Sharpe's Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810 (The Sharpe Series, Book 10)

Richard Sharpe, with enemies on every side, survives Marshall Massena's attack and ends at the lines of Torres Vedras.Sharpe's job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment, Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus - a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal's ancient university city.Sharpe's Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint Briti ...