I am a bit mystified by a notation on the Sharpe Appreciaion Society website where they speak of Richard Sharpe as an ‘ensign’…….I served in the US Navy and was commissioned as an ensign. I was not aware that the British Army used the rank ‘ensign’…..Am I to understand that the American colonies assumed that rank but only in terms of their Navy while it was common for the British to use it for all services? Rosalee