I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all of the Sharpe series as well as the Saxon stories with Uhtred, plus several of your other books such as Stonehenge, the Harlequin series, and The Fort. I recently finished reading The Fields of Death by Simon Scarrow, and was pleasantly surprised to see a reference to a major from the 95th Rifles named Richard, unusually for an officer carrying a rifle at the battle of Salamanca. Not sure if this was an intentional show of respect to your famous character but interesting all the same.
Jim M