Quick recap
1810. Colonel Lawford saddles Sharpe with Lieutenant Cornelius Slingsby, an incompetent who seems to want his job. Sharpe wrecks a scheme by Major Pedro Ferreira and his giant brother Ferragus to sell flour to the French, and Ferragus nearly kills him. At Bussaco, Slingsby's blunders almost wipe out the company, and Sharpe, refusing to apologize, is made quartermaster. In Coimbra, Ferragus traps Sharpe, Harper and Captain Jorge Vicente in a cellar, and they escape through a sewer. At the Lines of Torres Vedras, Slingsby gets drunk and the French attack. Ferreira and Ferragus try to surrender the post, Ferragus is killed by a French shot, and Sharpe beats back the attack. Fed up with Slingsby, Lawford puts Sharpe back in command.
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