I’ve enjoyed reading your books, acquiring them piecemeal on my annual “cultural pilgrimages” to the UK. I first came across the Sharpe series as the TV series (in German) was broadcast on RTL2. Being ex-Royal signals, I noted in “Sharpe’s Enemy” a reference to the Chaplain General also being in charge of the Telegraph system. In fact, the Chaplain General, the Rev John Gamble, formerly a Mathematics don at Pembroke College, invented a “radiated telegraph” system and sold it to the Army in 1797. This was used by the Army instead of the Murray Telegraph adopted by the Admiralty in 1796 Just a little tidbit to add to your rather full unco-ordinated notebook! Roger Greenaway