June 1815, and as Eurpe heads towards one of the most decisive battles in history,
the British and their allies are preparing for a grand society ball in Brussels. Amongst
the names on the glittering guest=list is a very reluctant newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel
Richard Sharpe.
Lured back to the army from a rural idyll, Sharpe finda himself on the personal staff of the young frog, Frederick,
Prince of Orange, who, at a tender age and with no experience whatsoever, has been given commond of large proportion
of the Allied Forces. More concerned with cutting a dash at the ball, the young Frog refuses to listen to Sharpe's
scouting report of an enormous French army marching towards Brussels with the lately returned Emperor Napoleon at its
head-until it is nearly too late.
In the midle of the festivities Sharpe bursts in with the news that the British-prussian link is under attack- and in the scramble
that ensues, as officers are ordered to rejoin their regiments, he comes face-to-face with his estranged wife, Jane, and her lover, Lord John
Rossendale, on whom he has sworn revenge.
The British counter Napoleon's cavalry at Quatre Bras and suffer heavy loss-but this is juist a perlude to what to come. The Battle of waterloo,
when it commence, is the most hard-fought and bloody of Sharpe's long career, for Wellington has few reserves left of men and guns with which to holds back
the massive French attack until the long-awaited Prussian army arrives. Victory, a seeming impossibility, rests on the determination of the British infantry
in the face of vastly superior fire power and repeated French cavalry charges.
Sharpe's Devil
and was last updated on Aug 1,1998
