I loved that little speech... Men remember, I came from you threw the ranks. I am Major Sharp. I am here to teach you how to be solder...... The smirks of the men as they think " I like this guy and can relate to him."
"And were they all Frog officers?" It's hilarious how Sharpe and Harper are like a stand-up comic duo, they've got their whole patter worked out in advance.
Enough time in the thick of it with the same people puts you all on the same page. Not just in combat but in general. You all learn to anticipate eachother pretty effectively.
Just an unpleasant thing to watch especially how the brits got kicked in the balls by Napoleon during this campaign and as always retreated on their boats to go back on the swampy island
@@ommsterlitz1805 What on earth are you talking about? This is the Peninsula War. 😂 The British left the Iberian peninsula when they marched into France.
@@What-go8ng That is why the platoon sergeants are generally the most experienced in the platoon. He serves as an example to the privates and is mostly the person who leads the fighting. The officer just have to coordinate troop movements and distribute orders, the actual leader is usually the platoon sergeants or what ever rank the NCO is.
Literally how Lord Admiral Nelson died. His officers begged him not to wear his uniform and medals at the battle of trafalger but he did anyway and a french sharpshooter shot him
@Juan Carlos De Goya@Gracz87 The white coats were also Austrian, being more of a buff white color, but still white. The old french army of the ancien regime (pre-revolution) wore white for the French, red for Irish/Swiss, and blue for the Germans. The Spanish did wear white, but uniform of different colors and styles were common after the French dissolved the bourbon monarchy in favor of Joseph Bonaparte. There was no official army of Spain till the end of the Pennisular war, instead they were either in the Regiment Joseph Bonaparte or in the Volunteer brigades or Guerillas. Most greatcoats were color coded according to either regiment's depot or to regiment's status. The imperial guard's was the easiest, dark blue.
@@LSPD1909 To quote your first post: _"my guess is you couldn't find your mouth from your asshole in a firefight."_ Considering your comment comes from someone who made the very same mistake first _and_ who does not know that sentences start with a capital letter and starts with a small letter _twice,_ this is quite rich, boy. ^^ I am not a native english speaker, what's your excuse? Too many brain cells drowned in alcohol, Eddieboy?
@@engasal clearly you didnt watch the series. because if you did you would get the joke. but hey comedy like memes are something you kind of people dont understand -shruggs
History often tells the story of the survivor. The ones who died would have a fascinating story to tell, and we do not hear it. The survivors might tell a different story.
@SarSaraneth that's not treason lmao. Kyle is an Irish exile, who left Ireland because his family supported the Catholic Stuarts over the Protestant side.
Keily is not a bad leader, just inexperienced and rather gullible, at least where Juanita is concerned. He is excellent in the saddle and can fight ably on horseback; he even RIDES into the fortress they attack like a cavalry hero. this is a much better portrayal of him than the book, where he kills himself halfway through.
"My name is Sharpe, Major Sharpe I'm gonna teach you to be soldiers." If you hear a strange sound in the distance that's just the entire French army crapping their paints in unison when they find out Sharpe is training the Irish.
Always think the same. Imagine all the uniforms right, all the muskets correct, more extras in scene, not seeing the same extra officers in different sides, like one of the Spanish officers with Keily is a French officer that appears with General Calve in Sharpe's Siege.
Hasn't shagged anyone in this clip either - I'm amazed we never saw one episode where Sharpe had to take an emergency poultice after one spoil of battle too many.
Earl rides in, 'Who do you think you are.' Sharpe's response (in subtext), 'you may think I need to impress you, but in reality, you're the one who needs to watch their step. For I do not suffer fools gladly, I would even use that silver spoon in your mouth to teach you a lesson.'
in truth Napoleon's officers wore all those colors. The Saxons in his service were blasted by the French at Borodino because they thought they were Austrians, both wore white coats. Fredrickson's black coat represents Westphalia, his father's homeland and natural enemy to the Saxons
@@SantomPh Some French infantry units reverted to the white or pale grey of the French royal army, and this seems to have been Napoleon's goal for the whole infantry, but it was never carried through. Probably too difficult logistically. It might also have risked what we now call friendly fire incidents with enemy troops. For example the Austrian infantry wore white or off-white uniforms.
Earl Cailie: "Drill sargent you mean..." Major Richard Sharpe: The hardest flex to ever flex a flex on a landed noble that it even made the horse say "got-daym!" after Sharpe was done.
@@kael13 What Sharpe is saying here is: you've just fired a shot and haven't got time to reload, while a mounted officer is bearing down on you. So you club the *horse* with the butt of your rifle, making it throw its rider, and then you use the bayonet on the rider. *Then* you might have time to reload.
One just have to love YT's auto-generated subtitles. With those the inspection at the beginning becomes hilarious. _"Cake fell in the battle... No don't get screw... Did you ever fire a muskie..."_
Sean Bean is the Eternal Warrior. Every time he dies, he's reborn as a warrior in another world. (Well, not really, but I'd pay to watch a movie or series built around that idea).
"The best person to kill on the battle field, is always the enemy officer" Too true! lol Edit: The horse agreed with Sharpe about clubbing it in the face when you run out of ammunition/or shot the ball.
@terry waller Well yes of course. It is a much faster pace combat too! You have to take out the most lethal opponent in a quick second decision and the secondaries later.
@terry waller Killing goes against nature when you're just wanting to go out and kill whoever you want. These wars are started by greedy bankers, businessmen, elite who make money out of arms deals, death and destruction whilst controlling the population. Only psychopaths want to go out and kill innocent lives because they like to be violent. Killing destroys the human soul that's why we're the only species on the planet that is capable of doing such evil.
When you can't hit the broadside of a barn from inside with a single musket and any number of things can go wrong in the woods, you bet your ass they're better off firing in a line.
@@MadSpectro7 tell that to General John Sedgwick. Light infantry and skirmishers in a loose formation taking pot shots ar you is not a joke... Ignor them and you won't have enough men left to form your line when their line marches up to you...
@@GrasshopperKelly And the skirmishers that killed Sedgewick were lucky there was no cavalry around to ride right through their loose formation and introduce them to the cold steel of a saber. Lines are important because they keep the cavalry away.
skirmishing chain=fewer muskets available in the vicinity to shoot while the enemy charges with bayonets. in the time the enemy marches across 100 yards, in battlefield conditions you can get at most 3 shots with each musket with only 1 in 20 chance of hitting an enemy each shot, you need as many muskets as possible close together to do any damage. after that it's just bayonet fighting and skirmishing chain is too scattered for effective bayonet fighting. every time theres a line regiment shown there are always idiots who claim that they know better. even the us continental army mainly used lines not skirmishing. skirmishing was used only at the start of the battle when the armies had not yet formed up and both sides including line infantry will form skirmish chains. once they were ready to charge both sides would quickly change to line formation to prepare for bayonets.
The nobles were also neded for the administration of the units. Pesants would not have the required education for that. Most nobles had also training in tactical and strategic thinking
Your commission as an officer was a large upfront investment. If you were competent and got promoted, it would be worth a lot more when you resigned it. Combined with the opportunities for the spoils of war, and the obvious incentive of not being cut down in battle, all served as a decent motivation to not be like most of the officers in Sharpe.
Has anyone noticed that why the officers are always the prime target for the Rifles? Because they're the most well dressed of all, and stands out easily among them.
William Bodin that’s how he got assigned to the rifles. As an Ensign in India he preferred to use a musket once battle had commenced rather then just stand around with drawn sword.
Back in the day the "rules of war" basically stated that officers should not be purposefully targeted both out of a sense of chivalry (officially) and practicality. A captured officer was worth more in terms of ransom and exchange than 100 common soldiers, and wars were (and still are) ruinously expensive, so killing them prevented valuable ransom. Officers were mostly nobles so basically an agreement among the nobility to not target each other, Common soldiers could also tell who on their side was in charge based on who was the best dressed person. In more modern wars officers remove any rank insignia or distinguishing markings and enlisted soldiers aren't even supposed to salute officers when the enemy may be near by because a sniper will then know who to target.
One would think the personal bodyguard to the King would be Elite Combat Troops, the Best of the Best of the Mother-Loving Best, and generally you'd be right. But not always. The days of Kings leading the Army into battle were over centuries before this, the King very rarely left the safety of his Capital, well away from the lines of any war his country may be involved in, and more than a few of them actually had little more than Color-Guards manning the gates of their palaces. They looked good in uniform, marched well and stood tall, they could keep the peasantry from being a nuisance, but that was about it.
Incorrect. Karl XII of Sweden was killed in battle less than a century before the Peninsular war, and Frederick the Great of Prussia led his troops into battle on the regular, as little as 30 years before this; he survived many close encounters to eventually die in his armchair.
French kings had an entire "Maison du Roi" of guard units, but the only ones who fought and died for Louis XVI were the Swiss Guards, and even that may have been the result of a misunderstanding. Many of the Swiss spoke little French, they were recruited from German-speaking parts of Switzerland and this partly insulated them from revolutionary sentiment. Officers for some of the other units escaped abroad and some tried to organise royalist armies, but by and large the Maison du Roi proved useless when really put to the test. In 1917 in Petrograd, Russian Guard units failed to suppress demonstrations that ended with the Tsar abdicating. The best Guard troops had long since been killed or badly wounded at the front.
Double meaning is that it's the english that ate frogs it was just propaganda as always to say they were eating frogs but unknown to an english man France isn't a swamp island like there's 😂
“You are my little lads,” he roared. “And I will look after you.” - Sergant Jackrum, Monsters Regiment. Some soldiers are needed to have an army, or else you only have a bunch of men lumbering around.
What isn't implied in the series, but may well be taken as fact, is that Sharpe had been exposed to Sir John Moore's training methods at Shorncliffe, and at least some of it rubbed off on him to add to what Sharpe had already learnt in India.
For sure. In the books, after Trafalgar, before Sharpe’s Prey, he goes to Shorncliffe, and loves the training but then, Lady Grace dies and he’s very sad, and get left behind when the Rifles head to Denmark. Superb writing!
When Sharpe is aiming the musket at the colonel, you see Harper "resting" his firearm with the hammer pulled back and his hand on the trigger. Just in case the incoming group of officers may react negatively.
"What! what! men, dodging this way for single bullets! What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." The second last words of Union General John Sedgwick, before taking a bullet to the left cheek.
@@JnEricsonx i see you in the commentsection of many of these sharpe vids. always hope to see a 70 (metric) ton jumpcapable mech instead of the insect but eh. you always have some good stuff to say so ill eat my disappointment
If you want to see more iconic scenes from Sharpe , SUBSCRIBE to our channel !czcams.com/users/SharpeOfficialvideos?sub_confirmation=1
Teaching the men a good lesson and backhand insulting the nearest clueless noble at the same time? Now thats soldiering.
I loved that little speech... Men remember, I came from you threw the ranks. I am Major Sharp. I am here to teach you how to be solder...... The smirks of the men as they think " I like this guy and can relate to him."
@@jonathanbair523 I’m gonna make you boys STRONG
"And were they all Frog officers?"
It's hilarious how Sharpe and Harper are like a stand-up comic duo, they've got their whole patter worked out in advance.
Serve together long enough and you wind up on the same wavelength I'd imagine.
It's called Veteranism.
Enough time in the thick of it with the same people puts you all on the same page. Not just in combat but in general. You all learn to anticipate eachother pretty effectively.
Just an unpleasant thing to watch especially how the brits got kicked in the balls by Napoleon during this campaign and as always retreated on their boats to go back on the swampy island
@@ommsterlitz1805 What on earth are you talking about? This is the Peninsula War. 😂
The British left the Iberian peninsula when they marched into France.
"Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo."
-Murphy's Laws of Combat operations no.7
John Sedgwick comes to mind...
@@GrasshopperKelly "The couldn't hit an elephant at this distance"
@@Gabryal77 mmm...
@@Gabryal77 I believe the correct quote is "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist......" Always loved it.
I can't like this enough.
"...a bad officer is better off dead..."
no truer words have ever been spoken
even worse a officier who is after glory and medals... those are the worst!
Wouldn't a bad enemy officer be good for us, though?
@@SDeww 1,000 men for a square meter of land and a shiny button for their immaculate uniform
truth of the matter is soldiers need a flag to rally around, that's the officer - even if they're incompetent as fuck all.
@@What-go8ng That is why the platoon sergeants are generally the most experienced in the platoon. He serves as an example to the privates and is mostly the person who leads the fighting.
The officer just have to coordinate troop movements and distribute orders, the actual leader is usually the platoon sergeants or what ever rank the NCO is.
"Jesus you wouldn't kill an Englishman with that nevermind a bloody Frenchman!" LoL God Love Sgt Patrick Harper.
And the look he gets seems like "these two guys seem like hard cunts but they're actually alright."
Major or either Sgt major
Had the pleasure of watching Daragh O Malley on stage a few years ago. He has great presence and is perfect for this role.
the sly look O'Rourke gives him, if someone could laugh without moving their mouth its him
Sure I wouldn’t know, I’m from Donegal!
"And have you done it yourself?"
"More times than I can count."
"And were they all Frog officers?"
_grin widens, shakes head_ lmaoo
I honestly love the relationship between Sharpe and Harper lol.
Sharpe himself almost was in the better off dead category but thanks to a French raid got Harper on his side
One may be Sharpe, and One may be Harper, but together they're Sharper@@chrisgorman3997
Enemy Officer: I think I’ll wear my fancy uniform today.
Sharpe: I’m about to end this mans whole career.
Literally how Lord Admiral Nelson died. His officers begged him not to wear his uniform and medals at the battle of trafalger but he did anyway and a french sharpshooter shot him
When he said white uniform I froze because the spanish also wore white uniforms
@@juancarlosdegoya2757 btw. There were also red and white uniforms in french Napoleonic army - Swiss regiments and Dutch grenadiers :P
I read that last bit in Sean Bean's accent
@Juan Carlos De Goya@Gracz87 The white coats were also Austrian, being more of a buff white color, but still white. The old french army of the ancien regime (pre-revolution) wore white for the French, red for Irish/Swiss, and blue for the Germans. The Spanish did wear white, but uniform of different colors and styles were common after the French dissolved the bourbon monarchy in favor of Joseph Bonaparte. There was no official army of Spain till the end of the Pennisular war, instead they were either in the Regiment Joseph Bonaparte or in the Volunteer brigades or Guerillas. Most greatcoats were color coded according to either regiment's depot or to regiment's status. The imperial guard's was the easiest, dark blue.
"Once sir, one day" - he just sounds so defeated, like he knows what he's saying and what they'll think of him, but he can't bring himself to lie.
He's knows they know too. Better to pick the best from bad options...
@@LSPD1909 My guess the same is true for you even under normal circumstances.
@@LSPD1909 To quote your first post: _"my guess is you couldn't find your mouth from your asshole in a firefight."_
Considering your comment comes from someone who made the very same mistake first _and_ who does not know that sentences start with a capital letter and starts with a small letter _twice,_ this is quite rich, boy. ^^
I am not a native english speaker, what's your excuse? Too many brain cells drowned in alcohol, Eddieboy?
@@LSPD1909 And what the fuck is your problem? Somebody hurt you?
I guess he agreed with them... they hadn't been properly trained, and he knew it.
Major Hogan: ‘Sharpe?’
Sharpe: ‘Yes, sir?’
Hogan: “Don’t show off, Sharpe.’
Inspecting another officer's men. Now that's soldiering.
well it turns out another man inspected sharp's wife.
@@TentaclePentacle having the sheer brass balls to inspect Sharpe's wife - Now THAT'S soldiering.
@@TentaclePentacle Inspect? Thought such was called philandering or hostile take-over.
@@benx6264 lol.
007: “My name is Bond, James Bond.”
006: “My name is Sharpe, Major Sharpe.”
Sharpe would beat the shit out of Bond
@@engasal and why would that be lad? Because he was him once. He knows all the tricks in the book. Because he completed his soldering 101
@@twintailMedia Don't call me 'lad'. He was not Bond. He was Trevelyan, a more determined man beaten by the plot
@@engasal clearly you didnt watch the series. because if you did you would get the joke. but hey comedy like memes are something you kind of people dont understand -shruggs
@@twintailMedia Are you referring to Daniel Craig being in it?
The fact Sean Bean survives this series surprises even me.
Boss Umbra some close calls lol, but he got through it!
Sharpe is so badass that Beany has to die in every role since then to balance out the karma.
One simply does not kill Sharpe
History often tells the story of the survivor. The ones who died would have a fascinating story to tell, and we do not hear it. The survivors might tell a different story.
@@neilwilson5785 I don't think you got the point of the comment.
Sharpe's thinly veiled threat against the Earl is THE highlight of this clip!
Veiled? It's naked, and would have gotten him hung for treason if he weren't the protagonist of a TV show.
@SarSaraneth that's not treason lmao. Kyle is an Irish exile, who left Ireland because his family supported the Catholic Stuarts over the Protestant side.
Besides it's not like Wellington didn't know exactly what he'd do when he got there
"I am the Earl of Minogue but you can call me Kylie."
Sean Bean's character surviving in one of the most bloodiest wars in history is definitely the definition of subverting expectations.
Still love how they went from attacking each other to best friends despite all the politics/cultural differences.
Keily is not a bad leader, just inexperienced and rather gullible, at least where Juanita is concerned. He is excellent in the saddle and can fight ably on horseback; he even RIDES into the fortress they attack like a cavalry hero.
this is a much better portrayal of him than the book, where he kills himself halfway through.
SantomPh @awesome face was talking about Sharpe and Harper
Well first they developed more of a respect based relationship that reminds me of the white officers of the black units in the civil war
@National Socialism that’s a blatant lie, literally google the Harlem hell fighters, one of the few fighting colored units
@National Socialism that sounds like a very interesting conversation…it’s not ours however.
Bumped into Sean bean in my local B and Q last year, surprised he managed to pay for his stuff without dying.
😂😂😂😂 very good
Now that's soldiering
@@ticklebones3238 WHO GAVE YOU ORDERS TO LEAVE YOU TUB OF LARD
He died on his way out.
@@ticklebones3238 he was buying some flux.
Now thats soldering.
"My name is Sharpe, Major Sharpe I'm gonna teach you to be soldiers." If you hear a strange sound in the distance that's just the entire French army crapping their paints in unison when they find out Sharpe is training the Irish.
Sadly these Irish remembered that they were Irish and that there English about.
And then you hear the sound of pissing because they found out Sharpe's right hand man IS IRISH.
Weird i though that was the red coat wimp babies that surrendered when they seen French coming in their way lmao 😂.
@@ommsterlitz1805 Well considering the British won the war with French I'd say the red coats held their ground more than the French.
@@CommisarHood they were running away at waterloo when the prussians arrived with double the number of the French lol
Oh if only they had a bigger budget.
Always think the same. Imagine all the uniforms right, all the muskets correct, more extras in scene, not seeing the same extra officers in different sides, like one of the Spanish officers with Keily is a French officer that appears with General Calve in Sharpe's Siege.
we could do it now but some how half the ranks are black and women.
@@jalpat2272 this is unfortunately so accurate
For a British TV series they did alright.
SeaJayB isn’t it though?
Wow, two and a half minutes before he said bastard
Yeah, must be on a low day!
It's a new record.
Hasn't shagged anyone in this clip either - I'm amazed we never saw one episode where Sharpe had to take an emergency poultice after one spoil of battle too many.
"Bastids da lot of 'em!"
Now that's soldiering.
Earl rides in, 'Who do you think you are.' Sharpe's response (in subtext), 'you may think I need to impress you, but in reality, you're the one who needs to watch their step. For I do not suffer fools gladly, I would even use that silver spoon in your mouth to teach you a lesson.'
Always respect the man that's worked his way up the ranks
It's true. On the battlefield, a good soldier outranks a bad officer. Always.
That entire scene was amazing. Writing and acting was perfect
the accents were perfect ;)
Still one of my most favorite speeches he's ever given.
I love how sassy Sharpe gets with Lord Wonderbread here. "(We've) even killed officers in white coats." :)
They actually get along better, later on in the episode
in truth Napoleon's officers wore all those colors. The Saxons in his service were blasted by the French at Borodino because they thought they were Austrians, both wore white coats.
Fredrickson's black coat represents Westphalia, his father's homeland and natural enemy to the Saxons
Lord wonderbread.. I'm dying, haha.
@@SantomPh Some French infantry units reverted to the white or pale grey of the French royal army, and this seems to have been Napoleon's goal for the whole infantry, but it was never carried through. Probably too difficult logistically. It might also have risked what we now call friendly fire incidents with enemy troops. For example the Austrian infantry wore white or off-white uniforms.
Sharpe gets an A+ for sneering menace and a Z- for tact.
Earl Cailie: "Drill sargent you mean..."
Major Richard Sharpe: The hardest flex to ever flex a flex on a landed noble that it even made the horse say "got-daym!" after Sharpe was done.
One of the most bad-ass, well-written, awesomely-acted scenes ever
I just love Sharpe. One of the best series ever done
“Club the buggery out of the horses mouth” lmao
why would you bugger a horse in the mouth? you get it bit off for that?
*Bugger. I think he means if you shoot the horse, get your shot back.
The funny thing is the horse nodded in agreement!
take the horse down, take the rider down.
@@kael13 What Sharpe is saying here is: you've just fired a shot and haven't got time to reload, while a mounted officer is bearing down on you. So you club the *horse* with the butt of your rifle, making it throw its rider, and then you use the bayonet on the rider. *Then* you might have time to reload.
Teaching soldiers how to soldier. Now that's soldiering.
Amen to that.
2:48 - Horse be like "Hehehe, you funny hoomin."
Alright, you convinced me. I need to watch this series.
These videos help erase the pain of Ned Stark's execution.
“I give lessons in killing, too”
Well, damn.
One just have to love YT's auto-generated subtitles. With those the inspection at the beginning becomes hilarious.
_"Cake fell in the battle... No don't get screw... Did you ever fire a muskie..."_
Almost as good as fridge magnet poetry.
Boromir sure had a weird past huh
That still doesn't account for his Ned Stark stint. Was that before the Ring or after?
@@sir_humpy That was just a weird dream he had whilst high on weird shrooms he found in the groove
His weirdest chapter was his partnership and fallout with James Bond.
Sean Bean is the Eternal Warrior. Every time he dies, he's reborn as a warrior in another world. (Well, not really, but I'd pay to watch a movie or series built around that idea).
i tuned into sharpe because i wanted to see how a war was fought so badly...
"well you've come to the right place"
Sharpe is the Gordon Ramsay of the British Military.
o please someone do a mashup
This is an epic...."there's a new sheriff in town" speech.
"The best person to kill on the battle field, is always the enemy officer" Too true! lol
Edit: The horse agreed with Sharpe about clubbing it in the face when you run out of ammunition/or shot the ball.
@terry waller Well yes of course. It is a much faster pace combat too! You have to take out the most lethal opponent in a quick second decision and the secondaries later.
😂😂😂 "I have a cousin at Horse Guards, sir"
@terry waller Killing goes against nature when you're just wanting to go out and kill whoever you want. These wars are started by greedy bankers, businessmen, elite who make money out of arms deals, death and destruction whilst controlling the population. Only psychopaths want to go out and kill innocent lives because they like to be violent. Killing destroys the human soul that's why we're the only species on the planet that is capable of doing such evil.
@terry waller today you just have to call in the airstrike.
@@lepolhart3242 the only species on the planet that kills eh? I think you need to go back to school buddy
To be fair, if there's one man who knows what makes good soldiering, it would be Sharpe.
"Oim ashamed and disgusted so i am"
"Why don't we just have them all line up together and shoot at the same time?"
General: "Ingenious. You're promoted!"
When you can't hit the broadside of a barn from inside with a single musket and any number of things can go wrong in the woods, you bet your ass they're better off firing in a line.
@@MadSpectro7 tell that to General John Sedgwick.
Light infantry and skirmishers in a loose formation taking pot shots ar you is not a joke...
Ignor them and you won't have enough men left to form your line when their line marches up to you...
@@GrasshopperKelly And the skirmishers that killed Sedgewick were lucky there was no cavalry around to ride right through their loose formation and introduce them to the cold steel of a saber. Lines are important because they keep the cavalry away.
@@thelegate8636 lines don't stop cavelry. Thick lines, boxes and squares stop cavelry...
skirmishing chain=fewer muskets available in the vicinity to shoot while the enemy charges with bayonets. in the time the enemy marches across 100 yards, in battlefield conditions you can get at most 3 shots with each musket with only 1 in 20 chance of hitting an enemy each shot, you need as many muskets as possible close together to do any damage. after that it's just bayonet fighting and skirmishing chain is too scattered for effective bayonet fighting. every time theres a line regiment shown there are always idiots who claim that they know better. even the us continental army mainly used lines not skirmishing. skirmishing was used only at the start of the battle when the armies had not yet formed up and both sides including line infantry will form skirmish chains. once they were ready to charge both sides would quickly change to line formation to prepare for bayonets.
Love that the longer Sharpe talks the more awkward the officers look.
Best part of the TV adaptation 🙂
"Sharpe, stop showing off."
Sharpe and Harper are the best duo to come from a scrap.
It always beat the shit out of me how we ever managed to end up with an empire when all the officers were from the ranks of the noble gentry.
a seemingly endless supply of peasant soldiery, whose lives were not valued at all, combined with industrial power.
@@dont-want-no-wrench That, and some of them were actually competent soldiers and respected their men.
good at boats
The nobles were also neded for the administration of the units. Pesants would not have the required education for that. Most nobles had also training in tactical and strategic thinking
Your commission as an officer was a large upfront investment. If you were competent and got promoted, it would be worth a lot more when you resigned it. Combined with the opportunities for the spoils of war, and the obvious incentive of not being cut down in battle, all served as a decent motivation to not be like most of the officers in Sharpe.
Has anyone noticed that why the officers are always the prime target for the Rifles? Because they're the most well dressed of all, and stands out easily among them.
the 95th Rifles are indeed the crack shots assigned to do such things
@@SantomPh Don't forget the 60th Rifle Regiment as well.
William Bodin that’s how he got assigned to the rifles. As an Ensign in India he preferred to use a musket once battle had commenced rather then just stand around with drawn sword.
As weapons became more accurate and snipers became a thing that became a big problem. Look at the leftenent unirforms at the beggining and end of ww1.
Back in the day the "rules of war" basically stated that officers should not be purposefully targeted both out of a sense of chivalry (officially) and practicality. A captured officer was worth more in terms of ransom and exchange than 100 common soldiers, and wars were (and still are) ruinously expensive, so killing them prevented valuable ransom. Officers were mostly nobles so basically an agreement among the nobility to not target each other, Common soldiers could also tell who on their side was in charge based on who was the best dressed person. In more modern wars officers remove any rank insignia or distinguishing markings and enlisted soldiers aren't even supposed to salute officers when the enemy may be near by because a sniper will then know who to target.
I can't take my eyes off the hat! He actually found it!
Best one yet!
One of the best scenes of the series.
I think this is the longest sharpe wore his hat
Sharpe hits the enlisted/officer divide like a nail
The algorithm brought me back. Now that's soldiering!
One of my favorite clips
MAJ Sharpe teaching soldiers about soldiering, now that's soldiering.
I love the sounds of their equipment rattling around.
One would think the personal bodyguard to the King would be Elite Combat Troops, the Best of the Best of the Mother-Loving Best, and generally you'd be right. But not always. The days of Kings leading the Army into battle were over centuries before this, the King very rarely left the safety of his Capital, well away from the lines of any war his country may be involved in, and more than a few of them actually had little more than Color-Guards manning the gates of their palaces. They looked good in uniform, marched well and stood tall, they could keep the peasantry from being a nuisance, but that was about it.
Incorrect. Karl XII of Sweden was killed in battle less than a century before the Peninsular war, and Frederick the Great of Prussia led his troops into battle on the regular, as little as 30 years before this; he survived many close encounters to eventually die in his armchair.
French kings had an entire "Maison du Roi" of guard units, but the only ones who fought and died for Louis XVI were the Swiss Guards, and even that may have been the result of a misunderstanding. Many of the Swiss spoke little French, they were recruited from German-speaking parts of Switzerland and this partly insulated them from revolutionary sentiment. Officers for some of the other units escaped abroad and some tried to organise royalist armies, but by and large the Maison du Roi proved useless when really put to the test.
In 1917 in Petrograd, Russian Guard units failed to suppress demonstrations that ended with the Tsar abdicating. The best Guard troops had long since been killed or badly wounded at the front.
Certainly puts on a fantastic performance
This book is one of the best in my opinion
Well said
0:09 "No flint," he says as the man's barrel has rusted to the same color as the wood.
At the end though when Hogan sneezed and way Wellesley reacted though I laugh every time.
Priceless.
love these guys
I have to watch all of these again
this was a great show
I love this series
I learned from my dad, Sean Bean actually put together a movie (or series, I can’t remember) about the whole Sharpe series and the parts of it.
"Once, Sir...One day" Unseen flashback starts
Real Compañia Irlandesa!!!
"Let's get down to business ... to defeat ... the Frooogs!"
@Mr Dancy Pants "You're the saddest bunch I ever met, and your officer doesn't have a clue!"
Double meaning is that it's the english that ate frogs it was just propaganda as always to say they were eating frogs but unknown to an english man France isn't a swamp island like there's 😂
“You are my little lads,” he roared. “And I will look after you.” - Sergant Jackrum, Monsters Regiment. Some soldiers are needed to have an army, or else you only have a bunch of men lumbering around.
No one fucks with a Sergeant's guys except the Sarge.
Though Sgt. Jackrum is not a violent man...
@@garybewick4774 Upon his oath he's not a violent man... Love that sentence through the book! Especially when you read it a second or third time.
Love Harper and Sharpe too.
Everybody "Gangsta" till Sharpe throws down "the lesson."
Great scene!!!
Well sir, upon seeing a Sharpe clip in my recommended section I clicked on it; That's my style sir!
What isn't implied in the series, but may well be taken as fact, is that Sharpe had been exposed to Sir John Moore's training methods at Shorncliffe, and at least some of it rubbed off on him to add to what Sharpe had already learnt in India.
For sure. In the books, after Trafalgar, before Sharpe’s Prey, he goes to Shorncliffe, and loves the training but then, Lady Grace dies and he’s very sad, and get left behind when the Rifles head to Denmark. Superb writing!
@@nancyblackett8777 It sure was.
Major Sharpe, now that's good soldering!
I would not be surprised at all to learn that this was Bean's favourite scene.
Sharpe in his bloody element here XD
could almost hear ", whether you want it or not." there at the end
When Sharpe is aiming the musket at the colonel, you see Harper "resting" his firearm with the hammer pulled back and his hand on the trigger.
Just in case the incoming group of officers may react negatively.
And that thing alone should have been enough to let him hang. But, plot armor.
"What! what! men, dodging this way for single bullets! What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
The second last words of Union General John Sedgwick, before taking a bullet to the left cheek.
Can you imagine what Sharpe's boys could have done with literal Sharp rifles? They would have loved them!
To be fair, he was NOT killed by the enemy he was referring to, but by a sniper that was much closer!
@@JnEricsonx i see you in the commentsection of many of these sharpe vids. always hope to see a 70 (metric) ton jumpcapable mech instead of the insect but eh. you always have some good stuff to say so ill eat my disappointment
@@BLACKFLAME4941 I'm not sure of the comparison/reference you're making, but thanks?
God this series is so underrated.
Ultimate pair
I love sharp as a drill sargent.
Now that solidering
this series was sooooooooooo good !
Seen it before but still great.
I didn't know that Harper was an Eyes Front too! That's quite a title :D
Major Sharpe doesn't care who he upsets, as long as the job gets done..... I like it! 🙂
He believes in Equality. Everyone is a basta@d until they prove otherwise.
Sergeant Harper is the best hype man out there
that's a really great scene
class lines well-delivered
Another clip I haven't seen and don't know what episode it's from. Can anyone tell me?
Sharpe's Battle.