Dear Mr Cornwell, thank you for your answer. I live in Co Fermanagh in Norther Ireland, and in our county regiment was the 27th Inniskillings (now part of the Royal Irish Regiment), I was just wandering if it would be possible for them to be included in a Sharpe Novel? Well done with Rebel, Bird and Falconer were great characters. Mickey O’Donohoe P.S I was wandering if Donaju from Sharpe’s battle was a variation on my surname (of which there are 90 variations Donahue O’Donague and so on) after all he was in an Irish company, are there still Irish regiments in the Spanish army?