The Napoleonic Archive
The wars that made the modern world, told through the men who fought them.
Where does Sharpe’s story begin?
In India, 1799. Private Richard Sharpe volunteers for a suicide mission inside Tippu Sultan’s fortress. It is the start of the greatest journey in historical fiction.
Begin in India →Nine hours. Two armies. The future of Europe decided on a two-mile ridge south of Brussels.
From workhouse to lieutenant colonel. The complete guide to the man behind the legend.
The trading company that ruled a continent. Where Wellington was forged and Sharpe began.
What were the Napoleonic Wars? Who fought them? Why do they matter? →
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“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do.”Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
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