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Trafalgar and Copenhagen · 1805, at sea

Sharpe's Trafalgar

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Sailing home from India, Sharpe ends up in the biggest sea battle of the age

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Not required. It's left out of the main story but is part of the full chronological order.

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Quick recap

1805. Sharpe sails home from India aboard the Calliope to join the 95th Rifles. He helps Captain Joel Chase recover stolen money, and Chase is ordered to hunt the French ship Revenant. Aboard are Lord Hale, his wife Lady Grace and the renegade Pohlmann, posing as a baron. Sharpe has an affair with Lady Grace and kills the secretary who tries to blackmail her. The Revenant captures the Calliope, but Sharpe cuts the tiller ropes and Chase retakes her. Lady Grace tells Sharpe she's pregnant. At Trafalgar, the Revenant is taken, Pohlmann is killed and Sharpe throws the French agent overboard. Lord Hale threatens to kill his wife, and she kills him. Sharpe moves the body on deck so it looks like a battle death.

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What changed on screen

  1. ReferenceEnter the seven-barrel gun

    The book introduces the Nock seven-barrel gun, which becomes the favorite weapon of a future friend of Sharpe's.

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  2. Behind the scenesTrafalgar to Waterloo

    In his historical note, Cornwell says Spaniard Miguel de Álava is the only real man he knows of who fought at both Trafalgar and Waterloo.

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