Sharpe's Fury (The Sharpe Series)

In the winter of 1811 the war seems to be lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster, thanks to the brutal savagery of the French Colonel Vandal who is leading his battalion to join the siege of Cadiz. Sharpe extricates a handful of men from the debacle and is driven south into the threatened city. There, in Cadiz, he discovers more than one enemy...