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1813 - The Russian Campaign fails.

Russia and Prussia agree on an armistice. (Konvention von Tauroggen). Prussia breaks its alliance with France. Beginning of the "Befreiungskriege" - Wars of Liberation.

 
Due to the failed Russian Campaign and the enduring Guerilla-War the French troups are decisively weakened.  
 

Sharpe's Enemy
Sharpe's Honour
Sharpe's Gold
Sharpe's Battle
Sharpe's Sword

 

Wellington marches to the French border and defeats the French at Vitoria and at the Battle of the Pyrenees.

Finally, the French Invasion-army retreats back to France, with Wellington always at their heels.

 

  
  Sharpe's Regiment
  The Battle of the Nations at Leipzig ends with Napoleons defeat.

 

 

Sharpe's Siege

1813
   
 

 

A royalist French aristocrat offers his castle in the hinterland of Bordeaux as a foothold to the British.

Sharpe, freshly married to Jane Gibbons, is commanded to reconnoitre the Situation. Jane falls ill and Sharpe leaves his bride only very reluctantly. In the castle, he and his men realise, that they walked into a trap. French troups arrive and start a siege...

 
   
Production 1995, Greatbritain  
Running time app. 102 minutes  
Languages English (Original Language)
German		  
Original Airing TV UK ITV / 8. May 1996  
DVD

UK: Format: PAL - Region: 2
Sharpe's Regiment/Sharpe's Siege, (2 Discs Set), 2002
Sharpe, The Complete Series (15 Disc Box Set), 2005

USA: Format: NTSC - Region: 1
Sharpe's Siege, (1 Disc) 2001
Sharpe's Complete Collection (15 Disc Box Set), 2006

Germany: available, look here
     
   

Sharpe's Rifles
Sharpe's Eagle

Sharpe's Company
Sharpe's Enemy
Sharpe's Honour - Long Version

Sharpe's Gold - Long Version
Sharpe's Battle - Long Version
Sharpe's Sword - Long Version

Sharpe's Regiment
Sharpe's Siege
Sharpe's Mission

Sharpe's Revenge
Sharpe's Justice
Sharpe's Waterloo

Sharpe's Challenge
Sharpe's Peril

 
 
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