I just wanted to thankyou. As a teenager who struggled to read I made the best purchase of my life a Sharpe book! I have read every single one and have the early editions still. I went from a lad who wouldn’t read to a teenager told off for not going to sleep because I wanted to turn the next page of the latest Sharpe encounter. This I truly believe gave me a stepping stone that led me to go to University and achieve a degree which everybody said was beyond me. You have given me an inexhaustible appetite for military history and in particular the PENINSULAR WAR. I have bought a letter written by the Iron Duke on the 21st July in 1811. One day I would like to be able to purchase a 1796 heavy Cavalry sword in true Sharpe fashion. Now at the age of 37 and happily married I am looking forward to seeing the great battle field sights. I hope you will one day write about the wars of 1812 and 1814 in America and Canada and remind the Americans of why the white house is called the white house! I recently visited the Queens Lancs Regt barracks museum in preston. There I saw my first Eagle.The British took two Eagles at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812. Ensign John Pratt of the Light Company of the 30th Foot(later 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment) captured the Eagle of 22nd Regiment de Ligneis the one I viewed, What I stomach churner! I am looking forward to buying your latest installment, the fort and understanding the unbiased non pro American truth of a forgotten war. This is timed superbly after I have just finished Mark Urbans the Fusilers set in the same period. Please remember to visit the Northwest as I would like to be at your next booksigning. All the Best Scott