Sharpe Escorts Marie Angelique In His Final Quest, Sharpe

Whilst still missing his past life, Sharpe reluctantly agrees to travel to the hill fort of Kalimgong with Patrick and MarieAngelique. From Sharpe s Peril: On their way home to England, Richard Sharpe and Patrick Harper reluctantly agree to escort MarieAngelique Bonnet to the hill fort of Kalimgong, where her fiancé, Major Joubert is stationed. They encounter a baggage train heading to Madras, made up of soldiers from the King s and the East India Company s armies, commanded by the young Ensign Beauclere, engineer Major Tredinnick, and Subedar Pillai. Arriving at Kalimgong, Sharpe and Harper find the entire garrison killed, with the exception of the fort s commander, General Sir Henry Simmerson, Sharpe s old enemy. Strung up naked in the courtyard, Simmerson s mind is addled with the heat and he seems to only speak nonsense, such as save the Major Joubert is not among the dead, to MarieAngelique s relief, but neither are the Company ledge