Sharpe Finds New Recruits In Disarray | Sharpe's Regiment | Sharpe
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- The First Battalion of the South Essex Regiment has suffered terrible losses in the fighting in Spain, and Sharpe is sent to England to find replacements. Upon his arrival, he learns that there may be a problem with recruitment.
Do you know where his investigation will lead?
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From Season 4 Episode 1 "Sharpe's Regiment": Sharpe and Harper return to England to recruit for the South Essex regiment and discover corruption in the highest ranks of the British army. Reporting their findings only makes them targets in an assassination attempt, so to prove their allegations they fake their own deaths and re-enlist in South Essex.
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Follow Sharpe, a fictional British Soldier as he fights during the Napoleonic Wars! Sharpe is a British period drama series starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, and Daragh O'Malley as his second in command, Patrick Harper.
Throughout the series, Sharpe gradually gets promoted through the ranks but makes a number of dangerous enemies along the way. Eventually, his success gains him a steady promotion, and by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he becomes Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe!
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Sharpe's major flaw throughout the entire series was never having a cousin at Horse Guards.
From what I've seen of Sharpe, a cousin at Horse Guards would mean another Sharpe running around doing his thing, and if the lady of the week, French army and incompetent British offices can't handle one Sharpe.......
He eventually does have friends at court though, namely the Prince Regent.
To quote Sharpe’s Enemy when he’s promoted - “PRINCE REGENT??!!”
I like that Sir, good observation Sir, forward thinking Sir!
With his background , it wouldn't be much good
I immediately engaged the young maidens in a game of blind man’s bluff… That’s my style sir
lmfao! simmerson would be proud....
And Major Lennox will answer, sir.
@@TheGentlemanGamer MAJOR LENNOX ANSWERED WITH HIS WIFE, SIR!
@@djackmanson To be led by the newly gazetted Colonel Girdwood, sir?
@@TheGentlemanGamer To be led by the newly gazette Colonel Sharpe, sir.
The most terrifying thing an NCO can yell at a subordinate: "Hey! You!"
If you look carefully you can see the exact moment that drummer craps him self in fear.
And the worst thing you can do is try to run away from an NCO after he calls you.
@@joec9693 You'd think they'd know to never make a sergeant-major run if they valued life, but I guess as a means of suicide... no wait, its still a terrible idea even then.
Never run from the RSM. Because when he catches you, and he WILL catch you, he will be just as angry. But he will also have had time to think about what he will do to you WHEN he catches you!
@@tanall5959 I am fairly certain that with each step they need to catch you they are adding on another creative penalty for you to suffer as well.
Having a sergeant-Major run towards you is a very good reason to start running.
Only if you want to die tired
Sharpe could save himself a lot of agro if he'd actually wear the uniform of a major in the South Essex. But he's got standards, Sharpe has.
But then he wouldn't get the satisfaction of seeing the looks on their faces when they realize he outranks them, and is a war hero.
@@joec9693 actually a good way to catch lower ranking officers slacking.
right'o!
@@wakcedout Thats soldiering
@@wakcedout yeah, the original "undercover boss"
At 3:51, the famous foot is back! He left his leg at Talavera he says, but all he needs to do is look behind him. Growing back an amputated appendage, that's soldiering!
Misunderstanding one of the many English accents, now that's soldiering.
@@sigmasquadleader I mean its obvious he has a fake leg as you can hear him knocking on wood when he mentions leaving it behind
all the times i watched that and never noticed the foot
lucky rabbit's foot growing out his arse
Keen eye. I have probably seen this scene a dozen times. Never spotted that before.
"We haven't had a new lad in six months!" that told him everything....
That’s good because I completely lose him around the 4:50 mark.
The ‘Oh Sh*t’ expression on his face is perfect.
Perfect. It's actually priceless.
It gives the impression not only is he scared cuz a superior officer is disappointed in him & he's insulted the man but he looks up to said superior officer
The Fort shown here is actually Tilbury Fort for anyone that's interested.
Tilbury or Coalhouse for some of the shots ?
@@highpath4776 the entrance is Tilbury, and I believe the court is as well. But its been four years now
@@Fyrdman Did look like tilbury for that bit, but the marshland training ground looked a bit east.
@@highpath4776 yeah. idk where the marshland is filmed, but in the book, the camp is supposed to be in this marshland in south-east essex. ive looked it up and it does resemble it a lot. though tbh, south esex in general is bog
edit: Foulness Island is where the training camp is supposed to be in book
Dont start giving me travel ideas now.
Visiting old sharpe filming sites, now thats traveling.
Sharpe telling officers what to do is what I live for
Growing a new leg at 3:51? Now that's soldiering.
Nah, he drew (withdrew from stores) a lacquery (wooden) one.
@@iainhewitt you can actually see the real one behind his leg
"Get a shift on man!"
*Smacks head like an 80's teacher dealing with a lazy child*
Remember when Sharpe got his first squad of a bunch of lazing around rifle men? Good times.
2:20 I like how he stops yelling when he sees the old man.
You can see Harper thinking 'Oh fer feck's sake!'
Wanting to show respect to the elderly whilst wishing he'd be in a coffin off to Heaven already.
Damn. I had forgotten just how good this series is. Watched it back in the day. Gave me chills. CHILLS. :D
Go and see the doctor
@@engasal I did. He gave me a shot of brandy with ground gun powder, and a bit of bleeding. Fixed me right up he did, and no mistake!
@@MarkOfArgyll You saw a charlatan, only cure for chills is paraffin oil and best brown paper.
Finally, Sean finds out what color the boathouse at Hereford is….
I'd have thought he'd be too busy designing disastrous ambushes
@@IrishCarney with cups of coffee
Give him credit, it's probably one of the few, if not the only movie where Sean Bean _doesn't die._ Plus it's got Robert DeNiro and Jean Reno, so that's a bonus.
@@michaelscott6022 only 2 I can think of are Sharpe and Bravo 2 Zero.
@@AnikaJarlsdottr The Martian, Jupiter Ascending, Flight Plan… 😉👍🏻
"where I left me leg and drew a lacquery one" - ahhh that's dialogue
Taking the French eagle at Talavera, now that's soldiering!
I immediately took the eagle at Talavera, as that’s my style sir
It's never a good idea to run away from a rsm
Run where. They always pop up from the route of retreat.
@@weaselman24 and where would you go? The base is only so big and can only hide so long.
@@chrismc410 They'll grab someone else if it's easier.
@@RBAWintrow or smoke or beast the whole unit except you and then the unit takes care of it. You have to sleep sometime
I was pulled in for a works disciplinary yesterday . I told them I had a cousin at Horse Guard and friends at court !
… now thats soldiering
Feeding wrong information to the enemy. Now that Soldiering!
I see a new Sharpe video and so I click on it, That's my style sir!!
Did any videos distinguish themselves?
Major Lennox will answer, sir.
@@someguy5948 "The Aztecs led the watchlist, sir. You may say that it is tied to me by nostalgia. But is it a tie of nostalgia to tie my tongue and rob a brave video of its just reward? No sir! I recommend the Aztecs be gazetted 'BAFTA-worthy', sir."
That's soldiering.
this was one of my favorite episodes. it brought back my army days lol.
Afghan government furiously took notes while watching this episode.
Haha facts
Afghan government, South Vietnam's government... Any government the US has propped up over the decades for its own interests and then abandoned.
? Do you mean OUR Afghan government thst we bought and paid for over the course of 20 years?? The one thst OUR military was always giving positive reports in? PM
@@DomWeasel How long were supposed to prop them up for?
@National Socialism Afghans have never liked occupiers
I lived there in 76/77
Running from a rsm, especially one who is Irish sounds like an automatic ass chewing sentence
Walking all the way to Mordor, now that’s soldiering!
Tbf, he barely made it past the mines of moria.
One simply can't walk all the way to France
Lmao the look on the mans face when Sharpe tells him who he is.
That Captain should've known he'd stepped in it by Sharpe's tone when he first addressed him.
Just the way Sharpe walked up to him should have told him. Sharpe walks with authority and easy confidence. Not somebody to be ordered around by just anybody.
When Major Sharp yells,you know it's going to hit the fan.
Captain Carline shaped up after this and won a Bronze Star at Brecourt Manor
Who did he play in BoB?
@@chrismarcellus6933 Pettey. He was in the first three episodes.
@@sdwhamilton "Christ, they must think he's a medic or something!"
The incredible rare crossover of "Sharpe" with "F-Troop"
If I was in Sharpe's position, I would have made the officer playing games with the ladies clean the latrines for as long as I feel like it. Then give the guy with the fake leg an on the spot promotion. That guy was more of an officer than the captain.
Considering he served under Sharpe in a legendary battle.....
Elizabeth Hurley was really great in this series.
She was Lady Farthingdale in Sharpe's Enemy. This is Sharpe's *Regiment,* 2 whole seasons ahead, I believe.
Many here respected her skills, both of them.
@@TheCormTube yes! Her performance stirred within me a great outpouring of respect.
I've just started watching this series lately and I absolutely love it. I really wish I'd seen these as a young man, I think this is really good content for younger men.
'Finds new recruits in disarray' implies he found them AT ALL.
Chasing harlots and leaving no guards at the gate?
Now that's soldiering!
3:51 Perhaps someone should tell him he's still got his left leg, it's behind him ;)
I wonder about how that coach got back across the bridge after Sharpe & Harper got out. Too narrow to turn around and the gate is too small for the coach to go through and turn around in the courtyard. Must've been fun backing up. Oh, and Ted's foot at 3:50 🤣
The coach is still there.
I like the way those eleven men lined up. That's soldiering.
boromir's new career as a major was not without it's challenges
2:25 makes me laugh every time no matter how closer I'm getting to being that man.
Suggestion for the uploader. Could you add captions to your videos? Particularly in the UK spelling; fits the setting I'd say.
its been uploaded elsewhere
@@highpath4776 Huh? With accurate Captions for each clip??
Making the Officer of the Day cringe in fear, now that's Soldiering!
I didn't realise Sean Bean had proper pixie ears! 😊
Best damn man to serve in the British Army Sharpe was. Soudl gladly serve and fight with him.
Funny, who the British were starving his people to death at the time with the Potato Famine, but in Sharpe eyes, better have food in the table and a roof over your head, that die of hunger.
Love it, you're on RP's officer... hahaha
A bit of a blooper here, but you can see the actors foot at 3:51. 😄
the waggon master general was the best lol
they certainly keep the grounds in good nick.
Promotion for the men actually in camp should come quickly.
Recruits never showed up…… que the electric guitar music
If I was Sharp I would have dismissed the officers and finished the game of blind man's bluff for them. That's my style sir.
Found his missing leg at 3:51
I'm a simple man i see a sharpe thumbnail watch it, like it, comment it.
Now say it lad's whats that? SAY IT! 🤣
That's your style sir? Wait, wrong meme.
Now that's, Soldiering!
@@NerfZombieHunter LOUDER!
@BaCUI NOW THAT'S SOLDIERING!
@@bacul165 God save Ireland 🇨🇮
Why did the captain not know what rank Sharpe is, be just looking at his uniform? was it impossible to tell from his uniform or something?
So what was going on here? A Colonel was claiming the pay and rations for non-existent soldiers?
Yup.
Obviously you have not seen the full episodes. I recommend you to buy them, the CD/DVD boxes should be very cheap by now - if you can find them. Excellent value for money and a real treat to watch.
"And drew a lackery one."
lacquery* (As in covered in lacquer, because it's made of wood.)
Surprising the officer of the day, now that’s soldiering….
I am fluent in English and have no idea what Teddy Pegleg is saying…
I think I could understand about 2/3rds of what was being said.
The "Boris Johnson" of Captains!
Ah Sharpe. The only Character to survive Sean Bean.
I wish they’d have this on HBO
As a Piper in the 4th Battalion thr Highlanders the only time I've seen a SGT Major run was away from me every time I played for the Battalion Calls. Simply become when the Pipes and Bugler are playing everyone has to stand at attention 😂
undercover boss begins.
When all else fails as the Sargent...who in this case is also a quartermaster
Talking to a superior officer like he's dog dirt, that's soldiering
Who is the actor playing Officer of the Day?
Having hair on the side of your head, that's sideburning
So why wasn't that Battalion deployed with the rest of the Regiment?
Common practice was (ad still is, if for different reasons) to leave a certain amount of the unit back in the home garrison, in order to maintain the garrison facilities, to train new recruits for the regiment (like the ones Sharpe is looking for), to act as a receiving station for injured soldiers sent home (like the QM that Sharpe talks to), and to form the core of the rebuilt unit if the worst happens and the unit is wiped out on campaign.
You have to remember that in this era, regiments were barely removed from being the personal guards of individual noblemen. There was very little in the way of national military bureaucracy: there was no national training system, no Base Support Units, no Department of Military Personnel. All of these functions had to be carried out by the individual regiments for their own soldiers. The Engineer and Artillery Corps were slowly developing the ancestors of modern system for their highly technical specialist personnel, but the Infantry and Cavalry Regiments were mostly on their own. Each Colonel of a Regiment was given a budget that was (theoretically, at least) commensurate to the size, type, and situation of their unit, and was expected to use that budget to manage all of their unit's requirements including pensions for disabled veterans, training new recruits, food, repairs to garrison facilities, etc. This budget (or at least the portion of it paid out to the unit back in England) is what Sharpe is confirming in the first section of this clip.
@@boosterh1113 thank you that's a good bit of info I didn't know about.
Seen been is great
There's Ted and then there's everyone else, what a sorry buch they are. Having a leg blown off and still standing tall and proud. That's soldiering!
Anyone else notice that Sharpe totally forgotten his daughter
i think he compartmentalized it . if he thought about it, he probably would've been heartbroken, couldn't function
Sir Arthur Wellesley His Grace The 1st Duke of Wellington.
IN LIFE ONE Knows WHO !!!IS The BOSS 😮Sharp STARES DOWN ALL BEFORE Him Regardless OF RANK 👍ONLY Wellington GETS AWAY with it g
What's in the pouch that's on their back that they can't actually reach?
It's an ammunition pouch but I'm guessing it's a decorative one since this is more of a dress uniform he's wearing.
You actually can reach the ammunition pouch.
@@arnantphongsatha7906 Yes, that is why I said it was a decorative one.
Did a tiny bit of research and it is indeed an officer's cartridge pouch. It's not meant to actually be used as a cartridge pouch. Most officers aren't exactly the ones doing the shooting, they're just yelling orders.
There's loads of items that are part of military dress that used to have a function but are now purely decorative. This is especially true of officers uniforms.
"Sharpe sharping sharpe in sharpe - Sharpe in sharping" - Sharpe
Why am I always getting these videos in my suggestions?
You can click on the option, “do not recommend “.
@@sitbone3 I did that and now I miss him :(
I swear this series depicts like 95% of the British army as totally incompetant, corrupt or both. It's like whenever Sharpe goes to a new unit, or a new base, he's usually depicted as the only competant and dedicated officer there.
It's like the writers didn't even realize this was the army that basically conquered half the planet (granted the navy had a lot to do with that as well, but still)
Great job showing how little you know about the British Army.
[TL:DR: The British Army was often far worse than this series depicts]
Britain had one of the smallest armies in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars. It had a core of professionals but it also had the Militia. A home army who dressed in the same uniforms but never left England and had no military experience beyond reading about the Battle of Blenheim a hundred years earlier. Many officers of Wellington's army in the Peninsula transferred out of the militia to the real army, where their introduction to reality of war was a source of great conflict. The proper army didn't sleep in tents in the field (as this show depicts); they slept on the bare ground. If they stopped near a village, the officers would bivouac in the best building available which certainly were not as comfortable as an English county inn with hot meals and sprung beds as the Militia were used to. Quite often the best building might simply be the only one still with a roof.
Corruption in the British Army at the time went to the highest levels. The King's second son (The Grand Old Duke of York of the nursery rhyme) who was Commander in Chief of the army had a mistress who was caught selling promotions to officers. The Duke was forced to resign for his role in it, despite being a great administrator who had been doing his best to reform the Army. Indeed, many of his reforms were directly taken from Napoleon's army. The organisation of the British Army at the time was caught between the tangled bureaucracies of Horse Guards and the War Office who were more interested in a man's title than his military capability; sending men who were incompetent or genuinely insane to fight in Spain because they were the Duke of this or Lord of that. Or the son of Earl whosenwho. In the case of William Erskine; blind, epileptic and insane. And Wellington was forced to give him high command because of his connections. After being officially declared insane and removed from command, Erskine took his own life by jumping out of a window with his last words being 'Now why did I do that?' Having a friend or relative in Horse Guards could make you a general no matter how useless you were in battle. Having an uncle at the Admiralty is why Horatio Nelson rose so quickly through the Royal Navy's ranks to become a Captain. Without that uncle, he would still have been a lieutenant in the years he made a name for himself as a Captain.
British cavalry were regarded by Europe and Wellington himself as having the finest horses in Europe... And having the worst men riding them. They were only led intelligently in one battle, Salamanca, where unfortunately that commander was killed in action. They instead preferred to attack entire armies by themselves, getting themselves wiped out in the process. This most famously happened at Waterloo where after successively shattering d'Erlon's infantry corps, they charged the rest of the French army; less than 2000 horsemen versus 50,000 French infantry and hundreds of guns. After being mauled by the French artillery, they were annihilated by a counterattack of the French light cavalry; resulting in 90% losses to their squadrons. For this reason, Wellington would always turn to his German cavalry.
Being one of the smallest armies was an advantage, as controlling the salt-petre mines of India gave them an abundance of gunpowder, meaning the British were the only army that trained with live ammunition. This gave them a significant advantage in training. However, the nature of warfare at the time using muskets encouraged very little independent thinking. An individual redcoat thought of himself as part of the company, the company as part of the battalion, the battalion part of the brigade etc. The only soldiers who were trained to think for themselves were skirmishers; men like Sharpe. The Rifle battalions especially trained their soldiers to think independently and not look for orders. This created a sharp division with the redcoats who were drilled excessively to drive out any kind of independent thought. Musket armed troops had to fire concentrated volleys with maybe one ball in fifty actually hitting anything (sometimes it was as bad as one in two hundred) while rifles which could actually be accurate could pick their targets and make their shots count. The development of the rifle caused a schism between the old and new ways. Just like the French Revolution had. Riflemen like Sharp represent the meritocratic new ideals while the redcoats are the representation of the old rigid conservative system of nepotism and tradition.
@@DomWeasel The point is the British army wasn't anywhere nearly as bad as the show depicts. The series makes it seems like it was practically non-functional (at least until Sharpe shows up to turn it around). This was the Empire that enabled Britain to dominate the globe. It was also a full-on professional force, since the UK was one of the few major Europeans powers that didn't have conscription.
@@TheStapleGunKid
No, Britain didn't have conscription. Instead it filled its ranks by giving convicts the option of 'volunteering' rather than going to prison, Australia or the gallows. A third of all British troops were Irish who joined rather than starve in Ireland. Those 'professionals' were such notorious drunks than it was standard practice for the French to leave caches of alcohol where British troops would find them, knowing the Goddamns would drink themselves insensible within minutes if given the opportunity.
It was for this reason that Wellington had thousands of Provosts to keep them in line with orders to hang thieves on the spot and flog drunks raw.
The British Army had in the previous generation lost to the American revolutionaries. It had not been successful in Europe in a century since the Duke of Marlborough. Before the Peninsular Campaign led by Arthur Wellesley, every British foray against the French on land had resulted in disaster, from the Flanders Campaign to the Walcheren Campaign. The Walcheren Campaign has a prime example of British Army incompetence; they sent men who had gotten sick in Walcheren to Wellington's army in the Peninsula where they doubled the number of men in the sick lists permanently by spreading their diseases from the Netherlands amongst the troops in Portugal. This was one of the reasons why the British Army was 10,000 men short to the conclusion of the war. Battalions that were supposed to have a 1000 men could often muster fewer than 500.
You keep bleating about the Empire. The Empire at this time in history was at a low-ebb. They had lost the Thirteen Colonies to the American Revolution and they were only just starting to consolidate in India where most territory was run by the East India Company and not the British Government. As for Australia, the Aborigines were in no position to fight off the colonizers.
It wouldn't be until the 1880s that the Scramble for Africa would begin either. That's eighty years after the events depicted in Sharpe. A very different army.
And of course, in the 1850s there was the Crimean War. A war which dragged on due to incompetence from the lowest to the highest levels of British command, turning a siege that should have lasted a few weeks into a ten month affair. It's telling that the most known event from that war is the Charge of Light Brigade; where the British cavalry once again got themselves annihilated.
The navy was the difference maker. In that sense, "Hornblower" would be the series to watch
Are those Brown Bess Muskets?.
I'd imagine so given them time frame, still early 1800s. Too bad the Sharp rifle hadn't been invented yet I think? That 3 rounds a minute would have damn near doubled!
@@JnEricsonx Yeah. Thanks.
Actually......... yoo?
This sounds like the russian army of today.... as described by Peruns video about how corruption can destroy an army.
Sharpe could win any war he was placed in, I bet he could have won in America
AMERICA
Some BASTID must've sat on Sharpe's hat.
dancing pumps hahaha
If this is "English" then I don't speak English, I speak American.
Haven’t see this show, so I assume there was a money laundering conspiracy going on here?
Kickbacks, corrupt politicians & military officers?
Not money laundering but definitely a scandal. In that time good officers tended to treat their Regiments like proper soldiers and the bad ones treated them like personal property.
@@timwarriner38 It was corruption. The Colonel of the regiment was pocketing the money meant to pay the rations and salary of 700 non-existent soldiers.
Russian army in 2022
Wow, this is awful.
You are legally entitled to your opinion