Age of Saild Despatches #74

[sharpiefan]

Note from the Editor: Oops. Got distracted yesterday packing, hence no Despatches. This is coming to you chez le_russe_satan. Hope you've all had a good week! Again, this is a short edition. Please keep your AoS posts coming!

Fanfic:
Sharpe's Marines, Interlude: Joking Apart by sharpiefan; Sharpe; U; Sharpe, original characters; What did Sharpe and the Marines of HMS Pucelle really make of each other?

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:
sharpiefan posts Why the War of 1812 Still Mattera
le_russe_satan posts The British Cabinet of the Peninsular War Period
From redcoatbob: So You've Never Seen a Weevil

Miscellany and meta:

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read will be reading Chapter Three of 21 this weekend

Rec of the Week:
On The Identification of Weeds by feroxargentea; Stephen Maturin, the Aubrey family; G; Takes place after The Mauritius Command, but supposing that that campaign went rather differently.

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