Thomas at My Porch posted a meme last week that I enjoyed so I decided to copy his . . . 1. A favorite childhood book? Smoky: The Cow Horse by Will James. I was into horse stories and I read and reread this book many times. 2. What are you reading right now? Sharpe’s…
Tag: Richard Sharpe
Duke of Wellington, Jason Salkey, Sean Bean
My Sharpe Update
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Who is this Sharpe character? Richard Sharpe is a fictional character created by British author Bernard Cornwell and first introduced in Sharpe’s Eagle in 1981 (the 8th book chronologically). As of today, Mr. Cornwell has written 24 books/short stories with Sharpe as the main character. Sharpe is a British soldier serving under Arthur Wellesley (later the…
Sean Bean
Rifleman Harris
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–from http://www.completeseanbean.com I just finished a most intriguing book that was first published in 1848. The full title is Recollections of Rifleman Harris (Old 95th) with Anecdotes of his Officers and his Comrades by Benjamin Randell Harris. Rifleman Harris was an English foot soldier from Dorset who served in the British army from 1803 to…
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