At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British Empire stretched from the English Channel to the Indian Ocean. One of the builders of this empire, a participant in all the wars that England waged at that time, was Rifleman Sharp. In the novel “The Triumph of Rifleman Sharpe,” the hero will face a monstrous betrayal in the ranks of the English troops and will take part in the Battle of Assaye against an enemy with a huge numerical strength. preponderance.Many trials will befall the former London street child who joined the army to escape the hangman's noose. And his fate will be tightly intertwined with the fate of the Duke of Wellington, the future winner of Napoleon at Waterloo. The second novel in the series “The Adventures of Richard Sharpe.”