Dear Bernard Cornwell, I rather enjoy your books, especially the India ones and best fo all, the Warlord Chronicles, but I noticed there’s a slight confusion in some questions here about the “Over the Hills” song. That in the Beggar’s Opera is a totaly different one using the same air. You are thinking of the “Flanders, Portugal and Spain” refrain, which is from George Farquhar’s Recruiting Officer, performed 1706. Written from his own experiences. It has Queen Anne and not King George, since it was during the Spanish War of Succession. Marlborough may have conducted the more famous campaigns, but there were some incredibly inept operations in the Peninsula. Thank you for your patience, Allen