Dear Bernard, If you could spare a moment to help me with a couple of questions i would like answered, i would be very grateful. Firstly knowing the South Essex are a fictional regiment. What divisions did you attach them too during their time under Wellesley /Wellingtons campaign of the Peninsular?? this is to help me in my holiday preparations of Spain and Portugal. Secondly i have just reread the Sharpe novels pertaining to that campaign and in my haste i forgot to write down where Sharpe travelled. i have used Brians time line as a reference, but he really only mentions the major engagements and not the smaller villages and towns Sharpe inevitably ends up being in or travelling through. can you help or point me in the general direction. again thanks,and thanks for the tip previously given about Julian Paget’s excellent book. i have it and am loving it. Steve Fleet