I saw and liked the movie and kind of wrassled with one of the books. It did not grab me the way Hornblower did or as Lewrie does. Maybe I ought to give it another look.
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set in the Napoleonic era, although the action often involves events other than those wars
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They pretty well have to be. Major actions in those days were pretty well documented and it is tough to slip in a whole extra ship. Q.V. Hornblower off dealing with Latin American dictator El Supremo.
I went through Sharpe, book and TV. I thought it was very conscientious the way Cornwell wrote an afterword describing how he squeezed Sharpe into historical events.
Sharpe's company was in on one campaign replacing the 101st which didn't do much anyhow. And when he tracked down the Deserters' Army to rescue the milord's wife, there really was a group of deserters from all sides led by a French cook and living by brigandage on the natives and small detachments. Only thing was, it was a French operation that shut it down, not British.