Sharpe's Waterloo (TV programme)

Sharpe's Waterloo
Written by	Charles Wood Bernard Cornwell (characters)
Directed by	Tom Clegg
Starring	Sean Bean Daragh O'Malley Abigail Cruttenden Hugh Fraser Cecile Paoli Oliver Tobias Paul Bettany Alexis Denisof Neil Dickson
Theme music composer	Dominic Muldowney John Tams
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Malcolm Craddock Muir Sutherland (exec.)
Running time	100 min.
Release
Original release	1997
Chronology
Preceded by	Sharpe's Justice
Followed by	Sharpe's Challenge

Sharpe's Waterloo is a British television drama, the 14th and final part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.

In 1815, war breaks out once more as Napoleon returns to France from exile on Elba. Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean) cannot resist the chance to finally see his enemy and breaks his promise to his French lover Lucille (Cécile Paoli) to fight no more. However, unlike his adulterous wife Jane (Abigail Cruttenden), she forgives him and accompanies him to the battlefield, where he finds employment as a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Prince William of Orange (Paul Bettany) and makes the acquaintance of his aide de camp Colonel Rebecque (Oliver Tobias).

Sharpe then scouts far south of Quatre Bras. He spots French troops and sends a Dutch cavalryman on patrol to alert the Allied command. However, the cavalryman and his patrol are attacked and killed by French cuirassiers (who were pursuing Sharpe).

Meanwhile, Lord Rossendale (Alexis Denisof) has joined the staff of Lord Uxbridge (Neil Dickson), Wellington's second-in-command, and has brought his lover, Sharpe's estranged wife Jane, with him to Brussels, but they find that not only will polite society refuse to accept or even acknowledge Jane but also that Sharpe is also in Brussels and close by.

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