Sharpe's Trafalgar [SEP] series
Sharpe's Trafalgar
Sharpe's Trafalgar is the fourth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2000. It is the first of the novels in the wars against Napoleon, putting the army ensign at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The novel is the first time that Sharpe encounters the Nock Gun, originally developed for the Navy and the later weapon of choice of Patrick Harper.
Plot summary.
The year is 1805, and Richard Sharpe is heading from India to England aboard the
Christopher Golden's "Ghosts of Albion". He appears several times in Dudley Pope's Ramage series, and features in "Sharpe's Trafalgar" by Bernard Cornwell. Nelson is the object of the ardent admiration of Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series. In James Joyce's "Ulysses", Nelson is referred to by the character Stephen Dedalus as the 'one-handled adulterer', when speaking of his namesake monument, Nelson's Pillar. Nelson features in James A Michener's "Caribbean"