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Richard Sharpe was fed up. The army decided
when he woke up, when he slept, when he ate, when he marched,
and when he was to sit about doing nothing, and that was what
he did most of the time, nothing. Hurry up and do nothing, that
was the army's way of doing things, and he was fed up with it.
He was bored and thinking of running. But half the natives where
in British pay, and would turn you in - and the other Indians
were all fighting against the British, and if he ran into them
he would be forced to serve in their armies. So Sharpe kept on
marching with the rest of the 33rd, heading for battle with the
tiger troops of Mysore, the warriors of the Tipoo Sultan who
was intent on driving the British from his land. |
