Dear Mister Cornwell, I recently discovered your Sharpe books, and I have read 10 or 11 of them, and I must say I have never read a better account of a battle. I recently read Rebel, but found it hard to relate to charcters that kept slaves, but it was still a great book. I was wondering if you would happen to know anything about American tactics in the war of 1812? Did they use collumns of lines? What sort of cavalry did they have, etc? I would be much obliged, and Keep up the good work, Mickey O’Donohoe (pronounced oh-do-ah-hue, you probably knew this but a lot of people don’t, so I am just making sure)