In your last book of the Sharpe series, Sharpe’s Devil, a young British Lieutenant asks Sharpe if he remembers his father, Captain Roland Hardacre. Captain Hardacre was with Sharpe at the same time in Salamanca and later died at San Sebastian. It was not clear if Sharpe was at San Sebastian or somewhere else at the time. My wife and I are just back from Pamplona where we ran with the bulls then spent a week in San Sebastian. It is the jewel of the Bahia di La Concha and Parte Vieja was a great spot to stay. It is hard to believe the city was razed and only a few houses, two they say, were left standing in 1813. Apparently Sharpe was busy at the Vitoria Campaign and the Invasion of France in 1813…..?
Henry Restarick