Mellors wasn't mentioned in Sharpe's Enemy, Honour, Regiment, Christmas, Siege, Revenge, or Waterloo. He also appears in Sharpe's Gold where he was last seen wounded. Price has minor roles in the next few novels. However, the King's German Legion cavalry break through the squares at a heavy loss, and Leroux surrenders. He can neither read nor write, but he is the best marksman among the Rifles. During her time there, she witnesses a play being held in London, and as Sharpe and Harper investigate, she stays with a few of Harper's relatives in Southwark. Cooper played by Michael Mears - due to be in only one of the three episodes this series - leaves prematurely. Sharpe is required to hang him by Wellington's standing orders, but when the girl says she had been willing, Sharpe reduces the sentence to a beating from Sergeant Harper. 2004: Sharpe's Escape. When Gibbons attacks her after suborning her maids, she is protected by Sharpe but they do not become lovers, due to the presence of Teresa Moreno in the story, sometime before the couple meet in the novel continuity. He died in Sharpe's arms a week later as the South Essex fought off a French attempt to break up the line of march to Pasajes in Sharpe's Regiment. 2004: Sharpe's Escape. Cornwell, B. 1988: Sharpe's Rifles. Sharpe, 71, of Marlborough, faces eight counts of first-degree kidnapping, two for each victim. In 1809, Leroy purchased a Captain's commission in the fictional South Essex Regiment, where he first meets Richard Sharpe in the novel Sharpe's Eagle. At Bussaco, after Sharpe rescues a detachment of the Light Company from one of Slingsby's blunders, Slingsby demands an apology for Sharpe using harsh language towards him. Sharpe aimed at Bampfylde to kill, but instead shot Bampfylde through the buttocks. William Frederickson comes from Westphalia. Ducos is described as short, his face scarred by smallpox. [18] Although he would have accompanied Sharpe in the retreat to Corunna, was he was never mentioned in Sharpe's Rifles. Kelly helps Sharpe and the Chosen Men fight against the band of deserters. He earns Sharpe's respect. Wellington features throughout the Bernard Cornwell Sharpe novels and in the television series directed by Tom Clegg.