Dear Bernard Cornwell, Many thanks for your Sharpe books. I have enjoyed reading them. I have read your page about unsolicited mail but I thought this might interest you. I grew up as a young boy in a village in Wales called Llawryglyn. In this village was born a John Manuel who when he died was the last survivor of Waterloo. He joined the “Cameronians” in 1798 and served in Spain where he was captured and imprisoned.When Napoleon abdicated ,was freed in time to come back to England and be at Waterloo. An illiterate Welsh speaker came back to his Welsh village,speaking and writing, Welsh,English,French,Spanish and Portuguese. If you are interested I can send you more details. Also the house I lived in was the birthplace of Edward Evans,one of three men who escaped Isandlwana and rode up to Rorke’s Drift with the news of the massacre. Roger Manning