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 Fortress of Rifleman Sharp”, the hero will be lured into a trap and sold to the Indians, who will prepare for him a terrible death. Many trials will fall to the lot of 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 third novel in the series “The Adventures of Richard Sharpe.”