Your books are fiction i know.. but when checked against the real events [of say Crecy or Azincourt] they stand up as being pretty well accurate. You don’t let yourself get too carried away with over exaggeration of what knights and kings might have done and said. That’s why I thought it was unlike you to be so inaccurate in your views on Bannockburn on p72 of Vagabond. where you claim that David believed ‘the flower of Scotland had ridden down the nobility of England.’ and that David wanted to do the same again. I’m sure you know that Bannockburn was won by Scottish foot soldiers in their schiltroms, not by any really decisive cavalry encounter.. the only riding down of the English nobility, if there was any, was when the battle was over and they were running away.. Then, the line earlier where you say ‘Robert the Bruce had beaten the English on horseback’.. is only true in a sense of the first day, when he had beaten de Bohun.

Andrew Hunt

Mr. Cornwell, Just want to say how much I have enjoyed the Sharpe series over the years. Having looked at your site I want to read Agincourt, the Authur Books and The Saxon Stories they sound very interesting. I have one comment Redcoat, as a British reenactor for the past 33 years and come up through the ranks that volume was ok, just some of the details were wrong, I believe is I recall correctly you mention stripes on a sergeant? Not in my research and study over the years was there every an mention of stripes used by either side from 1775 to 1783. There’s an end to it and my only criticism of the book. I would however like to invite you to a Revolutionary war reenactment as my guest in future if you have the time. I do not live far away from you in Chatham as I live in Middleborough Mass. You may contact me at my email address and should you ever need my services I am at your service. Your Servant Sir, Winston S. Stone Capt. & Lt. Col 1st Foot Guards ret. Aide de Camp H.M. 10th Regiment of Foot