Hi, All through the series, Richard Sharpe is involved in some amazing action, and yet never wins a medal. I know that he got badges for some actions – like going into the breach at Badajoz. Were badges the medal equivalent of the times? I know the VC wasn’t brought in till later on in the Nineteenth century, but what about other medals? If Sharpe had been fighting a hundred years later he would have had the VC several times over! Many thanks for the hours of pleasure your books (and the films) have given me, Neil