Christopher contacts and encourages the potential mutineers, but intends to betray them to Soult. French Marshal Soult would like to declare himself King of Portugal, but his royal ambition does not sit well with many of his officers. He has instead decided to use the situation to enrich himself. Despite his hatred of lawyers, Sharpe gradually comes to respect Vincente.Ĭhristopher was sent by the British Foreign Office to Portugal to evaluate the situation in Portugal. Sharpe and his detachment, orphaned from the 95th Rifles, are trapped when the French seize Oporto, but are unexpectedly saved by a small detachment of Portuguese soldiers led by Lieutenant Jorge Vicente, a law student in civilian life. After Horgan leaves, however, Christopher dismisses Sharpe and his men. Hogan also tells Sharpe to "keep a close eye" on Colonel James Christopher, who has been staying with the Savages and was the one who requested help in retrieving her.
For some unknown reason, she ran away from her home in Oporto. The story is set largely in Portugal during General Arthur Wellesley's Oporto Campaign in 1809, part of the Napoleonic Wars.ĭuring a general British and Portuguese retreat from the French after the First Battle of Porto, Captain Hogan orders Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and his men to help find and escort to safety 19-year-old Englishwoman Kate Savage, the daughter of a recently deceased prominent port merchant. Sharpe's Havoc: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Oporto is the seventh historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 2003. Print ( Hardcover and Paperback) and audio-CD
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