I am on the second reading of your “Sharpe” series, but as I was comencing “Sharpe’s Battle” I found a blank space with LTC Lawford and Lieutnant Cornelius Slingsby. I know that Slingsby was a drunk, but I could not decided what happened to him and where did LTC Lawford go. Later I know he lost an arm and went back to England, but where did he go here? Is there a time between the two books? There must be. Henry Boschen