Teresa Moreno

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Teresa Moreno (d.1812) is a fictional character in the novels of Bernard Cornwell. She is a Spanish Partisan and first wife of Richard Sharpe.

Teresa Moreno is the daughter of wealthy Spanish border landowner and one time partisan Cesar Moreno. When she first appears in the Sharpe books, it is in the aftermath of a French attack on her village of Castajada, in which her brother Ramon has been tortured and she was raped. This along with her mother's rape and murder leads her to become a partisan. In Sharpe's Gold when she is first introduced she is engaged to another partisan, El Catolico, but she soon falls in love with Sharpe. She and Sharpe have a child, Antoinia and get married, not however before Teresa has become the object of Sergeant Hakeswill's desires. By Christmas 1812 she is involved in the Battle of Adrados leading Spanish light infantry to the valley. She is here shot dead by Hakeswill who is escaping from his captors to the French. Sharpe is distraught by her death. She was known by the nickname "La Aguja"; literally, "The needle". After her death Antoinia is adopted by Ramon Moreno and his wife.

In the TV adaptations, she was portrayed by Assumpta Serna.