The Spanish commoners hate the French invaders, but are dispirited and need something to rally around. Vivar invites the British to travel with him to escort them back to Portugal, but does not reveal his hidden agenda. Their leader, Patrick Harper, and Sharpe fight, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Spanish Major Blas Vivar and his men. However, the men do not want to follow him. Sharpe takes up Captain Murray's heavy cavalry sword after Murray dies and takes command of the surviving riflemen (from the 95th Rifles). Sharpe's battalion, acting as rearguard to the British Army in its retreat to Corunna, are cut down by a squadron of French regular cavalry. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is caught up in the French invasion of Galicia, Spain in January 1809. Sharpe's Rifles is chronologically the sixth, but the ninth published, historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1988. Print ( Hardcover and Paperback) and audio-CD
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