In the early nineteenth century, the British Empire stretched from the English Channel to the Indian Ocean. One of the builders of this empire, a participant in all the wars waged at that time by England, was the shooter Sharpe. In the novel "The Tiger of Sharpe's Arrow", the hero participates in the siege of Seringapatam, the citadel in which Sultan Tipu, nicknamed the Tiger of Mysore, settled. In the novel “The Triumph of Sharpe’s Arrow”, the hero will face monstrous betrayal in the ranks of the British troops and will take part in the Battle of Assaya against the enemy, who has a huge numerical superiority. In the novel Sharpe's Arrow Fortress, the hero will be lured into a trap and sold to the Indians, who will prepare him for a terrible death. Many trials will fall to the share of a former London street boy who joined the army to escape from the hangman's noose. And his fate will be firmly intertwined with the fate of the Duke of Wellington, the future winner of Napoleon at Waterloo.