I don’t know if you have been informed but I have noticed that Rifleman Pendleton is a reincarnation as he was killed in Sharpes Eagle in 1809 during the Talavera Campaign but was alive and well in Sharpes Escape in 1811 during the Bussaco Campaign. As I have all 20 of the Sharpes books and am in the process rereading them at the moment that was when I noticed this. John Constable