Hello Bernard….I inherited a copy of “The Life of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington” published soon after his death in 1853 so I take naturally to the “Sharpe” books and TV series. The Canadian “sideshow” to the Napoleonic wars was the War of l812 along the Niagara frontier and in Lower Canada as you know. In “New Brunswick, A History: 1784-1867”, W.S. MacNutt recounts how 550 rank and file of the 104th Regiment of the Line (New Brunswick Fencibles) marched 700 miles in 52 days in the winter of 1812-13 through the wilderness from Fredericton to Kingston. Perhaps Wellington could get the Royal Navy to send Sharpe and the “Chosen Men” to the New World to take on the Yankees some day! I hope to see you on May 7 in Vancouver. Cheers for now! Peter B. Clark