Sharpe Demotes A Looting Sergeant | Sharpe
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- Sharpe demotes a Sergeant for deserting the army.
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In the Peninsular War, a British sergeant is field promoted to a lieutenant in charge of a disrespectful rifle company. - Zábava
None of this is about the looting but about the fact that the Sgt and the South Essex had clear orders to head the enemy off and prevent them from escaping. They failed to carry out those orders and were saving themselves for the looting. Looting the enemy was normal and perfectly acceptable. The crimes here were failure to carry out orders and deserting...
Not true, looting was banned at that point in the British Army. The scavenging of equipment from the dead and stripping towns/fortifications for supplies was an army duty. Theft by individuals for private profit was a flogging offence.
@@jediknight1294 can't let any of the common men get the RIGHTFUL profit of the better MEN of the army now can we?
@@cookiecracker2 it was more complicated than that but the provost's were the usual profiteers.
@@jediknight1294 oh yea, I'm sure. However we all know that in the end basically none of the spoils went to any of the soldiers or people. (Gold clothing, jewels ect)
@@cookiecracker2 weapons and kir would have. One issue was thT wR had a ban on living off the and because the French were doing it and it turned the locals against them gold and several other things will have been 8sed by units to pay for spies.
Sharpe, a man so powerful he can survive being played by Sean Bean
It's not surviving being played by Sean Bean, it's all the other characters paying for Sharpe's survival each time.
Sean Bean's other character in a James Bond film as a villain don't survive, he fell on to a plate of a big satellite dish and then a big thing fell on to him.
Lol same comment
@@MIMALECKIPL Exactly what I've been saying. Penance - Sharpe has had more lives than a cat.
@@mikeharper5587 Aye
Firing a volley gun from the hip with no recoil... that's Harpering.
For those unfamiliar, a volley gun is exactly what it sounds like. 7 (sometimes more, sometimes less) barrels all muzzle-loaded to give in essence a shotgun spread akin to a blunderbuss.
Typically you only saw them in the hands of Marine crews and the likes because they were prized for sweeping the decks of enemy ships. or in close-quarters combat scenarios. I recall at least one variation custom built that was effectively 2 volley-guns mounted side by side engraved with "Perdition to Conspirators" So inscribed as it was used by a man who had his men mutiny against him and he never wanted anything less than the most firepower that could be brought to bare.
@@Rixoli
The blunderbuss was actually a musket with a wide muzzle to allow reloading as quickly as possible, say on the back of a horse, a rolling deck or the "shotgun" position on a racing away from bandits stage coach.
They didn't scatter shot all over the place...just like a modern "sawn off" shotgun doesn't spread shot widely at under 10 yards from muzzle to target..the column of shot even from a sawn off stays together for quite some distance....
The advantage of the sawn off barrel is in quick maneouvrability of the muzzle in tight areas....like a pistol...but with more punch.
The volley gun fired all barrels at once and the barrels were tweaked to fire more or less at the same point so whatever you shot at got hit hard.
It would have been best had the gun had a rotating barrel but of course each barrel would need it's own sights, frizzen pan and hammer as well....
a bit beyond the technology of the day to provide for use by armies....
@@Rixoli if you asked me the most Firepower somebody back then could have brought to bear would have maybe been using a hand mortar with an explosive shell it looks kind of like a blunderbuss accept even thicker and it was meant to shoot smoke grenades flares and bombs
@@jaredflynn3750 On a ship? Are you mad?
@Rixoli given the smaller calibre the knock wasn't actually that bad to fire based on the few iv shot.
1:08 Boromir would go on to upgrade the ineffective "Help Whistle" to the epic item "The Horn of Gondor" in his later years.
Haha, for some reason I thought of elementary school when he blew that whistle. I think I had a flashback to the end of recess.
I would give a like but that would upset the perfect number you have🤣
didn’t help much tho...😔
The Horn of Gondor, unfortunately, is equally ineffective
That is an epic comments 🤣
Sergeant Rod.
Private Rod.
*starts yeeting molten chocolate and sprinkles at him*
DESSERT ROD.
Simple,yet effective. Take down the ringleader,by demoting the sergeant to private, Sharpe clipped the looters wings quickly. Adding on that desertion and looting are punishable by 200 lashes and hanging. That gold would mean nothing when your neck is stretched in a noose.
in those days deserters were killied on sight
So, Sergeant Rodd is played by the same actor as Sergeant Bickerstaff in Sharpe's Challenge. That's budgeting ay Pyecroft :D
Was wondering about that - thought...wow he signed up again and was sent to India....
Same exact character, just changed his name too stay in after he got a demerit discharge from Wellington Army after Waterloo. He had no other skills for civilian life.
Julian Fellowes played Major Warren Dunnett in Sharpe's Rifles and also the Prince Regent in Sharpe's Regiment. Tony Haygarth was "Marshal" Pot-au-Feu in Sharpe's Enemy and Sir Willoughby Parfitt in Sharpe's Justice.
Now thats good Accounting.
Thought that was him!! Good polishing
0:08 "Well done my young apprentice, shooting an officer off his horse is all well and good, but only a true master can take out six guys at once with an inexplicable explosion"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/10735666/British-sniper-in-Afghanistan-kills-six-Taliban-with-one-bullet.html
Thats some RPG stunt right there
I think it was meant to be him shooting a powder box and setting it off, but the effect and angle they used definitely made it obvious that it was a prepositioned prop being detonated
Safe to say recruiting quality wasn't the best back then.
Anyone with working 5 senses and limbs will do, sir.
although people were not press-ganged a lot of people joined for the prospect of loot and 3 meals a day plus time away from home. The South Essex was raised by the corrupt Simmerson, so a lot of the men are not that different.
According to Cornwell; it was a way out for men who failed elsewhere.
Also, the promisse of a third of a pint of rum per day was a real motivation.
In short: thieves & drunkards.
"The scum of the Earth"; Wellesly said.
People are people, uniform or not, today or yesteryear.
Well, I believe Sharpe himself took the Kings Schilling because it was either that or get hung or sent to Australia. Only difference was he found Honor in the service.
Sharpe used the rules to discipline the Deserters. Filled the threat with everything - as he ought to - and made a firm stance on the matter. To fold at one is to give an opening to another.
Sharpey was always one for the rules. By the book e was, Sez I.
"it'll be 200 lashes then you'll hang!"
installs drapes onto his hanging body.
Curtain Rod.
LMFAO Best. Comment. Ever.
Lights him on fire
Hot Rod
This is the best 😂
Lmao! This comment deserves more recognition!
I read "Curtain Rod." In Sean Bean's voice
Sadly, Maj Sharpe never caught the bastard what stole his hat.
The honorable Ned Sharpe
Protecting the North with his Rifles...now, that's soldiering!
There must always be a Sharpe at Winterfell.
He spends more time slapping around English soldiers than he does fighting the French.
I was just consider that the show isn’t really pro British given how they portray them.
The writer explained that most of the villains were British so that Sharpe could have more interactions with them...
Also a bit unnecessarily jingoist for a contemporary author to make all the villains foreign, I mean, history does that already insofar as the perspective of an active soldier would be...
Even today most of the issues come from your own lines, not the enemies.
I'd ask any veteran I know about the biggest problems and they'd always say it was on our side. They might have hated some of their enemies but they rrreeaalllyy hated poor leadership and opportunistic commanders. It's a plague. People are just terrible when given any command.
at 0:10 when Perkins kills an officer before Hagman does and gets a "good lad, good lad" for his deed...
Now that's Soldering!
at last! a soldering comment!
Proceeds to behead the deserter.
“A man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.”
The looter's lack of assistance caused unnecessary death, which is why Sharpe clipped that sergeant.
I hope the future brings a remake of the Sharpe series with a big budget. Cornwell said he is considering writing another Sharpe book when he finishes the next Last Kingdom series book he's working on.
Wait ... How the fuck did I never notice I was reading books from the same author. That explains quite a lot... Thanks for bringing that fact and the good news to my attention.
Its not sharpe without sean bean, the man is 60 years old i dont think he can do this all again... :(
Last kingdom and sharpe now that right there is two of the best series ever written
GCI :(
He also did a fucking brilliant series around The 100 Years War, that focused on an archer called Thomas of Hookton ... well worth checking out!
My grandma once said that one of her husbands who was in WW2 was in a squad of soldiers. They were sent into a very hostile area on orders to take it. This squad's commander was an incompetent swine who due to his orders many of their friends died in hopeless engagements. In one skirmish intense fighting started. Their commander ordered a charge. He head straight towards a hole to hide while his soldiers did the fighting. One of his soldiers considered him a traitor and threw a grenade in that hole and killed him. The soldiers in the squad knew it had to be done. But they kept what had happened between themselves. They weren't able to win that battle and seeing as how they lost their commander. They radioed to find another squad to join.
They did win the battle but lost a few other friends. But they wouldn't have lost the others if it wasn't for the inept incompetence of that leader. I don't know what his rank was. The details are a bit lost because she died some years back.
god damn
@@randomcow6440 War is a very brutal thing even more brutal than life it's self. But to be honest if you're going to be a coward don't join the military. No need for good soldiers dying because of you or dying in such a senseless death.
Fragging is quite common against incompetent officers even to this day.
Sharpe does the same thing to the Paul Bettanys character because he was a coward and was getting men killed too. I don’t know what episode, I actually just found this show on CZcams.
@@KenobiStark1 Are you talking about Prince of Orange?
1:09 the only time in the series Sharpe uses his whistle!
Rifle brigade used bugles.
The only time he needed to.
@@DorkDraxor light infantry companies and rifle regiments had buglers, yes - But corporals, sergeants and officers had whistles for their own use, though the bugler was definitely the better choice here. Writers don't care, lol
Sharpe's style of leadership reminds me of another fictional character, Ibrahm Gaunt of WH40k
Wasn't Gaunt inspired by Sharpe?
@@the_j_machine2254 Atleast I heard that multiple times and it surely makes sense. Sure, Gaunt isn't exactly "from the ranks", he is a bona fide officer, but his dedication, leadership and ability to get hot women everywhere is clearly fitting to be inspired by Sharpe
that guy was for sure just an orc from shadow of mordor cosplaying as a human.
Man those green jackets, i wish that kinda fashion came back.
Harpers favorite little toy, the Nock Gun, why he carried it was a bit of a mystery because it wasn't that good a weapon. The seven barreled .52 caliber gun, some rifled and some smooth-bore, designed by Henry Nock for the Royal Navy was used briefly as a hand-held volley gun, firing multiple shots at the same time with the flash from the number 1 barrel being allowed to propagate into the others to set them off at more or less the same time. The weapon proved to be impractical for a number of reasons, chief among them being the recoil: the force of seven half-inch barrels, firing simultaneously, was enough to dislocate or break the shoulder bone of a man using it and made the weapon nearly impossible to aim. Orders were later given to load the gun with only a half-charge, which bought the recoil under control but made the weapon useless for its intended purpose and little more than a giant shotgun. In the heat of battle it was also not unknown for sailors to forget which barrels had powder in them, making it very easy to accidentally double-load the gun, a problem compounded by one or more barrels frequently failing to fire. Additionally, for someone firing from high in the rigging of a ship, the gun greatly increased the risks of being knocked down and plunging to the deck, or accidentally setting fire to the sails (one of the reasons why Nelson refused to allow his captains to post snipers of any kind in their rigging during the Battle of Trafalgar).
It's my belief that Harper carried it for the same reason that Sharpe managed to bed a different beauty in nearly every novel-because it sounds pretty cool.
No. Because Harper from the books was bigger and could fire it without breaking his shoulder. The problem with the gun was the massive kick. All barrels were unrifled
Nerd
Ricky Spanish
Idiot. He is pointing out an inaccuracy.
@@rickyspanish5533 rather be a nerd than a complete waste of oxygen like you.
"Steal nothing except from the enemy, or when starving."
3:30 an orc from mordor in a redcoat
No no, just British teeth
They didn't attack because they were starving, they ain't had nothing but maggoty bread but three stinking days!!
@@Bringmeoneofthosechickens
Clegane. The fuck you doing here?
Ned Stark looks great
back then he didn't lose his head over some honour.
Boromir
CZcams is trying to take my mind off how bad season 8 is
The Sharpe series is a good catharsis.
You mean Game of Thrones.
Looting sergeant has disliked this
Look who I Found :) BTW Sharpe is awesome
Looting private
Looting deserter
it is at 111 now so it is not just him. :P
Looting was not illegal but the income from it went to the army and towards the soldiers pensions. Soldiers stuffing undeclared wealth in pockets or burying it for later would just mean more desertions from guys who no longer need the money.
that and they did nothing to earn that money
@@vincenthammons6705 Do you think you'll get a reply from the person who posted that comment 3 years ago?😉
@@CB-xr1eg how about 3 months?
@@tarektechmarine8209 How about 3 days?
That was the most delayed group explosion reaction ive ever seen
Not really. That looks pretty accurate actually
Mud & looting are two constants in military service.
The guy was leading a mutiny. Should have told the rest that running would mean death, that the leader of the mutiny was a capital offense, and shot him right there. Brutal times, but that's the law.
Sargent Orc: "We've had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!"
Sharpe: "It all goes to to the great eye ay?"
Sargent Orc: "Are you saying eye eye, or eye ay?"
*Gets shot in the face*
If only Sean Bean had a Sgt Harper in lord of the rings.
I love Sharpe! Both the books and the show are great, so lucky that sean bean plays him, the fact it was an unintended casting after the actor they hired for sharpe broke his leg right before filming began has to be one of the most lucky things to ever happen to a tv show
Sharpe was permanently out of breath - from the start of the Peninsular War all the way to Waterloo.
See where the deserters fuced up is by not fragging sharp and his men when they had the chance
i wish they brought this show to Canada, but then again I can't understand most of what the looting sergeant is saying...
Different parts of England had different accents and dialect like Mancs, Scousers, Brummies, Geordies and Cockneys.
@@cosmicwartoad2587 where rod from?
Despite everything said in the comments British soldiers were actually quite refrained InThe latter years of the napoleonic era when looting was violently punished. When the White House in America was charged by the Brits and set on fire the Americans noted after a ‘suprising amount of rubble’ because all the artefacts and paintings had been left as they were.
And the stuff in White house was government property so arguably not looting that was a dereliction of duty.
@@michalsoukup1021 more like reclaiming property from the treasonous colonials :p
@@89Keith that is certainly true.
Most of it had been evacuated beforehand.
That's discipline.
I FIRST WATCHED HIS VEDIOS 15 YEARS AGO
N THERE STILL GREAT TO WATCH NO IN 2020
THANKS
Rodd and his men hang their own allies out to dry, then loot an entire French caravan and get invited back to the army later.
Skillicorn, a foolish but good kid, takes one chicken from a deserted village and get hanged for it >:-(
These are no soldiers. These are shameful disgrace
Rummaging through trunks filled with expensive silverware and jewellery? Now that’s looting!
Who else burst out laughing when he shouted: "bugger the king and his shilling!"
that sergeants demeanor and way of talking had me laughing!
Sergeant Rod. Private Rod. Deserter Rod.
*pulls out a newly invented electrical device*
Cattle pRod
Throws him a stick with some wire and a hook. “Fishing rod.”
Now in 2020, i realize that many of the musket sounds are used in....videogames.
Glad to see a lot of the French soldiers got away. They were needed the day after for a riot scene in the episode of The Bill the day after.
I worked with a guy almost exactly like that sergeant... looked the same just older, same accent, same attitude. glad I don't work with him anymore.
Why am i watching all these sharpe clips...i've never seen a single episode but i carry on.
there trying to loots all the kills that sharpe and his boys got, what a bunch of vultures, like any MMORPG
It’s a small thing, but it always bothered me that the sound of the gunshots isn’t right. All flintlocks have a distinct pause between the powder in the pan and the powder in the barrel going off. It should sound like CLACK-BANG!
Realism was not the series' strong point 😄
Sergeant rod. Private rod. Deserter rod.
Turns him into a car.
Hot rod.
Goddamnit
He could have run away, Found religion, became a priest and became...
Holy Rod.
@@Rose.Of.Hizaki Good God, I wonder what You'll come up with next guys hehe
Straps the Sergeant to a dog sled and forces him to compete in a long distance Alaskan race for his freedom.
IditaRod
The Sergeant would become horribly jaundiced from alcohol abuse later in life turning his skin very yellow.
A particular shade of yellow.
GoldenRod
When those French soldiers were hit they really knew how to fall with grace ..
Now that's what i call soldiering
To be fair judging by the undercover recruits episode they were lied to by the recruiters and are fully justified in trying to GTFO at first available opportunity.
One thread that runs through Sharpe is indeed that common folk were led on to fight for kings and all the garbage that was "restored" after the Napoleonic Wars. Which plagued Europe for another century, until governing monarchy's brutal and inglorious end in World War I.
Отличная книга. Отличный сериал. И Шон Бин до конца фильма доживает
lol at 0:08 the actors on the ridge are just standing there
they probably weren't supposed to be in the shot, or nobody told them they were.
Famous French discipline
Reshoots are expensive.
Paralysed by fear no doubt
Waiting for their cue
Who on earth made that guy a sergeant major?!
Probably one that run out of best option.
In war time, you'll be shocked to see how it's easy to get promoted when people in your unit get killed left and right on daily basis.
I suppose after soldiers haven't been paid in many months that duty, honor, patriotism and discipline falls by the wayside in a matter-of-fact fashion.
0:39 Gotta love how those corpses are breathing!
Being hit by a musket ball doesn’t kill you instantly
You lie there with a hole through your lungs as blood and bone fragments seep into them, gasping for breath
@1:10 The Whistle of Gondor!
I can't believe the drummers deserted with them..
Imagine if they made a sharpe video game, where you can fire three shots a minute
Sean bean surviving.. now that's soldiering
Bickerstaff! Oh, dear... Sharpe's Gold... The TV episode I like to pretend doesn't exist.
It was a good book and seemingly a good plot for a TV episode so why the monstrosity with all the Aztec nonsense.
The series did this with a couple of other actors playing two characters. Tony Haygarth played Pot au Feu (sharpes enemy) and Parfitt (sharpes justice) and Julian Fellowes played Major Dunnett (sharpes rifles) and the prince regent (sharpes regiment)
@@JTwiss88 Holy crap, I didn't make the connection with Haygarth, good call on that!
Damn I forgot how good this show was
That was rather blunt of you, Sharpe.
That's mutiny
And desertion....
Napoleonic soldiers rarely fire on fleeing enemy.
damn, that one soldier was on the ball, just throws his superior aside and shoots that last guy.
That's Harper: closest friend of Sharpe
Maybe if soldiers were paid better, they wouldnt resort to this. Cant blame the guy really
I absolutely love that 7 barrel musket
It’s a great series
shadrak bickerstaffe could easily have been this character. They didn't have to use a different name. If he can bump into simmerson he could well have met this guy now a sergeant?
I appreciate bickerstaff was probably meant to be hakeswell but had to be changed as made out of sequence... this would have been the perfect comprise...
The novel Sharpe is in India BEFORE he is a famous officer and is just a redcoat, and he saved Wellington in India at Assaye. Hakeswill and Captain Morris were his problems there.
Sgt Rodd is just a one off, previously good soldier gone bad… he is spared so presumably rejoins the SE as a private and as he isn’t heard of again is no longer a problem.
Bickerstaff is essentially Hakeswills replacement since in TV land this takes place in 1816-18 long after Hakeswill has died. Why they chose the same actor I don’t know… hes got the mouthy southern bore patter …. Maybe they liked it.
"Orcs? And so far from Orcland."
-Gandalf probably
On another episode of WHY IS THIS IN MY RECOMMENDATIONS.
2:37 even back then soldiers wore highly reflective uniforms.
they didn't have separate uniforms for PT in those days
Those are musicians
What cowards shooting soldiers helping civilians.
Tosses the sergeant into a pond to catch fish.
Fishing Rod.
Based on the sharpe series written by Bernard Cornwell awesome books
Wellington was very strickt so he would appruved Sharps action
one would say though officers who try to go after his own men would learn the hard way on what happens when they cross him.
Is this in my recommended because of Game of Thrones?
Omg a program Sean Bean doesn't die in haha 😂
Pvt. Rodd reincarnated as Sgt. Bickerataff in Sharpe’s Challenge.
I really like the Sharpe series and I'm OK for a remade. But not like 16 movie, maybe a trilogy with a first movie, maybe a Sharpe's siege and Waterloo. But with a higher budget and mightier battles and little bit tone it down with a dark theme. More scenes with empathy and much much better music.
The music is great what are you talking about
Also the peninsula war was the most brutal of all the conflicts of the napoleon in wars. It deserves to be dark
Rod actually is getting off pretty easily. Book Shaarpe would have shot them all dead.
No other sand pit has been fought over so many times.
Where can I find this series online?
They are here on CZcams
They really need to remake this and with the whole book series 9n top of that
Sean bean is my favourite actor
200 lashes? Im not sure that was survivable.
Well they do get hanged afterwards so I don't think it matters if they don't survive the lashes. Dead either way
Sometimes it was spread out - 50 at first, a few weeks to recover, then another 50 or so. In the case of ones due to be hanged the flogging was sometimes cancelled, in case the flogging sent them through the pearly gates first before the hangman got to them.
I think that Sharpe got 200 lashes when he was flogged (he'd done nothing to deserve it).
Is... is that the Steyr Scout sound from Counter-Strike?
magical rifles - that we never see them going to the trouble of reloading ..
Pretty laid back battle scene.
Loved the cheerful music.
It was 90s British low budget tv lol
Why would a Sgt. be leading a party to cut off fleeing Frenchman? Did they kill their officer? Why would Sharpe send Patrick to oversee the combined operation?
I’m pretty sure both this NCO and Patrick are Sergeant Majors, despite only having 3 stripes.
I can’t remember where their officer is.
The north remembers...
Best villain ever. Perfect casting. Part of me is with him in spirit :)
What’s his name?
@@sjacrane I'm not 100% sure but I think it's Sergeant Bickerstaff. I believe the actor actually had two roles in the show, different episodes of course, different characters. But I think this guy was Bickerstaff. If I'm wrong, I apologise.
Sgt Rodd, Private Rodd, deserter Rodd...
Think Bickerstaff was the other character played by the same actor :)
@@MerlynMusicman Oh yeah! It was Rod. How could I forget after that demotion scene? :) Nice one!
Drummer starts playing for dramatic effect 😆
Makes no sense to me...you can take their life but you can't take their valuables?
You don't loot the ennemy corpses when their alive brothers may still be around to avenge them,even so don't loot at all
@Jeremiah Boyd well fucking idiot would you strip any corpse you meet of any cash ?
@Jeremiah Boyd quick exemple,you're one of these brits depicted in the vid,alone,you see an ennemy corpse on the ground,you bend the knee and you start taking his stuff,what if ennemies were still watching ?you'd be a dead man too really soon
@Jeremiah Boyd you just don't rush to ennemy corpses like if they were gifts below your xmas tree as soon as you don't see the ennemy or don't see them facing you
@Jeremiah Boyd doesn't take a genius to find out that getting shot in the ass while stealing an other corpse isn't a smart move