Dear Bernard, I have written to you before once or twice (i know i asked whet you thought Sharpe would think of Flashman…can’t remember what you wrote back, would love to know!!) but mainly i wanted to know something about the end of Sharpe’s Havoc. The battle at the end of the Oporto campaign, where Wellington hedged Soult’s rearguard up against the river was known as the battle / clash at Salamonde. I know this was a minor skirmish, but details on the action are very scarce, in fact, your description was better than any others i have read. Where did you get the information from? Do you know if there are any maps of the action at all? Or what the casualties were? Ricky Phillips