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Young Boy Leads The British Into Battle | Sharpe
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- čas přidán 2. 09. 2020
- The British launch their assault, in this clip from Sharpe's Challenge.
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Hearing Daniel Hagman singing long after he's dead...heartbreaking but beautiful
Aye, always was one of Dan's favourites to sing. Heartbreaking to hear it sung again.
That's soldering in the Heavens
Old soldiers never die. They just dont fall in as quickly.
@@davidtuttle7556 No, mate, they're on patrol, always just a mile two ahead of us.
@@Alex462047 Exactly.
When a primary/middle schooler plays on Holdfast as officer.
in times of need,even these people might help.
When I started playing Mount and Blade: Napoleonic Wars as a high school senior, I joined a group that was led by a middleschooler. My time there continued for about a year since I started college. Half-way into that year, I got the idea of recording videos of those times. That dude is probably looking towards graduating high school soon.
Singing a navy song before a land battle
Now that's sailoring
Away away, the fife and drum, here we come, full of rum, looking to ....in the North Atlantic squadron!
They sang this song in Sharpe's Siege as well
SantomPh I believe it was sharpe’s company but nevertheless well spotted
The British were never shy about taking a tune and writing all or just a few of the words to suit their needs.
At the battle of Barrosa a flanker battalion lead by Colonel Browne made up of 6 companies (536 men) where ordered to attack a strategically important hill a Spanish Brigade had just abandoned having fired 1 volley, the hill was held by 4,000 Frenchmen and a battery of 8 pounder guns but the flanker battalion had to delay the French so as to get reinforcements and to stop the French from attacking the right Flank of a already engaged British and Portuguese Brigade less then half a mile down the road.
The 536 men are said to have advanced up the hill singing Heart of oak, the battalion would ultimately lose over 1/2 of it's men in the battle holding a French force 8 times it's size for the better part of an hour.
Map shows things reasonably clearly as a snap shot: www.britishbattles.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Barossa-map-2xx.jpg
Having a 12 year old lead men into a battle? Now that's child soldiering
British pre-teen: Smokes cigar before leading the troops into battle.
British parents: You’re born now, that’s enough of all this “mummy” nonsense!
Ensigns were usually 15-17
Now that's officering
Also British parents: “now take this sword, and this command rank, and these older men, and go kill whoever we’re fighting just now.”
@patrick howard death doesn't have an specific age to happen,but screwing is another thing.
John Smith Or as it’s called in modern times: Operation Human Shield!
I just realized the kid said “Forlorn Hope”
My blood went cold
Same. I was just under the impression they're readying for a regular battle. A rather massive yikes at his order to march.
A child leading the forlorn hope, that's soldiering!
Seems quite an odd decision.
@@Mugdorna They’re volunteers. Was pretty common for the young ensigns to do so to earn their first promotion.
Getting the newest and youngest officer to lead the Forlorn Hope...
Now that's soldiering.
Forlorn hopes were volunteer affairs. Suicidal, yes, but double wages, and if you’re an NCO or a low officer and you survived, then that was a promotion for you.
Giving a poor kid a cigar then making him lead the forlorn hope.
That’s delegating.
Forlorn hope we all volunteers. Poor buggers.
@@mylesdobinson1534 You are right, they would have all been volunteers. I was deliberately misinterpreting the scene slightly so I could get in a variation on the “that’s soldiering” joke.
Volunteer, every one of em. Double pay and a promotion for the one that leads it.
@@mylesdobinson1534 the boys father would have made him join the army to make a man of him before he could inherit the family estate or perhaps he was a second son
@@Minime163 That young ensign was from one of the Presidency armies recruited and paid for by the East India Company, not the British Army. Promotion there was strictly by seniority, not purchase, as commission in the Company's armies were not purchased.
Many ensigns were that young. It is also good to see him leading a forlorn hope made up of sepoys. These men made up the majority of the British and East India Company soldiers in India.
It is strange to think that even though the forlorn hope were almost always wiped out, officers volunteered to lead it, for the chance of promotion.
If you lacked money to buy a further rank, it was one of the few guaranteed ways to secure an permanent promotion.
You got promoted either to a higher rank, or to glory.
Alex H
It should also be said that any rank above ensign and below the rank of captain gave a pretty low pay-check despite the fact these officers are expected to buy some pretty expensive things as the nobility do. Just like what that one American lieutenant in the 95th rifles said, you better progress through those ranks as fast you can since you’re gonna be at a net-loss if you stay.
@@alexh3974 That young ensign was from one of the Presidency armies paid for by the East India Company, not the British Army. Promotion there was strictly by seniority, not purchase, as commission in the Company's armies were not purchased.
That’s one thing I have for sure noticed about the novels: anytime you hear the word “ensign” you know that characters got about 15 minutes to live 😂. It’s probably why Sharpe himself was only an ensign for half a book.
Ensign hicks didn’t get murdered tho
Its because of this channel I now have every episode of Sharpe. Hard to get ahold of in the US.
Hagman survived Waterloo and re-enlisted! That’s soldiering!
Some say his song can still be heard over those hills.
No. Soldiering is starting WWI in the regular army, the Brigade of Guards boxing champ no less. Then after four years of the most brutal fighting in human history, you volunteer for three more years of fighting as part of Intervention force because a mate asked you to go with him. That's what Harry Johns called a soldier.
If you don't know who Harry Johns was, don't feel bad. He was one of those nameless masses of troops who fought WWI, and one of six Scots Guards who were on parade in 1914, and in 1918. He was the one without the VC.
Something something...
That's soldiering
Even the “something something” joke is as dead as the soldiering joke
@@Deivid-bn6yw taking time to respond to a critic...
Thats soldiering! 😂😂😂
Cutting just as the fight begins. Now that's soldiering.
@Gareth Fairclough commenting on a comment that a youtuber commented
Now thats soldiering
They’ve both got it wrong. Now that’s commenting.
The way they all lifted their muskets at the same time on command...
Now that's shouldering!
Achievement Earned:
*Expertly Polite Insult*
Anytime else catch that insult Dod told Rod? Calling him a self serving coward.
Coughing while smoking a cigar?
That's inhaling
*Shame*
Man of culture I see. You are not supposed to inhale a cigar or pipe.
hearts of oak.................excellent....................brilliant upload
Bright young lads don't last long in a Sharpe's tale.
Sadly touching...
This child is leading the regiment, because in British Empire every regiment must be led by a noble officer (by blood). Commoner leading an army was a disgrace, they were trusted by neither the other officers nor the troops. Sharpe was one of the very few exceptions of this rule, that's why he was always mocked by everyone.
The kid was leading it because it's the Forlorn Hope (first into the breach). Casualties were routinely extreme for this, so commanders would send officers who were expendable rather than their older, more experienced ones. Survivors of a Forlorn Hope however were granted a specific battle honor and tended to receive accelerated promotion, so officers with children in the army would volunteer them (kids were kinda more....expendable back then. Seen as "eh, more at from where he came from"). The increased chance of promotion is why Sharpe was so desperate to lead the one at Badajoz.
No, that is completely wrong. Sons of noblemen were more likely to have the wealth necessary to purchase commissions, but there was absolutely no prohibition against commoners serving as officers, and many did, achieving high rank. Arthur Wellesley for instance, whose parents were wealthy, but not titled, and became duke of Wellington because he was a successful general, not the other way around.
Besides which, this is the East India Company's army. Nobility wouldn't lower themselves to be involved in a mercantile endeavor.
It was the French Army, before the revolution, where only titled nobility could be officers.
"must led by a noble officer"
Okay I must stop you there.
@@odysseusrex5908 Wellingtons father was an Earl...............
@@derwynowen8609 OK, you're right. Permit me to remove my foot from my mouth. Nonetheless, nobility was not a requirement for receiving the King's commission, to say nothing of the Company's.
Letting a child smoke
Now that's not soldiering
Quite right, it's officering
Well, I promise ya he ain’t gonna die from cancer, he’s more at risk of lead poisoning!
Dammit man, its all soldiering!!
I think leading soldiers into battle is worse for his health than the smoking
Chopped leaves wrapped in more leaves and set to a low blaze, That's Smoldering.
a young boy leading the attack Now Thats Soldiering
SOP. Tween- or teenaged ensigns led forlorn hopes since the young third or fourth sons were expendable. If they somehow survived, rapid advancement!
blastulae If they make it. A Officer promotion was in for them.
Now that's child soldiering
No Sharpe in a clip from Sharpe?
Ripe, very ripe.
Outvillaining the main villain? Now that's deserter Rodding!
Sharpe really deserved a bigger budget
"hmmm a 12 year old leading a frontal charge? better give him an opium blunt to ease his nerves", we sure did come a long way...
@Solar General to waste potential talent and good old men on a suicide mission, is also foolish.
Should've made a squad comprised of criminals-turned-soldiers and incompetent, uncouth officers to perform such suicide missions.
I like how almost every comment contains “now that’s soldiering” or sailoring
I think it's a rule that if a child shows up in a Sharpe episode they are definitely going to die.
Yep. Every Ensign. RIP Denny 😭
they're like the red shirts in star trek. marked for certain doom
0:38 why does this guy sound like the Imperial Guard Tank Commander from Dawn of War II?
Probably because it is him 🤣 actors do a lot of freelance work and the video game industry needs actors to bring those units to life.
Good to see the correct flag being used for the East India Company unlike in so many other productions and movies.
Spartans never die, they only missing in action
British to native soldiers: You will be the all important, first attack wave, which we will call Operation Human Shield!
There's always a forlorn hope and most of the East India company armies were made up of sepoys till the Indian mutiny, it's not that they're trying to shield the British soldiers, they all are volunteering to go with the forlorn hope.
It’s a forlorn hope, all volunteers. Double pay for every man that lives and a promotion for the officer if he lives. Good times
I’m quoting the South Park Movie!
@@BlackIce3190 yeah,i would send the more undisciplined and looters to be the first ones in a forlorn hope,that would show them.
@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 The Ottomans used to do that. It never worked out well.
Someone sure was anxious to thin the line of succession, in heirs to the Family fortune.
So, no one is going to talk about the bayonets in the background?
Spotting the British East India company flag, which looks almost exactly like one of the first American revolutionary flags.
now that's confusing
I hoped I wasn’t the only one who noticed this
@TheSmithersy Not quite, they may have seen the flag but it wasn't a deliberate copy, as far as anyone can tell. There's not much evidence either way.
having your last cigar before your first, now thats soldiering
@daniel ainsworth- OUCH!
Singing a naval song before a land battle?
That's soldiering.
Does anyone know where I can purchase the entire Sharpes Collection including the ones made after the series was over. I'm in the United States and cannot find any that will play in our format.
Good question, I'm looking too!
Guess you could try Amazon 🤔.
@@JackSmith-hx8zh I have, they don't have all of them in the US format.
@@jrhandley You can fix the player to play other disks, my dad did it to watch these, but I don't remember how.
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 thank you, I will look into it!
I love seeing the production quality and budget rise every episode
Sending a boy to do an office job now that is soldering
Hello Ensign. What's happening? We need to talk about your TPS reports.
@@DaGahbageMan Yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and lead the forlon hope tomorrow. If you could be aged around 9 that would be great
Fun movie trivia, Toby Stephens played as a young Clint Eastwood in Space Cowboys
The old sergeant (?) singing, at the beginning... it almost sounds like he was sad for the guys, young enough to be his grandsons, even younger.
Wishes he was back on a 2 decker
The least the old guy could have done is tell the boy you dont inhale a cigar!
What age does he have to be...before he's an "old boy" ???
An old boy is one that comes back after the battle.
Splendid.
Sword!
Shako!
Giving a child a cigar, now thats soldiering
"ALRIGHT MEN!!! RUN THAT AMERICAN FLAG UP THEM RAMPARTS! ... Damn't I mixed them up again..."
It's the flag of the East India Company. Before independence it was chosen as the Continental Flag because one of the goals was self rule under the Crown like the EIC in India
that kid is soo brave
whats that actors name that plays the sergeant in that scene. Sounds like the guy that voice acted the Imperial guard in Dawn of war 2
*GASTON WAS THE BEST SOLDIER OF THE SERIES...*
the more things change,the more they stay the same!
Nearly stubbed that cigar on those clean white breeches.
That’s smouldering.
You don’t inhale it
Good lad
Great
(Mount and blade) when the 10 year old officer takes charge with very bad connection and a very bad mic
Valiant stormers!
young boy in the military? now thats britishing
actor of that officer had to dub scottish speaker in medieval II total war!!!!
yes a new video
Where’s tank when you need one......oops! Wrong war
The Oi eu sou brasileiro
Young boys being sent into battle, not as buglers or drummers but combat arms troops???!
Was this common?
Yeah, it was pretty common to see a rich man’s son as an ensign. They volunteered for things like the forlorn hope because it was an almost guaranteed promotion if they came back alive.
@@BlackIce3190 The average 'fighting' man of the era was aged 15 to 45. Ie cavalry artillery or infantry. The average officer was usually 17 to 55. The average auxiliary ie drummer or medical orderly would vary between 13 and 40. This is the reason why the myth of the drummer boy was so pervasive. The proportion of drummers aged below 18 was higher than the proportion of actual musket 'carriers'. But the vast majority of 'boys' serving in uniform served as combatants not drummers. The straight 18 position is a XX century invention people before would only ask 'can he handle a musket/sword/pike?'. If the answer was yes you could be 12 and no one cared. Lets be honest here a 15 year old can handle a musket. Its not that hard. And people in the past tended towards ruthless pragmatism in warfare not 'think of the children' slogans. These are relatively recent impositions about 17 is a kid.
What is the name of this Movie?
Letting a kid lead the Verloren hoop?
This is not RUSSIA!!!
Now that’s soldering
What an episode?
This movie is very budget friendly
Writing something witty, that's commenting!
I dun remember this episode :O
aethelred from the last kingdom!
cool
my shota
Focusing for to long on a chap vomiting? That's bad Televisioning!
Now that's PRIDE ...
re cigar? mommy helicopters not yet built.
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” -Adolf Hitler, no lie.
Sharpe has a lot of scenes depicting child soldiers lol
And that boy grew up to be King of France.
More Cornwall malarchy!
Those weren't the British, those were the Indian troops of the British East India Company.
@@terrum-c7s The British never saw it that way, neither did the Indians.
@@odysseusrex5908 British subject as opposed to British citizen
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 Am I mistaken to think the UK govt got involved directly in ruling India after the mutiny of 1856?
@@chrisdaniels3929 Yep, you are right. This imagined event in Sharpe's TV series would have happened before that though.
He had it easy compared to a ships boy.
Is that Ensign Denny?
The officer that fought alongside Sharpe at Talavera? He died there.
Nope, Denny ain't blonde
Hearts of Oak (Royal Navy)
Rule Brittania🇬🇧🇬🇧
That British put many Americans of his age to SHAME.
Does poor Toby Regbo have to die in everything he does?
Age?
8
Command Experience?
*8*
Crikey. I'm early....for me.
What rank did the boy have?
Ensign, now second lieutenant.
They sent a boy for a job that needed a man
Being a child
Now that's soldiering
did they really send ensigns this young into battle let alone to lead a forlorn hope, and as he`s already a officer already if only an ensign surely he can buy another commission and so raise even further through the regiment, and even if he does by some miracle survive the battle and he makes lieutenant what happens when he gives an order to the men and they tell him to bugger off hes only little after all, this may well be ok with british east india troops, but in the regular british army if some of the privates dont like him then hes buggered, as hes only about 13 or whatever and probably does not have hair on his johnson, and off course the ensign in sharpes company was only a young kid just like this one and look what happened to him.
But why?
When is this coming out?
About 5-10 years ago give or take. It's on Netflix, it's a long multi part story.
@@kills26 in what country?
@@sovietunionrules122 UK
@@kills26 I'm In The U.S.
@@sovietunionrules122 Use a VPN, you can then access all regions of Netflix.
Otherwise you will have to wait, regional differences are annoying as f**k.
They gave the Suicide attack company to a wee boy?
Ensigns, amirite?
🇬🇧🇮🇳 vs 🇮🇳
Did the english boy leading the forlorn hope die though ?
Yes.. he did. Skip to 0:56 czcams.com/video/RlTSnRacrvE/video.html
Thats the way to build empires, have many children and send them out to prove themselves not at a certain age but at the time they show ability.
The idea of calling ppl children when they are 17 and 364 days old is ludicrous
Age 21 to be adult back then.
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