Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Vitoria, June 1813
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I have been missing my good friends, Sharpe, Harper, Aubrey, & Maturin. Here we have a familiar situation: our good Sharpe gets himself into a pickle, having to do with a girl, and must set out on a non-standard-Army-issue adventure across Spain.
His new archenemy, the French intelligence agent Pierre Ducos, is up to his old tricks. This time trying to implicate Sharpe in a murder while eroding Spanish support for the British. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work out for the Crapauds.
The Battle of Vitoria sounds like an absolute rout on the part of Wellington. The French were destroyed and abandoned highly lucrative baggage trains, containing the looted wealth of Spain, gold, silver, paintings, jewels, etc; amassed for the trip back to France. It never made it. Thus ends, for the most part, the Peninsular War. The French lost 151 cannon: they only managed to retreat with two-and one of those was lost during the flight.
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