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Sharpe's Trafalgar : Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805 / Bernard Cornwell.

by Cornwell, Bernard.

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Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805 -- Fiction.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History, Military -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe series ; 4.

9780061098628 (trade pbk.)

293 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

First published 2001.

"In which Ensign Richard Sharpe, traveling home aboard the Revenant, meets Admiral Nelson and his fleet on what was a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar"--Cover.

"The year is 1805, and the Calliope, with Richard Sharpe aboard, is captured by a formidable French warship, the Revenant, which has been terrorizing British nautical traffic in the Indian Ocean. The French warship races toward the safety of its own fleet, carrying a stolen treaty that could provoke India into a new war against the British -- and render for naught all that Sharpe has bravely fought for till now. But help comes from an unexpected quarter. An old friend, a captain in the Royal Navy, is on the trail of the Revenant, and Sharpe comes aboard a 74-gun man-of-war called Pucelle in hot pursuit. What results is a breathtaking retelling of one of the most ferocious and one-sided sea battles in European history, in which Nelson -- and Sharpe -- vanquish the combined naval might of France and Spain at Trafalgar."--FantasticFiction.com.

Historical fiction.

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