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Название книги: Sharpe's Enemy
Автор(ы): Bernard Cornwell
Жанр: Исторические приключения
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Sharpe_s-Enemy-197907.html
PROLOGUE
On December 8th, 1812, the English soldiers first came to Adrados.
The village had escaped the war. It lay in that part of Spain east of the northern Portuguese border and, though it was close to the frontier, few soldiers had passed through its single street.
The French had come once, three years before, but they had been running from the English Lord Wellington and running so fast that they scarcely had time to stop and loot.
Then in May of 1812 the Spanish soldiers had come, the Garrison of Adrados, but the villagers had not minded. There were only fifty soldiers, with four cannon, and once the guns had been placed in the old Castle and Watchtower outside the village the soldiers seemed to think their war was done. They drank in the village inn, flirted with the women at the stream where the flat stones made laundry easy, and two village girls married gunners in the summer. By some confusion in the Spanish Army the 'garrison' had been sent a powder co
Название книги: Sharpe's Enemy
Автор(ы): Bernard Cornwell
Жанр: Исторические приключения
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Sharpe_s-Enemy-197907.html
PROLOGUE
On December 8th, 1812, the English soldiers first came to Adrados.
The village had escaped the war. It lay in that part of Spain east of the northern Portuguese border and, though it was close to the frontier, few soldiers had passed through its single street.
The French had come once, three years before, but they had been running from the English Lord Wellington and running so fast that they scarcely had time to stop and loot.
Then in May of 1812 the Spanish soldiers had come, the Garrison of Adrados, but the villagers had not minded. There were only fifty soldiers, with four cannon, and once the guns had been placed in the old Castle and Watchtower outside the village the soldiers seemed to think their war was done. They drank in the village inn, flirted with the women at the stream where the flat stones made laundry easy, and two village girls married gunners in the summer. By some confusion in the Spanish Army the 'garrison' had been sent a powder co
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