hi Bernard, just finally finished reading all the Sharpe novels,all I can say is fantastic. Being in the armed forces myself I really find it interesting seeing what life was like for my predecessors, as believe it or not even in the army we don’t really delve much into our history apart from ww1 or ww2 but I find it quite sad that we have no official remembrance for the end of the peninsula wars. After reading your books and watching the tv series I read up on various other sources e.g Wellington years by Elizabeth Longford and Mark Urban’s The Rifles,Which led me to search into my own family history and found I had a great,great,great grandfather who died near Corruna although that’s as much as I can find out. But had it not been for the Sharpe books I dare say I would never of even been interested in the days of the musket. so thanks again. p.s I know you don’t take Sharpe ideas but I always thought it would have been a nice ending if it ended with Sharpe being knighted hence going full circle and I can see Wellington calling out hurrah or something like that… oh well thanks again, Jason.