Bernard I am currently half way through reading Mark Urban’s ‘Rifles’ book detailing their exploits during the Peninsular wars, I’m sure you’ve heard of it if not read it. Anyway while reading the account of the Busaco battle yesterday a question came to mind on the account you gave in ‘Sharpe’s Escape’ – Why did you have Sharpe fighting with Picton’s division and not with the 95th, as I thought this was his actual regiment? I know it was mentioned in the book he had stayed in the regiment he was with as he was the acting major (or whatever rank he had). Did this just fit better with your story to keep him out of the 95th? Just curious as to why you kept him out of the Rifles? As from the sounds of the actions they took part in, many of these seem as if they would suit a Sharpe story. Do you plan to have Sharpe back with the 95th for the rest of the Peninsular war, that is of course. if the next Sharpe book is still going to focus on this area. Simon