Dear Bernard, After reading the excellent descriptive quality of Naval battles and time that you had written in Sharpe’s Trafalgar I was wondering since the Napoleonic naval wars have been rather well covered by the likes of Forster and O’brien among others if you had ever thought about writing about any of the Dutch Wars in the 1600’s or of the period after the Restoration. It seems an important period on what bought in British dommiance of the waves. Your sincerely, Tony. P.S Have you read Barry Gough’s work on the Naval war between Britain and the US in the war of 1812 on Lake Huron and Georgia Bay? if not I can recommend it as a great read.