Hello Mr. Cornwell: Welcome back after what I am sure was a supremely deserved vacation. I want your opinion on a couple of things: Why, during the whole of the Napoleonic Wars, did the French never learn from their mistakes? After the columns were beaten by the lines a dozen or so times, you would think they would figure out that new tactics were called for. But from Rolica right through to Waterloo, they just came on “in the same old way.” Secondly, WERE there any tactics that would have worked against Wellington? Lastly, I really admired Major Dulong in Havoc, and I hope you’ll think of a way for him and Sharpe to meet up again in a future adventure. Sincerely, Alan Kempner