At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British Empire stretched from the English Channel to the Indian Ocean. One of the soldiers, the builders of the empire, a man who participated in all the wars that England fought at that time, was Rifleman Sharpe. In the novel “The Battle of Rifleman Sharpe”, Richard Sharpe receives under his command a detachment of worthless infantrymen and, instead of taking part in intrigues of high authorities, begins a “personal war” with an elite French brigade exterminating Spanish partisans. The twelfth novel from the series “The Adventures of Richard Sharpe”. For the first time in Russian!