Hi Bernard, My granddaughter knows that I am interested in history and she told me that in her history class they were discussing the “Peterloo massacre” that took place in Manchester 16 Aug 1819. When I looked it up on the internet and read about the lead up to the massacre,and the massacre itself, it reminded me of the scene in Sharpe’s Justice where a peaceful demonstration was stopped by the local militia through killing men,women and children with their swords and tramping over them with their horse exactly the same way as they did at the Peterloo massacre. I was wondering if the writers of Sharpe’s Justice was influenced by the Peterloo Massacre.Have heard of that massacre Bernard? yours Rod Bassett