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      SHARPE’S SIEGE

      Richard Sharpe and the

      Winter Campaign, 1814

      BERNARD CORNWELL

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      This novel is a work of fiction. The incidents and some of the characters portrayed in it, while based on real historical events and figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

      HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd.

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      Previously published in paperback by Fontana 1988

      Reprinted five times

      First published in Great Britain by Collins 1987

      Copyright © Rifleman Productions Ltd 1987

      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007298600

      Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2011 ISBN: 9780007346813

      Version: 2017-04-26

      Sharpe’s Siege is dedicated to

      Brenym McNight, Terry Farrand, Bryan Thorniley,

      Diana Colbert, Ray Steele, and Stuart Wilkie;

      with thanks

      Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Map of The French Biscay Coast

       Map of Bassin

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Epilogue

       Historical Note

       Sharpe’s Story

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)

       The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       About the Publisher

      ‘Cornwell has maintained a marvellously high standard throughout the series … brilliantly lucid and compellingly exciting’

       Evening Standard

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      CHAPTER ONE

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      It was ten days short of Candlemas, 1814, and an Atlantic wind carried shivers of cold rain that slapped on narrow cobbled alleys, spilt from the broken gutters of tangled roofs, and pitted the water of St Jean de Luz’s inner harbour. It was a winter wind, cruel as a bared sabre, that whirled chimney smoke into the low January clouds shrouding the corner of south-western France where the British Army had its small

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