Sharpe's Fortress. In Dec 1803, at the army encampment near Deogaum, Sharpe is ambushed by Sergeant Obadaiah Hakeswill who strikes him twice on the head with the butt of a musket and he is kicked repeatedly resulting in a suspected cracked rib, a split lip and loose tooth. During the capture of Gawilghur on 15 Dec 1803, Sharpe is cut to the bone on his hip and whilst duelling on the fortress' wall, he receives sword cuts to his chest and right cheek by Colonel William Dodd - the cut to his cheek leaves a distinctive scar referred to often in the remaining books.
Sharpe's Gold. Sharpe inflicts a minor knife wound on his left forearm to provide blood for a ruse to force the Partisan leader Colonel Joaquin 'El Catolico' Jovellanos to allow Sharpe and his men across the river Agueda at the San Anton ford on 22 August 1810. A ricocheting French infantry musket ball wounds Sharpe's left armpit whilst he is evading capture enroute to Almeida on 23 August 1810. Whilst dueling with Jovellanos in Almeida on 26 August 1810, Sharpe is slashed on each side of his waist and is impaled in the right thigh by Jovellanos's rapier. Sharpe deliberately accepts the latter blow in order to disarm the superior swordsman, thus enabling Sharpe to kill him.
Sharpe's Escape. On 27 September 1810, the eve of the Battle of Busaco, Sharpe is beaten severely by Luis 'Ferragus' Ferreira, a Portuguese black marketeer, and two of his men near the monastery on the Bussaco ridge, suffering fractured ribs, lacerations to his right hand and face, suspected abdominal injuries and extensive severe bruising. These injuries are further exacerbated by Ferragus in a fist fight when Sharpe has his final show down with Ferragus in a farm house in front of the Lines of Torres Vedras, near the Allehandra river.
Sharpe's Fury. Shot in the temple by Colonel Henri Vandal, Commanding Officer of the French 8th of the Line, whilst evading capture at Admiral the Marquis de Cardenas estate on the River Guadiana in February 1811. Sustains minor injury to right hand whilst escaping from an ambush at Cadiz Cathedral led by Father Salvador Montseny.
Sharpe's Battle. During the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, 05 May 1811, he cuts the palm of his left hand on his sword and subsequently whilst dueling with Brigadier General Guy Loup, he is shot in the right shoulder by Doña Juanita de Elia, Spanish spy for the French and mistress of Brigadier Loup.
Sharpe's Company Sharpe receives a sword cut in the back from an unknown French Officer at Badajoz whilst protecting trench works from a French raid in March 1812. 28 March 1812 Sharpe is shot in the right thigh and the side by Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, using Private Patrick Harper's volley gun, whilst attempting to destroy the dam protecting Badajoz.
Sharpe's Sword On 17 Jun 1812, Sharpe receives skun knuckles from a stone chip thrown up by a musket ball whilst pursuing the escaping French spymaster, Colonel Philippe Leroux, outside Salamanca. In July 1812, Sharpe is shot, almost fatally, in the stomach by Colonel Philippe Leroux whilst the latter is trying to escape from the Irish College at Salamanca.
