Аннотация
BERNARD CORNWELL
Sharpe’s Enemy
For my daughter, with love
‘… this system is yet in its infancy… much has been accomplished in a short time and there is every reason to believe that the accuracy of the Rocket may be actually brought upon a par with that of other artillery ammunition for all the important purposes of field service.’
Colonel Sir William Congreve. 1814.PROLOGUE
On December 8th, 1812, the English soldiers first came to Adrados.
The village had escaped the war. It lay in that part of Spain east of the northern Portuguese border and, though it was close to the frontier, few soldiers had passed through its single street.
The French had come once, three years before, but they had been running from the English Lord Wellington and running so fast that they scarcely had time to stop and loot.
Then in May of 1812 the Spanish soldiers had come, the Garrison of Adrados, but the villagers had not minded. There were only fifty soldier...
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