Dear Mr. Cornwell, Regarding the question from your reader on the 30th of May, he may be confusing the Sharpe Series with the Hervey Series (by Allan Mallinson), in which one of the last books (“Rumours of War”) leaves Hervey in 1826 as a prisoner of the Spanish after trying to fool them with Portuguese soldiers in red jackets pretending to be British Infantry. kind regards, Filipe Marques