h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just to make things fun the newest book in the series is released today, Sharpe's Escape. It sits just after Sharpe's Gold.
Someday I'll get round to finishing the other synopses.

Tenaka

*pokes Verc with a stick*

Want me to finish my bits, and do you wanna update the stuff I had added?

If you don't mind yeah. In a few weeks I should have a bit more time available so I'll try and add something then.

By the way, I thought I'd put most of your stuff up.

What haven't I put up already?

I dunno, is the bit about Lucille up?

Is there more than one reference to Lucille?

Oh wait, I never got round to posting it here... I must have lost it when I changed PC's then. Damn.

I'll look forward to reading it then

Well, I've finally pulled my finger out:

Teresa Moreno

Nicknamed ‘La Aguja’ Portugese for ‘the Needle’<\footnote>, Teresa was a guerilla leader around the city of Badajoz. She originally meets Sharpe in the events of Sharpe’s Gold and falls in love with the young officer. By Sharpe’s Company, she is resident in the besieged fortress, along with her daughter Antonia Sharpe, first of Richard’s three offspring, and is attacked by the deserting Hakeswill before being saved by the timely intervention of Sharpe and Sergeant Harper. After the siege she married Sharpe, before heading off to harass the French once more.
She comes into the series for a third and final time in the events of Sharpe’s Enemy where she is murdered by a mercenary by the name of Obidiah Hakeswill in the town of Arados.
After Teresa’s death, Antonia is handed over to her mother’s family in Portugal, and is raised as an orphan, never seeing her father again.

Lucille Castineau (nee Lassan)

The daughter of French aristocrats in Normandy and the widow of Colonel Xavier Castineau (he’s down as Lassan in the entry, shouldn’t be. Sorry!), Lucille’s full title Which Sharpe is more proud of than her is Madame la Vicomtessa de Seleglise, although by her own admission ‘nearly every pig farmer in Normandy has a grand title’. Her first meeting with Sharpe during the events of Sharpe’s Revenge led to her shooting our hero with a Horse Pistol, blowing off the top of his ear and seriously damaging his shoulder. However when the two ended up alone in the Chateau Castineau after her rejection of Captain William Fredrickson’s affections, she became Sharpe’s mistress and fell pregnant with his illigitimate son Patrick LassanNamed after Patrick Harper and given his mother’s maiden name as a surname..
After Waterloo, she and Sharpe settled down in Normandy and by the events of Sharpe’s Devil the two had a daughter, Dominique. She became the third Mrs Sharpe in 1844 after the death of Jane Gibbons and according to Cornwell, the two lived happily ever after.

Sir Arthur Wellsley (Lord Wellington)

The Peer, as he was known, has been described as Britain’s greatest ever professional soldier. His reputation, much like Sharpe’s, was forged in the heat of India where he became the famous ‘Sepoy General’ He then went on to command the British forces in the Penninsular War, and then again at Waterloo, and was never once defeated in his career. After retiring from the military at the rank of Commander in Chief he became Prime-Minister of Great Britain before retiring from public life in 1846. Since his death in 1852, Wellington has lain in St Paul’s Cathedral, as befits one of the worlds greatest military heroes.

Which leaves you (Verc) to do Simmerson, the Chosen Men and Jane Gibbons. Want me to get cracking on the afterword as well? Also, do we need a bit about Napoleon in the enemies section?

El bumpo.

C'mon Verc, you've finished that dissertation, let's get cracking on this!!

*jumps up and down and waves arms frantically*

Hi guys, is there any more I need to do, I've sort of lost track and also time, and haven't been on much.
Let me know

Tenaka ;=)

Erm, not sure...

Ahh, brief rundown of each book wasn't it?

I'm not sure about the copyright, but in the Foreword to Sharpe's Devil I've found what I think would make the perfect ending to this entry:

Bernard Cornwell on Sharpe:
"Sharpe though is settled in Normandy. I suspect he has had enough excitement for one life, and I like to think he dies of old age in his chosen exile. There were many like him, old soldiers and sailors who carried their memories of Waterloo and Trafalgar, Salamanca and Badajoz into the Victorian age, where, unseen by us, Sharpe must fade away."

*prods Verc*

*Jumps up and down shouting*

VERC!!!!

TENAKA!!!!

ANYONE!!!

Right Psycorp, I hope you're online. You've got me till about 12:30 maybe 01:00. Lets see if we can finish this before I change my name again eh?

I've added the end of the entry you suggested, at the bottom.

Right, what d'you need?

Just look at the entry and tell me what I need to do to it. I've started writing about the riflemen. I'm going to see if I can wrap this up before it takes up any more of my time.

"At the double!"