Dear Bernard

You have mentioned writing another Sharpe novel in the future. I wondered if you had ever thought of writing about his first battles in the Flanders campaign. Not just at Boxtel but at the hard fighting on the River Waal (where thanks to Wellington’s leadership the 33rd only lost 2 men) and on the River Ems. In his biography on Wellington, Roy Muir mentions that the retreat was as bad as Corunna but it’s more ignored.  Every one has to start somewhere and this was Sharpe’s start so I wondered if you would give it a go so to speak

Yours sincerely

Geraint

P.S  In Sharpes Havoc you wonder if Dulong survived. Apparently a certain Colonel Dulong was at the battle of Albuera,  where he went up against the Fusilier Brigade. Any chance he and Sharpe might meet again?