was trained at a fencing salle in Paris, and "the fastest swordsman I ever saw was fatter than a hogshead." Also the Tippoo Sultan in Sharpe's Tiger - even Sharpe calls him a "brave fat bastard."
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Sharpe / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Sharpe / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: In Sharpe's Regiment, Sharpe and Harper take on fake identities and enlist as recruits in order to find out what happened to the South Essex Regiment's 2nd Battalion, which doesn't seem to exist yet still draws pay and rations. It works as this trope because the recruiters, Sergeants and officers frequently bring up the great Major Richard Sharpe and his faithful lancer, Regimental Sergeant Major Patrick Harper, as examples of sheer balls-to-the-wall heroism and how far enlisted men can go in the South Essex. There's a scene where the recruiting Sergeant goes on at length about how he taught Sharpe and Harper everything they know and now they're BFFs, completely unaware that he's talking to Sharpe and Harper.
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Sharpe / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Sharpe / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Quite a few of the books will have an honourable French sergeant or something, but particular mention goes to the deeply-likeable General Calvet.
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Sharpe / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Sharpe / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Subverted for Perkins in that he was created for the show and introduced into the novels later, and he survives the book version of the episode where he dies. Played straight with Harry Price. Maybe. He's apparently killed in the adaptation of Sharpe's Company, but three years later a different actor plays "Harry Price" in the adaptation of Sharpe's Waterloo. It's unclear whether he's meant to be The Other Darrin or a violation of the One-Steve Limit. In the books, they're the same character and he also appears in most of the intervening novels. Also played straight with Major Dunnet. In the Sharpe's Rifles book, he's captured by the French in the raid. In the adaptation, he is cut down by Colonel De L'Eclin. Played straight with the Claytons. In the books, Clayton makes it all the way to Waterloo before being killed and his wife Sally is still alive after the battle. In the series, Clayton is shot dead at Badajoz while the Chosen Men charge the hole and his wife Sally is raped and murdered by Hakeswill. Lucille, of all people. In the books, she's the Final Girl and still alive in Sharpe's Devil circa 1820. Furthermore, it's revealed that she's still alive as of the Starbuck Chronicles, which are set in the 1860s. Yet the series revival has her die off screen only a year after Waterloo.
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Sharpe / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Sharpe / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Sharpe doesn't believe in fighting fair, so expect to see him use every dirty trick in the book in order to win. These include switching uniforms, ambushing enemy troops, frequent use of Groin Attacks, luring enemies into positions where they can be shot by the French. One specific example: While fighting a superior swordsman with a rapier, he allows his opponent to stab him in the thigh, lodging the rapier in place due to the wound's suction. His opponent is thus (in an extremely unorthodox fashion) disarmed.
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Sharpe / int_4b9fa3a	type	Taking the Veil
Sharpe / int_4b9fa3a	comment	Taking the Veil: La Marquesa in Sharpe's Honour. By no means voluntary on her part.
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Sharpe / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Sharpe / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Sharpe has a facial scar taken in one of his first swordfights which, pretty much every single book tells us, gives him a mocking, sardonic, look. Obadiah Hakeswill, on the other hand, has a scar round his neck which only adds to his freakish and sinister appearance. Firmly averted, on the other hand, by William Frederickson, whose facial injuries make him truly hideous but is one of Sharpe's staunchest allies; at least, until they find themselves competing for the same woman.
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Sharpe / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Sharpe / int_4f84cdef	comment	John Lavisser is transformed from a Smug Snake to a weeping coward after Sharpe frees his hostage, steals his list of British informants and kills his men. His begging does not help.
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Sharpe / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Sharpe / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Harper, who's absolutely enormous. Sharpe himself is big enough to intimidate most people, and qualifies as this in the books before he meets Harper.note Sharpe's Tiger mentions that he is big enough that he would normally have been made part of the Grenadier Company, which is made up of the tallest men in the regiment, but the officer in charge of the Light Company at the time insisted on having Sharpe in his company
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Sharpe / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Sharpe / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Lord Pumphrey is charming, witty, erudite, possibly in love with Sharpe and has no morals except government interests. His personality is so infectious that Sharpe, even after everything Pumps has done, can't bear to kill him (though Pumphrey was armed and too influential to just kill.) General Calvet, who's pretty much a French Sharpe (though minus Sharpe's proclivity for Crazy Enough to Work plans to get out of trouble), appearing in Sharpe's Siege and Sharpe's Revenge. He and Sharpe ultimately end up as Vitriolic Best Buds. Napoleon himself quickly awes and charms Sharpe when they meet in Sharpe's Devil - it helps that Sharpe is described as one of Napoleon's beloved 'mongrels', risen from the ranks, who Napoleon can (and does) wind around his little finger.
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Sharpe / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Sharpe / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Inverted, at least for older children. If a child officer shows up, you can bet he'll almost certainly die heartbreakingly right in front of Sharpe's eyes. Played straight in Sharpe's Peril, where the sole survivor of a massacred Indian village is a girl of about four, who ran away and becomes a sort of Morality Pet for one of the East India Company soldiers.
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Sharpe / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Sharpe / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: If the Catholic Church shows up, it will either be in the form of a high-ranking prelate, who will be a scumbag, or an honest local priest, who will be a lovely person. Notably, the Inquisitor, Father Hacha, is a foul individual, as is the Cardinal of Naples, who seems to have read about Rodrigo Borgia and tried to imitate him as far as possible, only with more child abuse. This is a common feature of Cornwell's writing, owing to a childhood as part of a fairly extreme Christian sect which left him with a hearty distaste for organised religion.
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Sharpe / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
Sharpe / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: Sharpe often talks about becoming a farmer after he is done with war and he ends up as an apple farmer in Normandy at the end, something he rather enjoys (though he complains that French taxes are 'bloody evil').
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Sharpe / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sharpe / int_55c79f7c	comment	Death Trap: Mostly inverted, especially during the India trilogy. Its usually Sharpe who keeps throwing the baddies, especially Hakeswill, into a villain's recently abandoned death traps and then leaving him to die. Of course, Hakeswill always survives. In Sharpe's Tiger, Sharpe throws Hakeswill into a pit of tigers. In Sharpe's Triumph, he leaves Hakeswill under the foot of an elephant trained for executions. In Sharpe's Fortress, Sharpe knocks Hakeswill into a pit of snakes. In Sharpe's Enemy, he leaves him to get shot by a firing squad, and that finally sticks.
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Sharpe / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Sharpe / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Through out the novels Cornwell adjusts the actual events to fit his stories putting whatever units and/or Sharpe himself at key points of historical battles (Most notably, Sharpe fought at both Trafalgar and Waterloo, a feat accomplished by exactly zero British officers). He typically explains in the afterword the extent and nature of his artistic license in regard to the historical events. In his notes for Company, he lampshades this by saying that it's the fate of every fictional soldier to always be were the fighting is thickest, history be damned. Sharpe's Tiger: During the real Siege of Seringapatam, there was a large explosion in one of the walls that is believed to have been caused by a British cannonball detonating a magazine. It had little effect on the actual siege, but Cornwell writes it as a deliberate booby-trap set for the British troops that Sharpe prematurely detonates. Sharpe's Triumph: Wellesley was indeed unhorsed and surrounded during the Battle of Assaye, though it obviously wasn't Sharpe who saved him and it remains unknown how he actually survived. Sharpe's Fortress: Sharpe discovers a way up the ravine into Gawilghur that allows Wellesly's sepoy Indians to take the fortress. In real life, this was done by the Light Company of the 94th 'Scotch' Brigade. Sharpe's Trafalgar: The Pucelle and Revenant are fictional ships, though the Pucelle's actions mirror those of HMS Temeraire, which fought at Trafalgar. Cornwell also humorously notes that perhaps the only known man to have been at both Trafalgar and Waterloo was a Spanish noble named Don Miguel Ricardo Maria Juan de la Mata Domingo Vincente Ferre Alava de Esquivel, "mercifully known as Miguel de Alava." Sharpe's Prey: The espionage efforts surrounding the Second Battle of Copenhagen are fictionalized. It's also not known exactly why the Royal Danish Navy didn't burn their docked ships to prevent capture from the British, so Cornwell creates circumstances. Sharpe's Rifles: The entire story is fictional, though it is set in the backdrop of the French occupation of Galicia and the guerrilla warfare that was fought. Sharpe's Eagle: Sharpe was obviously not the first British soldier to capture a French eagle, this was done by Sergeant Patrick Masterson of the 8th Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Barrosa (which Cornwell later depicted in Sharpe's Fury). Sharpe's Gold: It's unknown what exactly caused the explosion that destroyed Almeida, so the deed is naturally done by Sharpe. Sharpe's Escape: The climax is loosely based on a small skirmish that was fought outside the Lines of Torres Vedras. Sharpe's Fury: The entire subplot involving Spanish efforts to dishonor Henry Wellesly is fictional. Sharpe's Battle: There was no Irish company that was part of the Spanish royal guard. Sharpe's Company: The breaching of the walls of Badajoz was primarily carried out by the Fifth Division, not the Light Division Sharpe is part of, though they claimed that some of their dead were found in the aftermath.
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Sharpe / int_590e1c70	type	Frontline General
Sharpe / int_590e1c70	comment	Frontline General: In Sharpe's Tiger, Major-General Baird has a personal grudge with the Tipu Sultan after having been imprisoned in Seringapatam for nearly four years. He decides to lead from the front so he can kill some of its defenders with his own hands. His claymore is so effective that the narration highlights that his right arm is even redder than the rest of his coat.
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Sharpe / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Sharpe / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Sharpe's Enemy has Sharpe sent to rescue a noblewoman from a horde of deserters, lead by Hakeswill, who are holding her hostage. It turns out they've also captured the wife of Colonel Dubreton, a Frenchman, so he and Sharpe have to work together. Dubreton ends up being a Friendly Enemy. Ducos, who first appears in this book, does not.
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Sharpe / int_5a371c8f	type	Opportunistic Bastard
Sharpe / int_5a371c8f	comment	Opportunistic Bastard: Obadiah Hakeswill, Richard Shape's Arch-Enemy, is a toadying sadist of a British drill sergeant with his only goals being his own profit and enjoyment. Hakeswill relishes bullying the men in his command, but throughout the India Trilogy, he is quick to desert the British whenever he thinks he has a better shot with the local rulers. He deserts and betrays the British no less than three separate times there and murders the colonel who could have exposed him. In the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, Hakeswill returns and continues attempting to weasel his way up in rank before he takes a chance to desert the British and captains a group of Bandits where he opts to Rape, Pillage, and Burn for for fun with no greater goal in mind.
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Sharpe / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
Sharpe / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: Sharpe is described by Cornwell himself as being a loose cannon, and his proud, vengeful nature often gets him in trouble with his superiors and the upper-classes. Fortunately, there's usually a big battle around where he can redeem his honour or settle a score.
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Sharpe / int_5c59001e	type	Suave Sabre
Sharpe / int_5c59001e	comment	Suave Sabre: Most officers wear a slender saber as a sign of rank. The titular hero is an officer and entitled to a sword, but he also came up through the ranks, and is not a gentleman, therefore his rough and ready nature favours a heavier blade. His weapon is the straight-bladed sabre of the heavy cavalry, which most men would struggle to use dismounted.
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Sharpe / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Sharpe / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Frederickson has one. He takes it off when going into battle, though. Along with his false teeth and his horsehair wig.
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Sharpe / int_5d1eca88	type	Awesome McCoolname
Sharpe / int_5d1eca88	comment	Awesome McCoolname: In "Sharpe's Devil", Lord Cochrane complains that the Spanish don't know how to name their warships. "Warships ought to have names like Victory, Arse-kicker, or Revenge.
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Sharpe / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Sharpe / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: McCandless charges Pohlmann with this after his horses are stolen. The mere fact that they are enemies doesn't prevent Pohlmann from regarding this as just.
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Sharpe / int_6073e7b7	type	The Musketeer
Sharpe / int_6073e7b7	comment	The Musketeer: Sharpe carries a Baker rifle (i.e. an extremely accurate long gun by the standards of the time) and a 1796 pattern Cavalry sword, a reminder of both his origin and his newfound status. And he is good with both, though a lot better with the gun.
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Sharpe / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Sharpe / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: A lot of the French villains and Spanish partisans, e.g. Brigadier Loup ("The Wolf"), La Aguja ("The Needle"), El Castrador ("The Castrator").
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Sharpe / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Sharpe / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Even the Duke of Wellington is occasionally annoyed by Sharpe's antics, but he's much too smart and competent (in a military that is portrayed as desperately short on people with either quality, let alone both) to not keep around.
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Sharpe / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Sharpe / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Several of the officers and commanders take this attitude in the books. Sharpe however makes it his mission to convince the troops that they are more than that. Sharpe will often get angry at pointless loss of life or loss of troops. Often this brings him into some kind of conflict with said leaders.
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Sharpe / int_643060dc	type	Fleeting Passionate Hobbies
Sharpe / int_643060dc	comment	Fleeting Passionate Hobbies: Ducos goes through a series of short-lived hobbies while hiding out in Italy with his ill-gotten gains - mainly to distract himself from the fear that Sharpe is out there looking for him.
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Sharpe / int_64dd304c	type	Pre-emptive Declaration
Sharpe / int_64dd304c	comment	Pre-emptive Declaration: In Sharpe's Siege, Captain Killick insists he's a privateer, not a pirate, and produces Letters of Marque to prove it. Bampfylde merely replies "I see no Letters of Marque" and throws them on the fire.
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Sharpe / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Sharpe / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Sharpe's Peril. Sharpe and a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits are hunted across India after learning that a rogue cavalry squadron is running a secret drug trade using opium stolen from the East India Company.
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Sharpe / int_673c9dd8	type	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
Sharpe / int_673c9dd8	comment	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: Sharpe does it to a mutineer in Sharpe's Gold.
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Sharpe / int_6a2d1b1a	type	Rebel Leader
Sharpe / int_6a2d1b1a	comment	Rebel Leader: Teresa Moreno a.k.a. 'La Aguja' (The Needle, a name Sharpe gave her). She leads a band of Guerilla fighters against the French. Marechal Pot-au-Feu (Marshall Stock-Pot): Leads the army of multi-nation deserters. El Castrador: Another Guerilla leader that Sharpe has some dealings with.
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Sharpe / int_6a61050e	type	The Only One
Sharpe / int_6a61050e	comment	The Only One: No matter how large the armies or how complicated the situations, it inevitably falls to Sharpe, his Riflemen, and/or the South Essex Light Company to save the day and defeat the bad guys - or at least, do what needs to be done to let the rest of the army win the battle.
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Sharpe / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Sharpe / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: This is noted as being common for the soldiers who have suffered a hard siege in taking a fortress to turn and vent their frustration on those who remain inside. The most notable in the books and Truth in Television is the Siege of Badajoz in Spain. When the close-quarters fighting starts, with swords and bayonets and improvised weapons, everyone gets this, from the gentleman officers to the lowliest privates.
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Sharpe / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Sharpe / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Excluding the epilogue, Sharpe's Enemy takes place from December 24th to December 27th, 1812, with Christmas being a significant tactical point.
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Sharpe / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
Sharpe / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: Lawford has to admit the truth when asked on his word of honour.
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Sharpe / int_6fbe3154	type	Shot in the Ass
Sharpe / int_6fbe3154	comment	Shot in the Ass: How Sharpe ends a duel in Sharpe's Revenge (though according to Sharpe himself, he was aiming for a gut shot).
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Sharpe / int_7098892d	type	Weapon-Based Characterization
Sharpe / int_7098892d	comment	Weapon-Based Characterization: Sharpe uses a Baker Rifle and a 1796 heavy cavalry sabre for fighting in close quarters. He prefers, and is much more skilled with, the rifle. Not only is the pairing very effective in combat as the cavalry sword is able to power through lighter officer swords and the rifle has more range and accuracy than either a musket or a pistol, but they serve as a reminder of the character's humble beginnings and where he is now. Sgt. Harper, Sharpe's second-in-command, uses a Nock gun, a seven-barrelled musket developed in limited numbers by the Royal Navy; the gun has understandably immense firepower, especially at close range and with it, ridiculous recoil (in real life the British found the gun was Cool, but Inefficient as it was very heavy, very slow to reload and it would even often injure the operator by breaking or dislocating their shoulder; Harper never experiences this issue).
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Sharpe / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Sharpe / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Lord Pumphrey, to what by the standards of the time is an outrageous degree, and probably got away with it by Refuge in Audacity. Still, he's (often) on Sharpe's side. To be more accurate, he is on the side of His Majesty's Government. As long as Sharpe is too, then Sharpe is safe.
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Sharpe / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Sharpe / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: A small but persistent one. The Harper editions of the series use contempory paintings of the British military as their cover illustrations, with one face out of the painting featured on the spine and back cover to imply that this is Sharpe. The issue is that the figure thus distinguished is in most cases dressed in the standard British redcoat uniform, but riflemen like Sharpe have their own green uniform (and it's established very quickly in the series that Sharpe regards this as an important badge of distinction and will not wear the red coat unless he has absolutely no choice).
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Sharpe / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
Sharpe / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: Regulation equipment is a pistol and light cavalry saber for officers and a sword bayonet paired with either a musket or rifle for enlisted men. Both wear red uniforms and a shako hat. Many characters deviate from this loadout. Sharpe himself carries a heavy cavalry straight sword and a Baker Rifle. The sword in particular gets a lot of comments, since it's considered a BFS in-universe. He also wears a green jacket that identifies him as a rifleman, rather than a standard red coat. Patrick Harper acquired the seven barrel gun during Sharpe's Escape and hung onto it after. It's a period-appropriate BFG designed to dislodge sails (and sailors) from enemy ships, but was discontinued because the recoil was so strong that it kept injuring sailors who use it. This isn't a problem for Sergeant Harper who is six feet, four inches tall at a time when Sharpe—four inches shorter than Patrick—is already regarded as a large man. Most of the Scottish officers decline the light cavalry saber and opt for a traditional Scottish claymore instead. These make Sharpe's sword look like a knife in comparison; historically, a claymore is fifty-five inches long. The Scottish regiments are famous for replacing their shakos with caps made of black bearskin. They also add bagpipers to their army bands. In several battles, viewpoint characters can find the Scots by sound of their pipers. On the villainous side, Captain Loux dresses his men in gray uniforms instead of the usual French blue. Another villain, Colonel Laroux, has an exquisitely balanced, mastercrafted heavy straight sword. Sharpe declares his intention to kill Laroux and take his beautiful sword. He ultimately dumps it in the river instead, seeing it as a reminder of too many bad times.
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Sharpe / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Sharpe / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Displayed both by Sharpe and his enemies. Pierre Ducos in particular just has to humiliate and utterly destroy Sharpe in all of his schemes, which hamstrings them because Sharpe always gets past them. Sharpe in India keeps trying to kill Hakeswill in elaborate ways involving animals, which never work, and he never sticks around to see the outcome: The Tipoo Sultan's tigers don't eat Hakeswill because they've been fed. Hakeswill escapes being crushed by Dowlat Rao Scindia's elephant by jabbing it with a knife. It isn't explained how he escapes being killed by Manu Bapoo's snakes, but Sharpe should really have known by then. This is partly justified by the fact that the India books were written after the books about Sharpe's chronologically later adventures, meaning that Hakeswill had to survive India. In-Universe, it might be said that Sharpe does get wise to the fact that trying to murder Hakeswill in elaborate fashions doesn't work, and ends up blowing his head off from point blank range with his rifle.
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Sharpe / int_76ecc890	type	Brave Scot
Sharpe / int_76ecc890	comment	Brave Scot: Quite a few of these throughout the series, especially in the India campaign. Special mention goes to Baird and Campbell, both of whom go on a claymore rampage while assaulting enemy walls.
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Sharpe / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Sharpe / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Sharpe duels in a couple of books, mostly against other Britons rather than the enemy. Cornwell successfully averts what the modern reader might expect. Sharpe, having risen from the ranks and being contemptuous of aristocratic twits, does not dismiss duelling as a silly affectation. Instead, as part of his Honour Before Reason mentality, he takes it very seriously - more seriously most of the genuine aristocrats - despite Wellington having banned the practice.
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Sharpe / int_7c020e46	type	One-Scene Wonder
Sharpe / int_7c020e46	comment	An alcoholic Irish sergeant appears in Sharpe's Sword as a death room attendant. He gives sincere comfort to the dying men in his care, assuring them they fought like heroes and died well. The afterword explains that this character's name, general history, demeanor, and alcoholism are historically accurate, though the real man was in charge of the entire hospital, not just the death room.
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Sharpe / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Sharpe / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: William Dodd starts out as a deserter from the East India Company army, massacring British troops and joining up with Scindia. When it becomes clear that the Battle of Assaye cannot be won, he absconds with his boss' gold. He then joins up with the Rajah of Berar's army, only later to murder the Rajah's brother in hopes of taking sole command of the mighty fortress of Gawilghur, and from there carve out his own empire. Anthony Pohlman was a Sergeant with the British East India Company who deserted to the Marathas. After being defeated at Assaye, he deserts the Marathas. He turns up again in Sharpe's Trafalgar, this time posing as a German Baron. He takes Sharpe into his confidence to keep him from revealing Pohlman's true identity...then ultimately sides with Captain Cromwell and the French, turning the Calliope over to the French and absconding with her passengers' valuables. Obediah Hakeswill deserts the British army for a promise of promotion by William Dodd in Sharpe's Fortress. When he sees Dodd's imminent defeat, he manages to escape from Gawilghur and reintegrate without anyone being the wiser. He defects again in Sharpe's Enemy, this time joining a band of deserters formed from both sides of the conflict in Spain.
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Sharpe / int_7d260070	type	Corporal Punishment
Sharpe / int_7d260070	comment	Corporal Punishment: Flogging was common, Sharpe was on the receiving end of a particularly brutal one. In Sharpe's opinion, flogging only teaches a soldier one thing, "how to turn his back."
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Sharpe / int_7de3aec2	type	What Does She See in Him?
Sharpe / int_7de3aec2	comment	What Does She See in Him?: The sentiment many have in regards to Sharpe when some wealthy or privileged lady takes an interest in him.
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Sharpe / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Sharpe / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: So many examples that you might start to wonder whether there was anyone left for the French to kill. Gibbons and Berry are both killed by Harper and Sharpe respectively. Hakeswill has no trouble killing soldiers on his side if it is in pursuit of his own goals or to pay someone back for a perceived slight. Sergeant Lynch is forced to go into battle with a squad of Irish soldiers led by Harper. The last time he's shown, they've all started grinning at him and Harper later reports that he regrets to say that Lynch was killed in the confusion. And his remains were regrettably spread over a wide area.
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Sharpe / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Sharpe / int_8344209e	comment	Patrick Harper acquired the seven barrel gun during Sharpe's Escape and hung onto it after. It's a period-appropriate BFG designed to dislodge sails (and sailors) from enemy ships, but was discontinued because the recoil was so strong that it kept injuring sailors who use it. This isn't a problem for Sergeant Harper who is six feet, four inches tall at a time when Sharpe—four inches shorter than Patrick—is already regarded as a large man.
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Sharpe / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Sharpe / int_834420aa	comment	Sharpe himself carries a heavy cavalry straight sword and a Baker Rifle. The sword in particular gets a lot of comments, since it's considered a BFS in-universe. He also wears a green jacket that identifies him as a rifleman, rather than a standard red coat.
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Sharpe / int_83535879	type	Tall Poppy Syndrome
Sharpe / int_83535879	comment	Tall Poppy Syndrome: How dare this jumped-up sergeant go around leading troops. How dare he be good at it. Sharpe or even anyone of lesser status gaining fame, glory, riches, and increased status over their titled peers often gets this sort of reaction. Wellington himself is targeted to varying degrees by his rivals in the novels in similar fashion. Wellington is considered an upstart by many of the peerage and has to frequently contend with their backbiting and politicking to try and blunt his successes.
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Sharpe / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
Sharpe / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Mostly averted. While Sharpe goes through numerous girlfriends and a few wives, most of them leave him for reasons of their own. When Teresa and Lady Grace die, he spends half the next book feeling deeply depressed as a result. And then there's his reaction to Astrid's death, which is half-depressed, half-enraged.
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Sharpe / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Sharpe / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Averted with Captain Joel Chase, who reflects on his family during the Battle of Trafalgar, then survives the day.
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Sharpe / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Sharpe / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Sharpe and Teresa's baby daughter, Antonia, is taken by Teresa's family, and just disappears after that. Partly justified, since Sharpe seems to consider her better off being raised by her aunt and uncle than by him.
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Sharpe / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Sharpe / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: General Calvet delivers one to Sharpe:
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Sharpe / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Sharpe / int_86c192f4	comment	Sharpe keeps drilling into his soldiers, almost to the point of being a Badass Creed, that the key to soldiering is being able to "fire three rounds a minute and stand".
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Sharpe / int_871cff0c	type	Create Your Own Hero
Sharpe / int_871cff0c	comment	Create Your Own Hero: General Sir Thomas Graham in Sharpe's Fury. Graham was a civilian, and a sincere believer in the ideals of the French Revolution - liberty, equality, fraternity. But his wife died when they were traveling abroad and while he was escorting her body home through Bordeaux, some French soldiers ignored his pleas, broke open the coffin and disrespected her corpse, ostensibly searching for contraband. Graham returned home, raised a regiment of soldiers at his own expense and immediately joined the army. He confides to Sharpe that he still believes in liberty, equality and fraternity, but he hates the French as sincerely and passionately as it is possible to do so. In the novel's climax, he commands the small, outnumbered British force that thrashes Marshall Victor at Barossa in 1811. The victory was not only a humiliating defeat for the French (historically the first time the British captured an eagle standard from the French), it instantly silenced the voices in the Spanish parliament that were advocating breaking the British alliance and making peace with Napoleon.
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Sharpe / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Sharpe / int_875615dd	comment	This is noted as being common for the soldiers who have suffered a hard siege in taking a fortress to turn and vent their frustration on those who remain inside. The most notable in the books and Truth in Television is the Siege of Badajoz in Spain.
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Sharpe / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
Sharpe / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The Riflemen who follow Sharpe. They frequently outfight superior enemy numbers or prove pivotal in a variety of battles.
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Sharpe / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Sharpe / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Richard Sharpe is, by his own description, a thief, murder, criminal, and arsonist. But he will not abide a rapist, and is shown exacting particularly brutal revenge against them many times.
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Sharpe / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Sharpe / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The entire damn army. According to Wellington and Hogan, all the enlisted men in the British army are either gutter bastards, drunks, thieves, rapists or murderers and at least three of those describe Sharpe himself (since Sharpe's attitude to rapists is positively murderous and he's rarely seen drunk, save when he's phenomenally depressed, the rest is merely a matter of eliminationnote In his backstory, he murdered two men before joining the army, became a thief after running away from an apprenticeship as a chimneysweep (up until fleeing London after killing the first man, a gang leader), and his mother was a prostitute while no one knows who his father is, meaning that he is indeed illegitimate). Truth in Television, witness Wellington's famous quote "I don't know what effect they will have on the enemy, but by God they frighten me"note It should be noted that he may not have said this. It is believed it may have actually been taken from something he wrote to another officer talking about the generals under his command, rather than the soldiers. And even more appropriately, "Our army is the scum of the earth, the merest scum of the earth... but by God, what fine fellows have we made of them!"note While this is the well known version, it is not exactly what he said. He actually said "The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth â€” the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards." There is a second, longer version from notes written by him, but it is closer to what he actually said than what people usually quote The column of soldiers in Sharpe's Peril comprise of East India Company troops on maneouvres, an incredibly lazy unit of the King's soldiers transporting a prisoner under the command of a pre-pubsescant officer, an engineer and his mate, a pregnant woman, an Indian noble and a priest. The villains of Sharpe's Enemy are the evil version of this trope, a group of deserters from the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese armies who've organised into an army of their own.
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Sharpe / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Sharpe / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In Sharpe's Siege, Frederickson orders one of his riflemen to stop the French raising the alarm during a night-time raid. So he cuts their heads off.
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Sharpe / int_8c5afdf0	type	Gutted Like a Fish
Sharpe / int_8c5afdf0	comment	Gutted Like a Fish: Leroux in Sharpe's Sword uses this to escape from a military hospital at one point, cutting a corpse open and disguising himself with the resulting organs to make it look as if he died like this. Later, Harper finds the body that the organs were stolen from, and realises what's happened.
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Sharpe / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Sharpe / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Sergeant Lynch is forced to go into battle with a squad of Irish soldiers led by Harper. The last time he's shown, they've all started grinning at him and Harper later reports that he regrets to say that Lynch was killed in the confusion. And his remains were regrettably spread over a wide area.
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Sharpe / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Sharpe / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Sharpe's Sword introduces La Marquesa de Casares el Grande y Melida Sadaba. Ironically, she's actually French.
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Sharpe / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
Sharpe / int_8f9f71a8	comment	General Calvet, who's pretty much a French Sharpe (though minus Sharpe's proclivity for Crazy Enough to Work plans to get out of trouble), appearing in Sharpe's Siege and Sharpe's Revenge. He and Sharpe ultimately end up as Vitriolic Best Buds.
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Sharpe / int_90328f91	type	Unscrupulous Hero
Sharpe / int_90328f91	comment	Theresa Moreno is an Unscrupulous Hero, being a ruthless partisan whilst La Marquesa is a Nominal Hero.
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Sharpe / int_924d0f71	type	Cavalry Officer
Sharpe / int_924d0f71	comment	Cavalry Officer: Several characters in the books are noted as leading cavalry unit in both friend and foe alike.
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Sharpe / int_94b81c55	type	Spin-Offspring
Sharpe / int_94b81c55	comment	Spin-Offspring/Babies Ever After: Sharpe and Lucille's son, Patrick Lassan, is a minor character in The Starbuck Chronicles, another series by Cornwell set during the American Civil War. In that series, Patrick is a Chasseur Colonel of the French Imperial Guard and a French Military Observer attached to the Union Army. He carries and uses Sharpe's old sword, though his father was apparently disappointed that his son joined the French cavalry rather than the British infantry. By 1862, when the novel was set, Sharpe had died (unsurprising, considering that he'd be close to 90) and Lucille was still alive, though apparently very lonely. Patrick's younger sister Dominique is mentioned as the Countess of Benfleet and the mother of five children.
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Sharpe / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Sharpe / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Many. Marshal Massena goes through a very pronounced one after seeing the Lines of Torres Vedras, and realizing just how screwed his army is. John Lavisser is transformed from a Smug Snake to a weeping coward after Sharpe frees his hostage, steals his list of British informants and kills his men. His begging does not help. Pierre Ducos goes through a long one, Sharpe now inhabiting his very nightmares. Lord Fenner, when his former sex slave turns up with the evidence to ruin him, has a surprisingly brief one. Colonel Girdwood has his biggest one on his first taste of battle, where he's driven insane. He gets one whenever a dog approaches. And another whenever he is reminded of anything Irish. Simmerson has many but his most notable is after Wellington tells him off after he finds he caused the Kings Colours to be lost. Hakeswill's final raging denial: "You can't kill ME!"
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Sharpe / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Sharpe / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: With a few exceptions, most aristocrats encountered in the novels and TV series - whether British or otherwise - are vile types, enemies of Sharpe, and often also Upper Class Twits. A good example is the villain in Sharpe's Eagle, Henry Simmerson. One subversion is Sharpe's Odd Friendship with the aristocratic William Lawford, which he explains to Leroy in Sharpe's Eagle: Double-subverted in Sharpe's Regiment when Sharpe goes to Lawford for help after corruption within the army affects their old Regiment, and Lawford tries to cover the scandal up because "gentlemen look out for themselves" - however, he tries to look after Sharpe as well in the course of covering it up, as he tries to get Sharpe a colonelcy with the Royal American Rifles (which is portrayed as quite a promotion), which would both stop him being a problem to the corrupt Lord Fenner, and keep him safe from Fenner's vengeance. A standard Sharpe aristocrat would have tried to have him killed.
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Sharpe / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Sharpe / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: During a lull in the action at Waterloo, Peter D'Alembord surprises Sharpe by revealing that he is not in the Army just for the money, but is a true believer in the justice of the Allied cause. Sharpe says the French believe just as strongly in the justice of their cause, but D'Alembord delivers a tirade about what a "filthily evil nation" France is, first for slaughtering Huguenots (including his own ancestors), then for the bloodshed of the Revolution, and finally Napoleon's naked conquest of other nations dressed up as "civilisation building." Then, remembering that Sharpe lives on a farm in Normandy with a French lover, he hastens to add that the essential "evil" of France is in its government, not its people. Sharpe ruefully says that plenty of his French neighbors would agree:
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Sharpe / int_98770aab	type	Coup de GrÃ¢ce
Sharpe / int_98770aab	comment	Coup de GrÃ¢ce: Sharpe administers this to Hakeswill in the conclusion of Sharpe's Enemy. Ordinary military procedure is subverted in that it is administered with Sharpe's Baker rifle, rather than with a pistol.
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Sharpe / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Sharpe / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Sharpe was involved in crucial moments in so many key historical events that - within his own fictional setting - if he'd never existed Britain would have probably lost the Napoleonic Wars.
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Sharpe / int_9a99d3df	type	Stealth Mentor
Sharpe / int_9a99d3df	comment	Stealth Mentor: Col. Gudin in Tiger and Maj. Dodd in Triumph are both Sharpe's enemies, but both teach the young Pvt./Sgt. Sharpe the important lesson of putting The Men First: no matter how much authority the army might vest you with, your men won't follow you, or stick by you in a tough situation, if you don't show that you care about them. Dodd also plants the seed of the idea in Sharpe's mind (which he previously would have thought ridiculous) that being a sergeant is not the highest he could rise, if he manages the nearly-impossible task of earning an officer's commission.
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Sharpe / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Sharpe / int_9b54d536	comment	Major Ducos is responsible for French intelligence, Hogan's Evil Counterpart, and a notable opponent of Sharpe.
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Sharpe / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Sharpe / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: New officers serving under Sharpe tend to gain a lot of experience and become good officers or die, in very short order. Of particular note is Jorge Vincente, first encountered as a young Portuguese student-turned-soldier with no real military experience, cut off from his army alongside Sharpe. By the next book he appears in he's basically become a Portuguese Sharpe right down to carrying the same weapons as him to emulate what he believes makes Sharpe successful.
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Sharpe / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Sharpe / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Most of the officers. The Prince Regent, an example of Truth in Televsion.
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Sharpe / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Sharpe / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Sharpe and several supporting characters sustain substantial injuries that rarely slow them down. Keep in mind that this is during an age when medicine was unsophisticated and could be more dangerous than going without treatment. Handwaved to a degree by Harper's maggots, a folk cure against infected wounds. The maggots will eat the gangrenous flesh and leave the healing flesh alone. The very first published book opens on Sharpe using them to recover from a thigh wound. For example, Sharpe gets beaten so badly that one of his eyes is nearly swollen shut early in Sharpe's Escape...and it never comes up again.
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Sharpe / int_9d27a8be	type	Army of Thieves and Whores
Sharpe / int_9d27a8be	comment	Army of Thieves and Whores: The Duke of Wellington famously considered his forces this in real life and so he does in the Sharpe novels. This attitude is also held by the officer class in general and to varying degrees by the public back in England as well.
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Sharpe / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
Sharpe / int_9e062ca3	comment	Suicide Mission: The Forlorn Hope, derived from Dutch verloren hoep or "lost troop", who are the first men to charge through a breach opened in an enemy fortress' walls—nine times out of ten they naturally catch the brunt of the enemy defence and get killed, but if they survive, they get instant promotions. Sharpe ends up leading one in order to confirm his promotion to captain.
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Sharpe / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Sharpe / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Obadiah Hakeswill. Although it's more of an insane fixation. Sharpe, conversely, doesn't seem to care about who his mother was and she isn't even named until Sharpe's Assassin.
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Sharpe / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Sharpe / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: After Major Ducos gets a bloody nose (so to speak) from Sharpe early on in the series, every one of his "destabilise and destroy Wellington's army" schemes simply must involve the humiliation and total annihilation of Richard Sharpe. This is ultimately his downfall, though on several occasions he comes extremely close to succeeding. Sharpe and Hakeswill have this for each other. Sharpe would love nothing more then to be able to kill and/or humiliate Hakeswill and Hakeswill feels the same about Sharpe.
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Sharpe / int_a12e893f	type	The General's Daughter
Sharpe / int_a12e893f	comment	The General's Daughter: Sharpe ends up marrying Jane Gibbons, the niece of Henry Simmerson, one of the worst of the snobby aristocrats he has to deal with. While Simmerson doesn't have a great deal of power over impeding Sharpe's ascent through the ranks, he sure as hell isn't happy about the turn of events.
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Sharpe / int_a20d4674	type	Techno Babble
Sharpe / int_a20d4674	comment	Technobabble: In Sharpe's Siege, Colonel Elphinstone deliberately uses as much technical jargon as he can when describing the fort's defences, hoping to annoy Captain Bampfylde. It doesn't work; Bampfylde politely replies using equally technical terms, indicating that he understood perfectly.
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Sharpe / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Sharpe / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: In universe, this is Hakeswill's specialty. He uses the phrase "says so in the scriptures" as a sort of go-to argument to justify whatever he has to say or wants to do. Gloriously, the bible thumping Colonel McCandless calls him out on this in Sharpe's Triumph:
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Sharpe / int_a2cc787	type	Externally Validated Prophecy
Sharpe / int_a2cc787	comment	Externally Validated Prophecy: Sharpe, in Sharpe's Enemy, looking across a battlefield devastated by rocket artillery: "I suppose one day all battlefields will look like this."
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Sharpe / int_a30a7977	type	Highly-Conspicuous Uniform
Sharpe / int_a30a7977	comment	Highly-Conspicuous Uniform: The standard British infantries' red jacket or coat. Various Spanish units in the series are noted as being overly gaudy and pretty and tend to stand out sharply.
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Sharpe / int_a46ce039	type	Superstitious Sailors
Sharpe / int_a46ce039	comment	Superstitious Sailors: In Sharpe's Siege, Captain Killick takes full advantage of sailors' reputation for superstition; he invents a legend that hanging a sailor in still air is bad luck, and when he wants to make his ship look unsalvageable he has the figurehead removed because "No sailor would take away a figurehead if a ship still had life in her."
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Sharpe / int_a5a4c9a2	type	Majorly Awesome
Sharpe / int_a5a4c9a2	comment	Majorly Awesome: Sharpe himself, who climbs up to and beyond this rank. Being a work of military historical fiction he is not the only one present through out the series of novels.
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Sharpe / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
Sharpe / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Sharpe's 1796 Heavy Cavalry Sword. It's a real weapon, but so massive that they're only used by men on horseback. Only those as big and strong as Sharpe are capable of wielding it like an infantry sword.
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Sharpe / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Sharpe / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: When looting the palace of Tippoo Sultan, Sharpe pointedly refuses to take the Sultan's jewel-encrusted sword, instead placing it in the dead man's hand. He states that a "proper soldier", like himself and the Sultan, deserves to go to God with his weapons in his hand. After the Battle of Waterloo, most of the dead are buried in a mass grave. Sharpe insists on personally burying Dan Hagman, on high ground where he would have wanted to lie. Sharpe puts his own rifle in Hagman's grave, with Hagman's finger through the trigger-guard, and takes Hagman's rifle for himself. He claims it's just because Hagman's rifle is better.
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Sharpe / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Sharpe / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Usually for reasons of drama and of giving Sharpe a chance of survival, French infantry tactics are Flanderized to the point of being suicidal. Case in point their oft-used "column" attacks, which are presented in the series as a human battering ram that attempts to physically push its way through British lines and are usually shot to pieces; the French evidently forget that the big pointy spears they hold also shoot bullets. In Real Life, "column" was just the preferred French infantry formation when on the march. When in musket-range of the enemy, French troops would deploy in line like everyone else. At the end of each book, the author mentions the Real Life casualty figures of the book's big battle from both sides. These losses (except for prisoners) are nearly always about even between the French and the Allies. People reading the books (except for the siege books and Sharpe's Waterloo, which go into loving detail about the Allied casualties) could be forgiven for wondering where all the British casualties came from.
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Sharpe / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Sharpe / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Hakeswill, for about four and a half books of near-continuous evil until he's eventually executed in Sharpe's Enemy. To a lesser extent, Sharpe himself. He's a thief and a murderer, although his victims are all bad people. Sergeant Havercamp of Sharpe's Regiment also gets away with everything he did, as he's a Lovable Rogue and points out, accurately, that he's the best recruiting Sergeant that Sharpe's got. Lieutenant-Colonel Girdwood appears to be this, at first... then it becomes very obvious that Sharpe's keeping him around because he can control him.
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Sharpe / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Sharpe / int_a8559a9f	comment	Rifleman Benjamin Harris was named after a soldier in the Real Life 95th Rifles, who dictated (he was illiterate) a story of his memories from the Peninsular Campaign, and whose book served as an inspiration for the Sharpe series.
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Sharpe / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Sharpe / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Downplayed; the series is very technically this, as Sharpe gains fame and secures a powerful promotion by capturing a French Imperial Eagle at the Battle of Talavera in the appropriately-named Sharpe's Eagle; in reality, no such thing occurred at the battle. In practice, however, the books follow established history pretty closely, with a few other similar exceptions to place Sharpe in a dramatic position regarding real events.
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Sharpe / int_a863ef67	type	Cultured Warrior
Sharpe / int_a863ef67	comment	Cultured Warrior: Arguably, Sharpe himself. He goes from lowly rifleman to a great war hero fluent in French and Spanish and ends up able to quote Voltaire to boot. Of course, it helps to have a Spanish wife, then later a girlfriend/life-partner who can speak French. There is also Rifleman Harris, the only one crazy enough to lug around a small library in addition to his already sizeable kit, and reads Voltaire, William Wordsworth and dirty books by the Marquis de Sade. Captain, later Major, Peter D'Alembord. He is an elegant and erudite, with exquisitely tailored uniforms and perfect, languid, manners. Also a first-class swordsman and excellent commander of light troops. Lord Pumphrey, while not much of a warrior, is described as being a very cultured man and does do his own dirty work when required to.
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Sharpe / int_a91f77d9	type	Dirty Old Monk
Sharpe / int_a91f77d9	comment	Dirty Old Monk: Captain Ardiles notes in Sharpe's Devil that the best whorehouses in Chile are the ones the priests use.
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Sharpe / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Sharpe / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Gutter-brawler Richard Sharpe and aristocrat William Lawford. It began when they spent three months chained to the same cell wall in India, at which time Lawford taught Sharpe his letters. Sharpe repaid him by breaking him out and, to a degree, teaching him how to fight (or at least, how to be a soldier - though he's bookish, Lawford is noted as an excellent marksman). Though it doesn't last as long, Sharpe is also friends with Lawford's uncle McCandless, an old, well-educated, highly moral, extremely religious Scottish intelligence officer for the East India Company, who has a lot of faith in Sharpe and believes that, for all his flaws, he is a good man. Him being shot in the leg is a large part of why Sharpe doesn't join Pohlmann, as he legitimately cares about the man.
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Sharpe / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Sharpe / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Mentioned in passing by Sharpe, in reference to Tippoo Sultan.
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Sharpe / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
Sharpe / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Jorge Vicente is a lawyer by trade and a nature-loving philosopher and poet by inclination. Then he joins the Portuguese army, and swiftly proves himself to be courageous, intelligent, a natural leader, and highly capable in battle.
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Sharpe / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Sharpe / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Sharpe gives one to nervous regulars a few times, most notably in Sharpe's Eagle:
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Sharpe / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Sharpe / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: All partisans get a nickname, with Teresa being known as 'La Aguja' (the Needle - Sharpe gave her the name). Other notable heroic partisans include 'El Castrador' (exactly what it sounds like), and villainous ones include 'El Catolico' (Teresa's betrothed, so named for his habit of saying the Latin prayer for the dead as he kills his enemies) and 'El Matarife' (the Slaughterman).
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Sharpe / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Sharpe / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Sharpe's is beautiful women, which both Harper and Hogan lampshade. He's never quite sure how to act around them. Granted, the fact that he usually ends up in bed with them is a point in his favour, but Sharpe also has a habit of believing anything a beautiful woman tells him, and doing anything she asks him to boot. As Hogan at one point complains, King Arthur would have loved Sharpe, precisely because of his habit of leaping on a white charger and looking for ladies to rescue.
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Sharpe / int_abb15066	type	Corrupt Quartermaster
Sharpe / int_abb15066	comment	Corrupt Quartermaster: In Sharpe's Fortress, Sharpe's nemesis Sergeant Hakeswill wangles a supply sergeant's slot, and colludes with his captain to sell off prodigious amounts of goods. Sharpe himself averts this trope, remaining honest and highly competent during his own stints as a quartermaster (even if he doesn't like the job very much), with the worst that can be said about him is that he takes a Bothering by the Book/Exact Words approach to orders (again, because he doesn't like the job).
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Sharpe / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Sharpe / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each book is named "Sharpe's ______". Also, all the books have more historically descriptive subtitles, e.g. "Sharpe's Company" is subtitled "Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, 1812".
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Sharpe / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Sharpe / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: So many throughout the series. Usually from Sharpe's enemies, as their plans crumble into nothingness around them. Special mention to Andre Massena, who is rendered almost catatonic when he sees the Lines of Torres Vedras. Sgt. Lynch's when he realises that the Irish recruit he's been bullying for the past weeks is Sergeant-Major Harper, who is itching for payback. He gets another one when he realises that he's been sent on a mission to concealed part of the battlefield with Harper and several other Irishmen, who've also suffered under him, and they're all grinning at him...
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Sharpe / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Sharpe / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Lucille, of all people. In the books, she's the Final Girl and still alive in Sharpe's Devil circa 1820. Furthermore, it's revealed that she's still alive as of the Starbuck Chronicles, which are set in the 1860s. Yet the series revival has her die off screen only a year after Waterloo.
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Sharpe / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Sharpe / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Wellington's spymasters have a tendency to be this, as does Wellington himself. Even Sharpe has his moments.
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Sharpe / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
Sharpe / int_aec63727	comment	Harper and the Riflemen vary between Pragmatic Hero, Unscrupulous Hero and Nominal Hero, depending on the weather.
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Sharpe / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Sharpe / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Sharpe keeps drilling into his soldiers, almost to the point of being a Badass Creed, that the key to soldiering is being able to "fire three rounds a minute and stand". Sharpe considers every "Proper Officer" a "Bastard!" Harper's favourite exclamation: "God save Ireland!" Hakeswill's "It says so in the scriptures", his justification for anything. Expert marksman Daniel Hagman shouts "Got 'im!" when he hits his target, and recommends "brown paper and paraffin oil" for any injury.
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Sharpe / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
Sharpe / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Sharpe and Lawford, when they command the South Essex. Lawford is a well-educated social butterfly who sees his military service as a springboard for a future career in politics, and while he is an excellent administrator and schmoozer, as well as a good soldier in his own right, it's a means to an end. Sharpe, on the other hand, is a career soldier from a lower-class background, and has neither the connections nor social skills to be accepted in the circles Lawford moves in as a matter of course - though he's an adept manipulator and administrator when he wants to be. In the end, Lawford focuses on the necessary paperwork and political wrangling to make sure that the South Essex is fully manned and well-supplied, while Sharpe ensures that the men and supplies are put to best possible use.
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Sharpe / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
Sharpe / int_b35e77ee	comment	Played extremely straight in Sharpe's Challenge, when Sharpe and Harper are the Fake Defectors. Sharpe is ordered to kill Harper using a musket he just loaded, but at the last moment he realises that the powder is bad and the shot won't fire, so he goes along with it.
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Sharpe / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Sharpe / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In Sharpe's Eagle, Lieutenants Berry and Gibbons are named after the author's first wife's divorce attorneys.
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Sharpe / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Sharpe / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Many of the officers that Sharpe encounters or any number of foes who decide he is not any real danger to them.
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Sharpe / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Sharpe / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: Jorge Vicente believes that the French ideals of libertÃ©, Ã©galitÃ©, and fraternitÃ© have a lot to recommend them, and that the Portuguese government could do with some serious reform. But his love of his homeland outweighs his philosophical ideals, and so he fights for Portugual.
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Sharpe / int_b7475a74	type	Bothering by the Book
Sharpe / int_b7475a74	comment	Bothering by the Book: Sharpe when stuck as a Quartermaster, or when he wants to annoy someone. These two things usually coincide. Obadiah Hakeswill has perfected this to the point that he can use it as a murder weapon.
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Sharpe / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Sharpe / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane wants to free Napoleon from St. Helena and create a "United States of South America" from Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Why? He just really loves fighting. This is Truth in Television, as it happens: he complained about not being given a fleet in the Crimean War, at the age of 73, something Parliament had vetoed on the entirely reasonable grounds that he would probably do something completely crazy with it. On top of that, the Siege of Sebastopol would have been much shorter had he been in charge. Why? His plan involved saturation bombardment and poison gas.
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Sharpe / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Sharpe / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: Literally, and regularly. There are several instances where a fortress has to be taken. Sharpe will frequently find himself taking part in some hard or famous sieges. Like the Siege of Seringapatam in India or the Siege of Badajoz in Spain. Sieges of varying scale and intensity occur through out the books.
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Sharpe / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Sharpe / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Sharpe and General Calvet. Both men from humble origins who owe their positions and success to the men in charge of their respective armies, have reputations for ruthlessness, and who care deeply for their men. Lord Cochrane in Sharpe's Devil is also reminiscent of Sharpe when he was younger, carving out a reputation for being able to pull off the impossible, repeatedly doing insane things and getting away with them - and he was every bit as mad in Real Life as he's depicted as being in Sharpe's Devil, if not more so. They're even pretty much the same age, with only two years between them.
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Sharpe / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Sharpe / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The French Dragoons in Sharpe's Rifles freely go about brutalising and massacring the Spanish peasantry. Their commander is happy to let them do this. In fact, this seems to be the French Army's modus operandi during their campaigns in Spain and Portugal. The British do it as well at the Battle of Badajoz, which again was the standard procedure when an army captured a city. The stupid soldiers found women and drink, the clever ones found the nearest goldsmith and nicked the strongbox. The inhabitants barricaded themselves in rooms and stayed there until it died down.
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Sharpe / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Sharpe / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Captain Frederickson is a tough commander and fearsome fighter and marksman, with a horrifying appearance that he accentuates to scare the enemy. He is also well-versed in such diverse fields as law, architecture and poetry, speaks three languages fluently, and spends his spare time making pencil sketches of Spanish landscapes, discussing architecture with Frenchmen and politics with Americans. Sharpe himself is borderline illiterate and ignorant but he is certainly not stupid. He speaks fluent Spanish and, eventually, French, pulls off some surprisingly complex gambits throughout the series, although he prefers to simply walk into his enemies' traps and then hack his way out of them.
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Sharpe / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Sharpe / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: The novels (and TV adaptations) Sharpe's Honour and Sharpe's Revenge. In both cases, Sharpe is framed by Major Ducos as part of a plan to derail Wellington's campaigns.
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Sharpe / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Sharpe / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Sharpe's mother was a prostitute, which makes her son less than fond of pimps. Sharpe calling someone a pimp is not only an insult, its the worst insult he can think of. And if he encounters a pimp, that pimp will have a very limited life expectancy. Likewise, Obadiah Hakeswill goes crazy when you insult his mother or when someone like Sharpe thwarts his schemes.
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Sharpe / int_bcb2cfe1	type	Beam Me Up, Scotty!
Sharpe / int_bcb2cfe1	comment	And even more appropriately, "Our army is the scum of the earth, the merest scum of the earth... but by God, what fine fellows have we made of them!"note While this is the well known version, it is not exactly what he said. He actually said "The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth â€” the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards." There is a second, longer version from notes written by him, but it is closer to what he actually said than what people usually quote
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Sharpe / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Sharpe / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: If Sharpe had just told Teresa to kill Hakeswill when she had a knife at his throat, there wouldn't have been any problem. They spend that entire series knowing that he's trouble and reacting to all the underhanded things he does and they never just kill him. This is likely, aside from narrative purposes, to be because it is made clear that Hakeswill is an absolute master at brown-nosing the officer class and is thought of as a superb Sergeant by them for that very reason.
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Sharpe / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
Sharpe / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Lord John Rossendale, after being humiliated by Sharpe, feels it necessary to regain his manhood by fighting heroically at the Battle of Waterloo, joining the charge of the British Heavy Cavalry; when the undisciplined cavalry gets carried away and charges straight to the other side of the battlefield, they are annihilated by a retaliatory French attack. Lord John is crippled by a lance stabbed into the small of his back and blinded by a sword slash across his forehead; he lies in agony on the battlefield for the rest of the day, being stepped on by advancing and retreating French infantry who ignore his pleas to be put out of his misery; finally, after nightfall he has his throat cut by a Belgian peasant woman to keep him silent while she loots the corpses on the field. In the TV version, his end is quicker, but no less humiliating.
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Sharpe / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Sharpe / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: A variety of characters qualify as Anti-heroes. Sharpe comes in quite solidly at Unscrupulous Hero. Harper and the Riflemen vary between Pragmatic Hero, Unscrupulous Hero and Nominal Hero, depending on the weather. Wellington and Lord Nelson clock in at Disney Anti-Hero. General Calvet, being a counterpart to Sharpe, also centers around Unscrupulous Hero. He comes across as fairly benign, but he has a lot of off-screen baggage. Sir Thomas Cochrane and Lord Pumphrey have only one virtue, namely being not quite as evil as the people they are pointed at. Nominal Hero, natch. Theresa Moreno is an Unscrupulous Hero, being a ruthless partisan whilst La Marquesa is a Nominal Hero.
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Sharpe / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Sharpe / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Throughout the series there are plenty of green recruits and untested regiments that Sharpe has to whip into shape.
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Sharpe / int_c0d106a8	type	Wrecked Weapon
Sharpe / int_c0d106a8	comment	Wrecked Weapon: Sharpe's Sword. Sharpe's sword breaks and Sergeant Harper sets out to find a new one for him while Sharpe is recovering from a near lethal injury and subsequent infection.
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Sharpe / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Sharpe / int_c32ff031	comment	Lt. Colonel Christoper in Sharpe's Havoc comes up with a truly brilliant Xanatos Gambit, which either makes him the richest man in Europe or a British war hero. Unfortunately, he is too arrogant, sadistic, and incompetent to adapt his plan when Sharpe starts taking third options all over the place.
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Sharpe / int_c3782352	type	Exiled to the Couch
Sharpe / int_c3782352	comment	Exiled to the Couch: Sharpe removes himself to the barn in Sharpe's Revenge to resist bedding Lucille while his wife's infidelity is still in doubt. This lasts until he finds Harper there, newly returned from London, who confirms Jane has taken up with another man.
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Sharpe / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
Sharpe / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Isaiah Tongue, one of Sharpe's Riflemen, was a former teacher and often served as a translator. Later Sharpe himself becomes fluent in Spanish and French, mostly by falling in love with women of the appropriate nationalities.
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Sharpe / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Sharpe / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: In the novel Sharpe's Siege, Sharpe and his force of Riflemen and Royal Marines engineer their way out of a fort surrounded by the French by surrendering it to an American privateer who was fighting the War of 1812 - and trapped in the fort with them. This plot was discarded in the television episode in favor of Sharpe having to fight his way out. Again due to budgetary constraints.
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Sharpe / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Sharpe / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Tippoo Sultan practices it in Tiger. He has prisoners executed by Jetti's in a sort of pseudo religious practice. Note that Tippo Sultan actually ABOLISHED human sacrifice in real life.
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Sharpe / int_c6898a73	type	Ret-Canon
Sharpe / int_c6898a73	comment	Ret-Canon: Sharpe was originally a Londoner, but since Sean Bean had a Yorkshire accent Cornwell wrote in later novels that Sharpe moved to Yorkshire before being recruited. Sharpe's characterization in the later novels is tweaked to be more like Sean Bean's Sharpe. The episode of Sharpe's Rifles reduced Sharpe's Rifles to a handful instead of around fifty, setting the tone for the series' stronger Squad feel (except for the episode of Sharpe's Gold, which followed the novels in having a lot more Riflemen but then caused a Continuity Snarl). The novels written during and after the TV series tend to isolate Sharpe, Harper and the TV Chosen Men (Hagman, Harris, etc.) from the army on their own adventures, eventually reuniting with the army for the Final Battle. The show itself is responsible for Harris and Perkins entering the novels.
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Sharpe / int_c6e5d575	type	Retirony
Sharpe / int_c6e5d575	comment	Ret Irony: Subverted by d'Alembord, who is due to retire and get married but stays on for one last battle. That last happens to be Waterloo and he is convinced he is going to die. He loses a leg, but survives.
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Sharpe / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sharpe / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A good many: Cornwell ties in his novel Sharpe's Escape into C.S. Forester's 1932 novel Death To The French by implying that Forester's protagonist, Rifleman Matthew Dodd, was part of Sharpe's Light Company during the Battle of Bussaco (Cornwell later confirmed that the Dodd in his novel is supposed to be the Dodd from Forester's). Death To The French, which follows the wartime adventures of a British rifleman who is separated from his Regiment during that battle, was likely one of the inspirations for the Sharpe novels. In the book Sharpe's Tiger, the Moonstone from Wilkie Collins' novel of the same name makes a brief cameo appearance. Rifleman Benjamin Harris was named after a soldier in the Real Life 95th Rifles, who dictated (he was illiterate) a story of his memories from the Peninsular Campaign, and whose book served as an inspiration for the Sharpe series.
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Sharpe / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
Sharpe / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Both Sharpe and Harper play this trope out over the course of the series: Sharpe starts as an illiterate private who joined the army to escape a murder charge. He eventually winds up a retired Lieutenant Colonel, who can read and write in four languages and lives on a chateau (albeit a small one with a leaky roof) in France. He also gains and loses and re-gains several fortunes over the course of his career. Harper similarly joined the army to escape trouble at home in Ireland and he is first featured attempting to desert from the army in Portugal. At the end of the series, he's a retired Regimental Sergeant Major who runs a successful pub and horse thieving business back home in Ireland with his Spanish bride. This trope is also played out on a smaller scale in many of the novels. Sharpe and Harper often finish a book one rank up from where they started.
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Sharpe / int_c9981efb	type	The Engineer
Sharpe / int_c9981efb	comment	The Engineer: Major Hogan's other hat is that of combat engineer. He is shown most often in the novels as performing various tasks as the engineer he is.
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Sharpe / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Sharpe / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Sharpe may be an officer, but he's not a gentleman. Played with for varying officer characters in the books. Some are genuine gentlemen while others are just pretending to keep up appearances. Both are frequent themes and depending on which one the officer comes across as often decides on whether or not Sharpe will like them.
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Sharpe / int_cbc54501	type	Faction Calculus
Sharpe / int_cbc54501	comment	Faction Calculus: Several novels break this down. The French are the Horde, relying on crushing numbers of musket-wielding conscripts. They march in columns, which let only the first few ranks fire their weapons, but have a psychological effect on the enemy at seeing the sheer number arrayed against them. Each French soldier has relatively little training, and even their skirmishers use relatively short range, inaccurate muskets instead of rifles (Napoleon dismissed rifles for their much longer reload times, which are exacerbated in cases of volley fire). The British are a combination of Powerhouse and Subversive. Their army is composed of a smaller number of professional soldiers. Even the fresh recruits are permitted to train with live ammo, a privilege denied French conscripts. The British deploy rifle companies in battle and especially as skirmishers, allowing them to pick off French skirmishers and officers from beyond the range of French muskets.
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Sharpe / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Sharpe / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: Many of the common soldiery is perfectly expendable in the novels.
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Sharpe / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Sharpe / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Obidiah Hakeswill, although admittedly he has managed to climb the ranks a bit. He delights in torturing other soldiers and using dirty tricks to help fuel his personal debauchery. He is so inherently vile and nasty that even officers are afraid of him. The only reason he is kept around is proves himself useful in propping up inept or corrupt officers and keeps the ire of the men suppressed by fear and bullying.
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Sharpe / int_cfd25d52	type	Shoot Your Mate
Sharpe / int_cfd25d52	comment	Shoot Your Mate: In Sharpe's Tiger, then-Private Sharpe and Lt. Lawford are sent to infiltrate Seringapatam and rescue Colonel McCandless, an intelligence agent. To prove his loyalty to Tippo Sultan, Sharpe is given a loaded musket and told to kill McCandless. Naturally, the musket doesn't fire properly. Sharpe later tells Lawford that he knew the gunpowder used to prime the musket was bad, but it's left ambiguous whether Sharpe knew about the bad powder before or after he fired the weapon. It's a good bet he knew the musket wouldn't fire though. As he so rightly points out to Lawford, at that point the Tippoo Sultan had no idea whether or not Sharpe and Lawford were spies and potential assassins, and so the last thing he would do is give Sharpe a working weapon while he was standing right next to him. Subverted later in the same novel when British scouts are seen outside the fortress walls, Sharpe and Lawford are given rifles and told to shoot the scouts. Sharpe tries in earnest to kill one of the scouts but his shot goes wide by a matter of inches; Lawford tries to shoot wide of his target but ends up killing the soldier by mistake. Played extremely straight in Sharpe's Challenge, when Sharpe and Harper are the Fake Defectors. Sharpe is ordered to kill Harper using a musket he just loaded, but at the last moment he realises that the powder is bad and the shot won't fire, so he goes along with it.
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Sharpe / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Sharpe / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Anthony Pohlmann, the German leader of Scindia's army, generally comes off as a reasonable and affable individual. He criticizes some of the more severe practices of the British Army, and many of his European and Indian officers are happy under his command. After meeting him in person, Sharpe is briefly tempted to join up with him. When Pohlmann reappears in Sharpe's Trafalgar, he and Sharpe even strike up a brief friendship, though it ends when Pohlmann turns out to be part of Peculiar Cromwell's conspiracy to sell the Calliope to France. When Sharpe discovers Pohlmann dead on the deck of the Revenant, he remarks that Pohlmann was a good soldier, just with an unfortunate habit of choosing the wrong side.
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Sharpe / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Sharpe / int_d013cd12	comment	Sergeant Havercamp of Sharpe's Regiment also gets away with everything he did, as he's a Lovable Rogue and points out, accurately, that he's the best recruiting Sergeant that Sharpe's got.
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Sharpe / int_d1ebedfb	type	Armchair Military
Sharpe / int_d1ebedfb	comment	Armchair Military: British and French examples alike: Sir Henry Simmerson in Sharpe's Eagle and Sir Augustus Farthingdale in Sharpe's Enemy represent a class of British "officers" that are the bane of professionals like Wellington and Sharpe; both are rich enough to have purchased commissions in the Army with no actual military experience, and both assume that they'll be made generals after their first actual engagement. Cornwell enjoys himself poking fun at several of Napoleon's Marshals, supposedly the most brilliant and aggressive military leaders in France after Napoleon himself; In Sharpe's Havoc, while the British are crossing the Porto river, using boats that the French patrols failed to scoop up, Marshall Soult is arguing with his cook about the menu for that evening's banquet (in his historical note, Cornwell admits that he made this up, but what is true is that Soult slept in until almost noon on the day of the battle); In Sharpe's Escape, Marshall Ney notices the British moving on the Bussaco ridge, and sends a runner back to Marshall Massena to ask for orders; since Massena is occupied with his 18-year-old mistress, he makes the runner yell through the door, and eventually tells him to take dinner and wait until he's done (in his historical note, Cornwell says this really happened).
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Sharpe / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Colonel Girdwood does this to Harper in Sharpe's Regiment, luckily Sharpe helps Harper escape.
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Sharpe / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Sharpe / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Sharpe and his men are members of the 95th Rifles, an elite unit using camouflage, skirmisher tactics and advanced (for the time) weaponry, hence, the closest thing to special forces in the Napoleonic Era. True to form, (for the most part) everyone seems completely incapable - on a unit level, at least - of getting anything done without them. Although 'glamorous' may not be exactly the word; none of them are exactly gentlemen. Various historical units like the Scottish Grenadiers are noted as elite troops. Same goes for several cavalry units. They are considered prestigious units to be a part of or to lead. In general, the British Army is noted to suffer from this in the public eye, as everyone admires the Navy over them.
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Sharpe / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Sharpe / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Sharpe's Devil has the "one-hero-to-another" version, delivered by Sharpe (who's had enough of war) to Cochrane (who definitely hasn't).
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Sharpe / int_d7f6f486	type	The Other Darrin
Sharpe / int_d7f6f486	comment	Played straight with Harry Price. Maybe. He's apparently killed in the adaptation of Sharpe's Company, but three years later a different actor plays "Harry Price" in the adaptation of Sharpe's Waterloo. It's unclear whether he's meant to be The Other Darrin or a violation of the One-Steve Limit. In the books, they're the same character and he also appears in most of the intervening novels.
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Sharpe / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Sharpe / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Many, as well as another rank Sharpe holds as he climbs the ranks.
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Sharpe / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Sharpe / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Teresa is a famous partisan leader called La Aguja - The Needle (because she favors the stiletto and the rapier.) She unwinds by killing Frenchmen. Sarah Fry grows into one over the course of Sharpe's Escape. Initially a governess for a wealthy Portuguese family, she seems far more comfortable adventuring behind enemy lines with Sharpe. By the end of the novel, she's wearing trousers and shooting at French soldiers.
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Sharpe / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Sharpe / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Sharpe and Teresa. Not only do they meet and initially fall for each other on a battle field hiding from Lancers fighting for the French, they work together on a few occasions to thwart the French's plans in Spain.
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Sharpe / int_db911ee	type	Field Promotion
Sharpe / int_db911ee	comment	Field Promotion: How Sharpe is risen up from the ranks to the officer's mess in the first place. He saved Wellington from enemy soldiers after Wellington was unhorsed in India. Harper is promoted up to regimental Sergeant-Major when Sharpe's current one is killed in Sharpe's Regiment. Implied at Waterloo, when the Duke tells Sharpe the South Essex is "your battalion now" during the climax of the battle.
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Sharpe / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
Sharpe / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: Sharpe and to a lesser extent Harper, are renowned throughout the army and even back home in England for their bravery and feats on the battlefield. The South Essex recruiting Sergeants brag about how the pair are part of the Regiment, and Sharpe is well-received in the court of the Prince Regent.
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Sharpe / int_dc955e66	type	Inspired by…
Sharpe / int_dc955e66	comment	Inspired byâ€¦: The character of Rifleman Harris is named after a real individual, Private Benjamin Harris of the 95th Rifles who fought in the Peninsular War and, upon returning home, dictated an account of his experiences to an acquaintance. Eventually published as "The Recollections of Rifleman Harris", it's one of the few accounts of life in the British Army as an enlisted soldier and was one of Bernard Cornwell's main sources when he researched and wrote the Sharpe novels. An alcoholic Irish sergeant appears in Sharpe's Sword as a death room attendant. He gives sincere comfort to the dying men in his care, assuring them they fought like heroes and died well. The afterword explains that this character's name, general history, demeanor, and alcoholism are historically accurate, though the real man was in charge of the entire hospital, not just the death room.
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Sharpe / int_dccc5309	type	Do with Him as You Will
Sharpe / int_dccc5309	comment	Do with Him as You Will: Dubreton hands Hakeswill over to Sharpe in Sharpe's Enemy.
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Sharpe / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Sharpe / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Patrick Harper pretty much occupies this position We only have about one scene of Sharpe leading men as a sergeant, but from what brief interactions we see, and considering the fact that not getting punished for his men being killed actually makes Sharpe feel worse, he may have been this, to a degree.
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Sharpe / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Sharpe / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Many, many villains give this, usually in the form of a threat or boastful speech. It never takes.
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Sharpe / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
Sharpe / int_e41cf31d	comment	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge: Sharpe's Company, when storming the breach Sharpe gets carried away and butchers a French soldier who was surrendering. He immediately realises and regrets this.
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Sharpe / int_e50818aa	type	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now
Sharpe / int_e50818aa	comment	Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: In an age where a flesh wound of just about any kind would have a roughly fifty-fifty chance of killing a man, Sharpe survives multiple life-threatening injuries without so much as a brush with gangrene - though he does, at one point, very nearly die of fever induced by a wound and is found in a ward for the dying.
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Sharpe / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Sharpe / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Captain Joel Chase of Sharpe's Trafalgar is one for Lucky Jack Aubrey, being a courageous naval captain well-loved by his men who comes across as far less capable when confined to land. He even gets to explain naval matters to the landlubber Sharpe, just like Aubrey does for Maturin. Notably, Aubrey himself missed the Battle of Trafalgar altogether in his own series.
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Sharpe / int_e67ff203	type	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Sharpe / int_e67ff203	comment	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Mary in Tiger, and Simone in Fortress.
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Sharpe / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Sharpe / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: It's safe to assume that any Spanish officer of at least the rank of Major will be this.
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Sharpe / int_e8aa2b1d	type	Tactical Withdrawal
Sharpe / int_e8aa2b1d	comment	Tactical Withdrawal: Most of the novel Sharpe's Escape follows Wellington's retreat through Portugal to the Lines of Torres Vedras.
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Sharpe / int_e95acf73	type	Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Sharpe / int_e95acf73	comment	Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Whenever Sharpe has to get somewhere by ship in the books, particularly in Sharpe's Trafalgar and Sharpe's Devil. Sharpe finds himself at the heart of the battle of Trafalgar onboard a British Warship.
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Sharpe / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Sharpe / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Done twice in Sharpe's Triumph, both to prevent Sharpe from being arrested by Hakeswill. The first time, McCandless smudges the "e" in "Sharpe" on the warrant, then tells Hakeswill that he obviously has the wrong man, since the warrant is for a "Sergeant Richard Sharp" not "Sharpe". The second time, Colonel Wallace tells Hakeswill that he's allowed to arrest Sergeant Sharpe, but not Ensign Sharpe.
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Sharpe / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Sharpe / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: It's a favourite. Sharpe ends one fight with a Giant Mook by stabbing him in the balls.
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Sharpe / int_ec99fb76	type	Cloak and Dagger
Sharpe / int_ec99fb76	comment	Cloak and Dagger: Major Ducos is responsible for French intelligence, Hogan's Evil Counterpart, and a notable opponent of Sharpe. The "El Mirador" network of spies.
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Sharpe / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Sharpe / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: When Sharpe first takes command of Riflemen in Sharpe's Rifles, they've just been decimated after a battle and he's the only officer left. The number of original survivors besides Sharpe and Harper declines until years later at Waterloo, only Hagman is left - and he dies too. Of others associated with him, D'Alembord loses a leg and Private Clayton dies.
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Sharpe / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Sharpe / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Sir William In Sharpe's Justice and, to a lesser extent, Sharpe himself.
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Sharpe / int_edc22fe8	type	Cartwright Curse
Sharpe / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Sharpe gets a new girlfriend frequently - partly because a lot of the books were written after Sharpe's Waterloo, which confirmed his relationship with Lucille. They always leave, either by running away with his money, dying, or otherwise being written out.
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Sharpe / int_eed678bf	type	Deep Cover Agent
Sharpe / int_eed678bf	comment	Deep Cover Agent: El Mirador and the network of spies. They are ensconced through out Europe including occupied territories and even France itself.
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Sharpe / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Sharpe / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Ducos turns out to be this to the French Empire, stealing part of the Imperial treasure then running away. Other examples include incompetent and scheming officers who try to take Wellington down. Sharpe is generally this to any useless superiors, and even tries to murder the very useless Prince of Orange at Waterloo - though only after the Prince's incompetence had got several entire battalions slaughtered and he looked set to get more killed.
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Sharpe / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Sharpe / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Pot-Au-Feu appears in Sharpe's Havoc prior to his desertion as Sergeant Deron, Marshal Soult's cook, who stolidly argues him into submission about how he's going to cook things.
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Sharpe / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
Sharpe / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: See Suicide Mission below for the Forlorn Hope. Attacks on breaches were often considered an act of suicide as the first troops tripped the enemy traps, ambushes, and were the first targets of readied enemy cannon and troops. Infantry in column against a line, and loose formations or one-on-one against cavalry was often akin to committing suicide. Cavalry attacking a prepared infantry square was often detrimental to the cavalry unless they found a breach to exploit. Directly attacking artillery loaded with double loads of canister or grape shot would result in a large number of casualties and attempts were usually made to avoid that scenario.
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Sharpe / int_f243e0a7	type	Dangerous Deserter
Sharpe / int_f243e0a7	comment	Dangerous Deserter: A few, notably Obidiah Hakeswill, not that he was exactly a bundle of laughs before he deserted.
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Sharpe / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Sharpe / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: At the siege of Badajoz in Sharpe's Company, after the first assault has been repelled, Sharpe sees some poor nameless redcoat staggering about with a bloody ruin where his arm used to be. He shoots him dead on the spot. Horrifically averted in Sharpe's Waterloo. Blinded and maimed, Lord John Rossendale begs for death on multiple occasions, but each of them want to rob him and tell him to shut up. He eventually succumbs to his injuries after hours of agony.
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Sharpe / int_f5663a6f	type	Dropped Glasses
Sharpe / int_f5663a6f	comment	Dropped Glasses: In Sharpe's Enemy, Sharpe smashes Major Ducos' glasses. Badass, sure, but earning the ire of a ruthless French spymaster winds up causing Sharpe havoc for years to come.
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Sharpe / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Sharpe / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Sharpe is decidedly prone to murdering his enemies, whether they're on his own side or not.
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Sharpe / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Sharpe / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect??: No matter how many times Sharpe saves Wellington's bacon or saves the army or defeats the bad guys or performs other heroic feats, the rich, gentlemanly officers (with a very few exceptions) think he's just an arrogant upstart who needs to be taught his place. This becomes a common theme with Sharpe often clashing with the wealthy upper class of the officers, except his closest friends, most of whom are in even worse circumstances than his own, as is often the case with soldiers after the war is done.
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Sharpe / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Sharpe / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Young and promising officers who gain Sharpe's grudging respect, particularly Ensigns, tend to die.
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Sharpe / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
Sharpe / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: The characters of Harris and Perkins were created for the film series, but proved popular enough to find their way into many of the later books.
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Sharpe / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Sharpe / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: The young Portuguese officer Jorge Vicente is introduced as very young, highly inexperienced, and excessively polite and proper. The same scene reveals that he's just executed his own sergeant for urging surrender, before leading three dozen panicked volunteers in a counter-attack that saved Sharpe and his Riflemen from a hopeless fight.
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Sharpe / int_fe8a1029	type	Feed the Mole
Sharpe / int_fe8a1029	comment	Feed the Mole: Sharpe's Sword. It's Sharpe feeding information to la Marquesa that allows The Duke of Wellington to win the Battle of Salamanca.
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Sharpe	hasFeature	Exit, Pursued by a Bear / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Eyepatch of Power / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Fake Defector / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Famed In-Story / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Fashion Hurts / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Fictional Combat Troop / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Field Promotion / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Fleeting Passionate Hobbies / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Four-Star Badass / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Gaining the Will to Kill / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Gentlemen Rankers / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Good Ol' Boy / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Good Old Fisticuffs / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Heroic Bastard / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Heroic Wannabe / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Historical Villain Downgrade / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Hollywood Density / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	I Want My Mommy! / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten! / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Incurable Cough of Death / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Interquel / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Knight Errant / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Recoil / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Let's You and Him Fight / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Listing Cities / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Little Hero, Big War / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Locked Away in a Monastery / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Long-Running Book Series / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Lord Error-Prone / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Majorly Awesome / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Men of Sherwood / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Military Maverick / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Mistakenly Attacked Mole / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	More Dakka / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Neck Snap / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	No Place for a Warrior / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Orphanage of Fear / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Orphanage of Love / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Overly Long Spanish Name / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Plunder / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Pointy-Haired Boss / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Powder Trail / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Powerful, but Inaccurate / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Rags to Riches / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Real Men Get Shot / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Real Men Love Jesus / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Recruiters Always Lie / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Regency England / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Retirony / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Rousing Speech / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Royal Rapier / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Rule #1 / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sand in My Eyes / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sarcastic Clapping / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Scars are Forever / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sergeant Rock / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Serial Rapist / int_d1710608
Sharpe	seeAlso	Sharpe
Sharpe	hasFeature	Shoot Out the Lock / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Shoot the Bullet / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Shoot Your Mate / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Show Some Leg / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sins of Our Fathers / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sissy Villain / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Sociopathic Soldier / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Son of a Whore / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a "The" / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Stiff Upper Lip / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Still Wearing the Old Colors / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Suave Sabre / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Superstitious Sailors / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Suspiciously Small Army / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Tactical Withdrawal / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Taking the Veil / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Butcher / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Captain / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Engineer / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Man They Couldn't Hang / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Musketeer / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Neidermeyer / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Spymaster / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	The Women Are Safe with Us / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Unfriendly Fire / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Up Through the Ranks / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Victorian Novel Disease / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Wasteland Warlord / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	We All Die Someday / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	We Named the Monkey "Jack" / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Weapon-Based Characterization / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	When She Smiles / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	/ int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Wooden Ships and Iron Men / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Working-Class Hero / int_d1710608
Sharpe	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_d1710608
sharpe	sameAs	Sharpe
Sharpe	hasFeature	Happily Ever After / int_d1710608

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