"...Although, it's quite difficult to explain that to the lads after a long seige."

All the pent up bloodlust. And just plain lust. Sharpe wasn't one for doling out punishment on the men, but behaving like an animal in a stormed town? Aye. That would earn a man all kind of trouble. It didn't matter whether they were British or French or Whatevere, Sharpe would deal with them as he would.

"Of course, they don't always see beyond the immediate plunder."