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Part I

• Following a successful invasion into southwestern France, the British army organizes to march on Toulouse.

• Jane demands Sharpe resign his commission and return to England with her but he refuses.

• He gives her a power of attorney, advises her to return to England and buy an estate, and claims he will shortly join her. She departs.

• Sharpe fights a duel with Captain Bampfylde arising over situations fully developed in a previous novel.
• Bampfylde's shot flies wide and Sharpe shoots the naval captain in the buttocks.

• Napoleon seeks to hide treasure in the event of failure; a vast sum of gold is shipped to Major Pierre Ducos for concealment.

• Ducos, realizing that France must soon fall, instead decides to steal the money.
• Captain William Frederickson, along with his rifle company, is attached to Major-General Nairn's force.

• Sharpe joins Nairn as chief of staff and Harper joins the...

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