Dear Mr Cornwell,

in regards to your Sharpe books, from my knowledge it is set in a time period where it wasn’t uncommon for officers of one country to have been born in a different country than where they serve.

The most egregious example is Napoleon himself, he is a Corsican, who up until the was 12 was part of Italy, so we have an Italian, who becomes leader of France to plunder Italy.

My question would be if Sharpe had somehow ended in the french army, what kind of career he would have had there?

R.M.Solea