Peter Tsouras, a former U.S. Army officer and military historian has begun to write an alternate-history trilogy of novels entitled “Brittania’s Fist” about a British intervention in the U.S. Civil War in 1863 that leads to a global war. The story is largely told through the characters of two genuine historical figures, the English officer Garnet Wolseley (well known to you, of course) and George Sharpe, one of the officers most responsible for the Union intelligence service during the War for Southern Independence. On page 43 of the first book in the trilogy, “Brittania’s Fist” George Sharpe and Wolseley meet by chance in a Washington restaurant and share a meal. Wolseley asks the American officer if he knows “Col. Richard Sharpe of the 95th Rifles” a favorite of Wellington who was responsible for killing many Frenchmen. I wonder, did Tsouras ask your permission to make this obviously admiring reference or does it come as a complete surprise to you?
Jim Dickey