Sharpe's Miracles

  • When Sharpe's bullet wound brings on a fever in Honour, Helen miraculously restores full health to him with a hand clasp and a kiss.

  • Within hours after Wellesley's victory at Talavera, Josefina informs Sharpe that he's been made Lord Wellington. Conclusion: The boats between England and Spain must miraculously sail at the speed of light.

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  • When Sharpe has sex with Lass in Sword, it miraculously restores her power of speech.

  • General Wagon Master Runcimen was made Baron only one day after the Compania Real Irlandesa had proven itself against General Lupe, miraculously proving that the American newspapers recounting the British horrors against Irish citizenry did actually make it in a clipper across the Atlantic in a single day.

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  • When Sharpe is being beaten up by Ducos in Honour, he still limping from the bullet wound. But when he returns to Wellington a short time later, he's miraculously running across snowy landscapes and jumping off wagons without any sign of injury.

  • After being killed in Company while defending Teresa, Harry Price miraculously shows up alive and well in Waterloo.

  • Sergeant Harper has been shot only 3 times--in Enemy, Honour and Gold--and each time with only a scratch in the left shoulder, miraculously leaving his right arm healthy for more fighting.

  • Even though Hakeswell steals Sharpe's Wellington-inscribed telescope in Company, it miraculously shows up when Nairn gives it to Sharpe in Honour.

  • When Sharpe returns the green jackets to his men in Company, their white pants miraculously turn green as well.

  • Every single jacket that Sharpe owns (except for the dress uniform he wears in Regiment and Siege) miraculously has a hole in the left elbow. Even the leather jacket he wears in Honour!

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  • Uniform Miracle, Part Deux--Even though Sharpe has been injured in the right knee (Eagle), shot in the left thigh (Eagle), slashed across the left arm (Eagle), shot in the left leg (Company), shot in the right thigh (Honour), slashed across the stomach (Honour), stabbed in the right arm (Gold), shot in the left arm (Battle), slashed in the left shoulder (Sword), shot in the belly (Sword), nail-shot in the right leg (Revenge), and stabbed in the left arm (Justice), miraculously the only hole in Sharpe's uniform is in the left elbow, which was already there when he first acquired it (Rifles).

  • As soon as Sharpe suggests to Teresa that maybe they should get married, she miraculously becomes his wife without benefit of a ceremony.

  • The morning after Lt. Berry shoots him in the leg on night patrol, Sharpe runs off to capture the eagle without a limp.

  • When Sharpe reports to Wellington that the breach at Badajoz is practicable, he's limping as a result of Hakeswell's volley-gun shot. But when he storms the breach that night, he miraculously climbs up the steep slope, stepping over dead bodies and through pools of blood without any limp at all.

  • Sharpe leaves the eagle that he captured at Talavera at Major Lennox's gravesite. But in Regiment it miraculously shows up in London when the Prince Regent presents it to Sharpe.

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by Judy

~ Sharpe's Sexual Miracles ~

  • In Gold [The Book] Sharpe is shot in the shoulder and nearly bleeds to death. After having the wound cauterised and being taken to safety he is miraculously still able to have sex with Theresa after bribing her with the promise of a rifle.

  • In Sword [The Film] Sharpe is shot in the side and left to die in a dying room. After being found by Harper he is taken to Lass [The Nun] who removes the bullet and sews him up. Miraculously, the next morning he is up again [on his feet!] and thanks Lass by having sex with her thereby also restoring her powers of speech.

by Jenny Jones