Re Starbuck

Sharpe was in and out of so many ladies beds that it's highly likely. The timing is a bit off though, more likely grandchildren.

He has a daughter with his first wife Teresa, who is brought up in Spain when she's killed, and I daresay he had a child or two with Lucille, the French lady he ended up with in 'Sharpe's Siege'.   The only woman we can safely say he couldn't have had a child with, was his wife Jane. She got pregnant to her lover Lord Rossendale.

LTS who really ought to start reading something else!