Sharpe's Skirmish : Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tormes, August 1812 - Bernard Cornwell

It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the