I’m a devoted Sharpe fan and could bore you and everyone else with reams of heartfelt praise, but I would rather cut to the questions, so: 1. I’ve been browsing the “Your Questions” pages hoping to find out something about the fate of Capt. Frederickson, and was very disappointed to see your response to the one “Sweet William” question posted on the site. It was very devastating to me the way he dropped out of site with no mention of him by any character in the subsequent books. Please, save me from this haunting image of him lying on a bed in a dark room sucking death from an opium pipe … 2. On another forum there was a discussion of your stories in which one of the participants disputed your “contention” that the French referred to the British as “Goddams”, due to the frequency with which the British soldiers seemed to use that term. He insisted instead that the nickname they actually used was “Godins”. He spoke so authoritativley that I had to wonder if there was somehting to this. I’ve done a little internet research without coming up with anything besides this wikipedia entry –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_goddams. Could you shed some light? Bob Barrows