Hello Mr Cornwell, Just in the middle of reading Sharpe’s Waterloo (almost finished it) and just wanted to say how good it is. One of the best Sharpe books in my opinion – with Regiment being your best. Just one thing about the book – Ensign Christie who saved the colours while being hacked at by the french is said in your book to be a sixteen year old but when I typed his name into a search engine it said that he was recently promoted from Sergeant-Major. So I was wondering if you had used ‘poetic liscence’ when writing that part or whether the site he was mentioned on is wrong. Secondly, could you please describe how a battalion of marines was spread out on boats – for example where did the majors and Lieutenant-Colonels go if the Captain of the Marines was usually the senior marine on board a ship? Once again, thanks for the hours of pleasurable reading and I am really glad that I decided to pick up the Sharpe series. Lewis. P.S. Can’t wait for the next Alfred book.