A company of the 95th under Major Dunnett is being sent to search for him, and Sharpe's first assignment is to command the Chosen Men, a handful of sharpshooters attached to the company.

Sharpe, still uncomfortable in his new rank, does not make a good impression on his men, particularly their unofficial leader, Irishman Patrick Harper.

From Season 1 Episode 1 "Sharpe's Rifle": In 1809, Sir Arthur Wellesley, the commander of the British army fighting the French in Portugal, is saved from three pursuing French cavalrymen by Sergeant Richard Sharpe of the 95th Rifles. Wellesley rewards Sharpe with a field commission to Lieutenant.

Wellesley has no money to pay his men's wages; however, he has arranged for a loan from the Rothschild family. James Rothschild has set out from Vienna with a badly needed bank draft but has gone missing in the Spanish mountains.

Harper tells Sharpe that the men have decided that they want to return to the army, threatening to kill Sharpe if he refuses to let them go. To assert his authority, Sharpe engages Harper in a brutal fistfight, but the men are taken unawares by a band of Spanish guerrillas led by Commandante Teresa Moreno and Major Blas Vivar. Sharpe begins to bond with his men and also with Teresa and on the eve of the attack, Sharpe promotes Harper to Sergeant.

Sharpe, Teresa, Vivar and their men attack and defeat the French garrison. Vivar crosses swords with the man in black, who turns out to be his own brother and kills him. He then raises the flag.
At the end of the battle, Colonel de L'Eclin is about to shoot an unarmed Sharpe but is shot and killed by Rifleman Perkins. Sharpe rewards the young Perkins by making him a Chosen Man, though Hogan advises Perkins to decline the favour.

Sharpe reports back to Wellesley and afterwards, he and Teresa make love, before she leaves to continue fighting the French.

Welcome to the OFFICIAL Sharpe YouTube Channel.

Follow Sharpe, a fictional British Soldier as he fights during the Napoleonic Wars!
Sharpe is a British period drama series starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, and Daragh O'Malley as his second in command, Patrick Harper.

Throughout the series, Sharpe gradually gets promoted through the ranks but makes a number of dangerous enemies along the way. Eventually, his success gains him a steady promotion, and by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he becomes Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe!

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