Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe stories

Sharpe's Eagle (1981) was Bernard Cornwell's first novel.

He eventually wrote 21 Sharpe novels and three short stories (and 30 other unrelated novels). Twelve of the novels were made into television films, starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe. Sharpe's right-hand man, RSM Patrick Harper (originally an antagonist) was played by Daragh O'Malley; the Duke of Wellington was played by David Troughton (son of the second Doctor Who) in the first two series, and subsequently by Hugh Fraser.

There were 16 television films altogether, including four that were not based on novels by Cornwell. The first two were broadcast in 1993, and three in each of the following four years (1994-7). The four that were not based on Cornwell novels were Sharpe's Mission (No. 11), Sharpe's Justice (No. 13), Sharpe's Challenge (No. 15) and Sharpe's Peril (No. 16). The last two were broadcast in 2006 and 2008 respectively.

The following table lists the Cornwell novels and stories, in chronological order of publication.

	Publ.	Title	Setting	Date set	Setting order	TV order
1	1981	Sharpe's Eagle	Battle of Talavera	July 1809	8	2
2	1981	Sharpe's Gold	Destruction of Almeida	Aug 1810	9	6
3	1982	Sharpe's Company	Siege of Badajoz	Jan-Apr 1812	13	3
4	1983	Sharpe's Sword	Salamanca campaign	Jun-Jul 1812	14	8
5	1984	Sharpe's Enemy	Defence of Portugal	Dec 1812	16	4
6	1985	Sharpe's Honour	Vitoria campaign	Feb-Jun 1813	17	5
7	1986	Sharpe's Regiment	Invasion of France	Jun-Nov 1813	18	9
8	1987	Sharpe's Siege	Winter Campaign	1814	20	10
9	1988	Sharpe's Rifles	French invasion of Galicia	Jan 1809	6	1
10	1989	Sharpe's Revenge	Peace of 1814	1814	21	12
11	1990	Sharpe's Waterloo	Waterloo campaign	1815	22	14
12	1992	Sharpe's Devil	Sharpe and the Emperor	1820-1	24
	1994	Sharpe's Christmas	(short story)	Dec 1813	19
	1994	Sharpe's Ransom	(short story)	Dec 1816	23
13	1995	Sharpe's Battle	Battle of Fuentes	May 1811	12	7
14	1997	Sharpe's Tiger	Siege of Seringapatam	1799	1
15	1998	Sharpe's Triumph	Battle of Assaye	Sep 1803	2
16	1999	Sharpe's Fortress	Siege of Gawilghur	Dec 1803	3
	1999	Sharpe's Skirmish	Defence of the Tormes (short story)	Aug 1812	15
17	2000	Sharpe's Trafalgar	Battle of Trafalgar	Oct 1805	4
18	2001	Sharpe's Prey	Siege of Copenhagen	1807	5
19	2003	Sharpe's Havoc	Northern Portugal campaign	Spring 1809	7
20	2004	Sharpe's Escape	Battle of Bussaco	Sep 1810	10
21	2007	Sharpe's Fury	Battle of Barrosa	1811	11

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Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe stories