Popular Culture
Talavera is the setting for Sharpe's Eagle, the first book written in Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe" series, and is depicted in the conclusion of the film adaptation of the same name.
In 'A Magnum for Schneider,' the 1967 pilot for the British TV series Callan starring Edward Woodward, Callan and Schneider re-fight the Battle of Talavera as a war-game. The scene is replicated in Callan creator James Mitchell's 1969 novel 'Red File for Callan.'
Eugene O'Neill's play "A Touch of the Poet" takes place 19 years after the battle on the same day 27 July and plays a significant part for the story and its characters.
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