Dear Mr. Cornwell,
With great pleasure I have read many of your novels, e.g. the Sharpe series and the stories of Uhtred. Thes offered many plesant hours of reading.
Recently I have read your account of the battle of Waterloo. In this context, I noticed that you wrote Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Oels, the “Schwarze Herzog”, died by a shot through his head at Les Quatre Bras. He died in the batttle of Quattre Bras, this is correct. The cause of death was not a shot through the head though. He was shot through his hand, lung, and liver.
In the Heimatmuseum in Braunschweig the blouse he was wearing on 16 June 1815 at Les Quatre Bras is displayed. You can see the whole of the deadly bullet there.
I have lived in Braunschweig for six years and developed some interest in its history. Maybe this is why I stumbled over this sentence in your book. By the way, Braunschweig offers a lot of historical monuments and documents of this era.
Congratulations to your work!
Kind regards,
Uwe Dengler