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We celebrate kings, we honour great men, we admire aristocrats, we applaud actors, we shower gold on portrait painters and we even, sometimes, reward soldiers, but we always despise merchants.

— Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Tiger (1997)

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Defeat the enemy's infantry and the cavalry and gunners had nowhere to hide.

Sharpe's Triumph (1997)

You can keep your sword, for you fought proper. Like a proper soldier. Take your blade to paradise, and tell them you were killed by another proper soldier.

Sharpe's Tiger (1997)

Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford.

Sharpe's Triumph (1997)

All feared the artillery, coughing its death in fan-like swathes.

Made in Sheffield, and guaranteed never to fail! Good slicer this is, real good. You can cut a man in half with one of these if you get the stroke right.

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