Sharpe’s Eagle is the eight book in the Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell. This book takes place during Wellesley’s Peninsular Campaign. Richard Sharpe makes a couple of enemies on his own side, one of which has a lot of political clout. Sharpe achieves a battlefield promotion to Captain, but the only way Sharpe can avoid a billet to the West Indies is to capture a prized Napoleon Eagle. Sharpe and his trusty Sergeant Harper are going to lead a charge during the battle at Talavera.
Historical Note: I learned about something called the Battalion of Detachments that the British army used during the Napoleon campaigns. During a campaign as battalions lost more and more men, replacements were unavailable so they were put together into a new battalion. The problem was that a lot of men had pride in their battalion because many times they were mustered from the city the men lived. As a Battalion of Detachments, they were thrown together and no longer had that connection.
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