Hello Mr. Cornwell. In a December 9 posting, a fan asked you if you planned to have Sharpe fight the battle of Albuera in a future novel. You expressed some uncertainty because of the tightness of the time frame. I agree it is tight, but for all that, completely doable. Albuera took place on May 16th, 1811, eleven days after the end of “Sharpe’s Battle.” I looked at my Atlas, and found that Albuera is about 120 almost due south from Fuentes d’Onoro. The countryside looks easy to march through. I don’t have to remind you, this is Sharpe we’re talking about, and he could get up off his deathbed and march 120 miles in eleven days. I figure he, the Chosen Men, and the South Essex (sent south by Wellington to reinforce General Beresford), could make it in six day of hard or nine days of easy marching. Either way, they’d be there in time for the battle with a few days for plot development, which probably would have been forming anyway even without Sharpe. You simply mustn’t keep Sharpe away from this fight! For a title, how about “Sharpe’s Inferno.” Alan Kempner