Anybody a fan of Bernard Cornwell's Napoleonic-era SHARPE series ? The chronologically last-written book, which came out in the mid 1990s, was set in 1821, SHARPE'S DEVIL, and is all about the mad Scottish adm Lord Cochran attempting to rescue Napoleon from St Helena in order to transport him to South America to lead the independence forces to victory in their struggle against the Spanish, and create a grand empire of the US of South America. Richard Sharpe and his longtime companion Patrick Harper, long retired from the battlefield, become involved when they end up in Chile attempting to track down Don Blas Vivar, a Spanish nobleman officer and old comrade from Spain (back in SHARPE'S RIFLES, during 1809). Cochrane's plan of course came to naught due to Bonaparte's death, but Cornwell in his Hist Note speculates on what might've been had the mad Scotsman's plan actually succeeded.