Dear Bernard

The US Army Rifle Regiment during the War of 1812 used the Harpers Ferry Rifle (not as commonly assumed the Kentucky long Rifle) as opposed to the British using the Baker Rifle. I wonder how you felt they compared and which was the better ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpers_Ferry_Model_1803

Also have you ever heard of US Rifle Officer Benjamin Forsyth.?He seems a bit like Sharpe albiet without Sharpes code of ethics. Women and children were seen as fair game and unlike Sharpe he didn’t mind his men stealing from innocent people. Also unlike Sharpe he got beat and then killed. Though his men were devoted to him

Regards

Geraint

P.S you said it’s not the Pyrenees fighting for the next Sharpe so that leaves out Soauren, is it Burgos or St Pierre then ? . In Sharpes Siege he does say at the start he’d been fighting on the Nive so that would make sense on the other hand writing about Wellington’s 1 (therefore Sharpes too) big defeat in Spain must seem tempting