My wife and I have been devouring your books for years. Our many thanks. Your Sharpe work has caused me to read more widely in the years following the start of the French Revolution and I was struck by the fact that so many historians have theorized about the poisoning of Napolean at St. Helena, but no such hypothesis that theYounger Pitt was similarly finished off. Do you have any views about his demise? I have trouble believing that the news of Austerlitz could kill anyone. Donald Gaffney