
While sitting and shelling gallons of peas, we’ve been watching back to back episodes of Sharpe’s Rifles starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe – a soldier’s soldier in Wellington’s army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Aries Sean Bean is perfectly cast in this role – handsome in a rough and ready way with a decided edge to him.
Richard Sharpe is a fictional character created by Bernard Cornwell in a series of historical novels. His mother is a prostitute and he eventually joins the military to avoid the law as well as a life of extreme poverty. [Aside: I [...]
