This may give you a moment of amusement, a gravestone in Chester of one Thomas Gould, who was with the 52nd at Waterloo and seems to have been (almost) everywhere that Sharpe had been: http://www.chesterwiki.com/Chester_Castle#The_Combermere_statue_of_1865_and_Tom_Goulds_grave. You’ll guess from the rest of the site that I am a fan of the periods that you write about (and yes, I have most of your books) – except my counter-factual “Arthur” candidate comes a little later in history: http://www.chesterwiki.com/Arthur_Counter-factual . Best Wishes Peter Elliott