Dear Mr Cornwell, I don’t know if anyone has ever brought up these points before, but I was wondering about a couple of continuity errors in the Sharpe novels. These are presumably because you wrote the original twelve novels (From Sharpe’s Eagle in 1981 to Sharpe’s Devil in 1992)focusing on The Peninsular War/Invasion of France/Waterloo sequence of events, and then later decided to go back in time and tell the story of Sharpe’s past……One has to do with Sharpe’s account of how he came to be flogged in India. The second continuity error is a discrepency between Sharpe’s Devil (1992) and Sharpe’s Trafalgar (2000)…. I enjoy the Sharpe series enormously, and found these discrepencies on re-reading the original novels after a gap of several years. Your prequel novels are here contradicting what has been established about Sharpe’s background and history. As a fan of your novels, I was wondering if you were aware of these contradictions and were ever planning to revise/re-edit the texts so as to clear them up? I think they are a marvelous series of novels anyway, perhaps I am just being pernickity about details. I very much look forward to the latest installment, Sharpe’s Fury! Thank you for yor time and I look forward to hearing from you. Yours truly, Tom Hill.