Sharpe's Battle: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811 Papers & Assignment Topics

Essay Topics/Writing Assignments

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1. Most of the French are gone when Sharpe and his men arrive at a small settlement, except for two men who are raping a young Spanish girl in one of the cottages. Sharpe and Harper enter the rest of the cottages and find a number of Spanish civilians have been slaughtered, some tortured and raped and many of them children. Sharpe gathers his men and prepares to execute the two Frenchmen who are left. Sharpe has the two prisoners put up against a wall and shot.

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