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 “Shooter Sharpe’s Eagle,” the regiment in which the hero serves suffers a crushing defeat and loses the banner. The only way to restore the honor of the British Royal Forces is to capture the French standard, the golden eagle, awarded personally by Emperor Napoleon to each regiment...The eighth novel in the Adventures of Richard Sharpe series.