There's a lot of soldiering packed into five and a half minutes. - Sticking around despite not being required to. - Thinking about a nice goose feather bed. - Picking off the fops from a distance. - Leaving the best shot in the brigade to provide overwatch. - Keeping yer feet. - Enduring the pain. - Not dirtying yer sword. Soldiering.
One thing I like about this series is that during battles, etc. that happened in the cold of a late fall or winter, or even early spring, they filmed in the cold and you actually see the breath of the actors and the animals .vs. doing this in a warm studio and having fake snow! Adds realism to the setting that so many films/videos lack!!!
Blocking an axe with your bare hands, that's soldiering Pretending to be bandits while wearing your military uniform under your cloak? That's not soldiering
Wickham (presuming he's the same George Wickham from Pride and Prejudice) isn't a noble, scarcely even a gentleman. He's the son of Mr D'Arcy's late father's steward.
there were some prime casting choices made in the sharpe series. douglas henshall was as perfect for captain wickham as michael cochran was for henry simmerson. great actors who created impressively detestable villains.
I am utterly convinced that it’s no coincidence that Captain Wickham’s first name is George. I think this is someone partially writing out the Pride and Prejudice fan fic about what happened to George Wickham after the events of the novel.
It's not so much brute force as it is that structured fights with strict rules don't prepare you for combat. They might enhance your blade skills, but on the field there are no rules. As soon as you add rules to a fight, it isn't combat anymore. It's sport.
I think a fitting end to Wickham's speech about fighting Sharpe and Harper "together, separately, I'll beat you either way" would have been" BANG! "Got 'im," smirked Hagman.
We should all have friends as loyal as Pat Harper and Dan Hagman! Also, I have the same sword as Richard Sharpe carries in my collection, a 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Trooper's Sword, and there is no way a man his size was ever going to fence like that with one. It weighs at least 4lbs, and the weight is about a foot out from your wrist.
@MilitaryBronyforlife I was taught to block an opponent's _arm_, unless I had something to block an edged weapon. Harper putting aside his volley rifle (perfectly good as a club/parrying defence) seems such a rookie action after all his years of experience.
@MilitaryBronyforlife probably been fighting in the street since they were kids, hand to had stuff nothing new for the ranks.. really it wasn't till maybe WW1, (using a spade to clear our trenches, etc etc), and the SAS in WW2 did hand to hand stuff become a big part of the sylabus.. would be interesting to see what British soldiers were taught back then.. It's almost like learning to hit long in golf, but never working on your putts.. strange times..
Problem that can come with martial arts is that some people train to get points rather than learn how to fight. Take away glittering halls, flat clean floors, and an opponent that fights past the usual pause points and someone considered highly skilled falls quickly.
Well, nothing wrong with that as long as you see it as a sport. In a "street fight", injuries to your opponent are to be expected. In sport, you try to avoid them. Which is completly fine, as long as you are aware of the difference.
He definitely is a coward, only confident when surrounded by his own men or murdering innocents. The minute Sharpe gets the upper hand on him in their fight he loses composure and swings wildly, letting himself get disarmed.
@@dogestranding5047 I mean it’s virtually impossible now. Especially in the western world seeing as all civilised nations in the west dropped the death penalty
Meh. Letting the guilty waste the taxpayers' money on cushy life sentances rather than rid society of them at the end of a rope: That's not LawEnforcing.
@@jimtaylor294 Life without parole/whole life tariff is an infinitely worse situation than execution. With execution you leave the world and the pain you caused behind it, while the people who suffered have to life with that pain and suffering for the rest of their lives. No, better to let them rot behind bars knowing they'll never be free, they'll have to grow old living with what they have done for the rest of their lives, and they'll never again enjoy the simple pleasures of going for a walk on a sunny day, going to the cinema to watch a movie, have a few drinks with friends, they'll have none of that. That to me, is infinitely worse than execution. Put it this way, if someone did something awful to someone in my family that warrants the death penalty or life without parole, I'm wanting that scumbag to stay behind bars and suffer for the rest of their lives. Why should they take the easy way out and be executed. If I'm suffering due to what that person did, then I want THEM to suffer for the rest of their lives. It won't end my suffering, but it'd make it a lot easier to cope with knowing that the perpetrator is locked up for the rest of their lives and have to live with what they did.
A Stubborn Yorkshireman, An Astute Irishman and A Cheshire Poacher. The Winning Team. The Thinker, The Sensible, and the Calm. I love this scene. I'm a Cheshire Lad by the way . :) and "I won't dirty my sword" Says it all.
Saw the prettified 'Duel-Lite' at the dance. Came looking for the rematch. Satisfying as far as it goes, though I feel I must admit to being disappointed he doesn't visit a kick in the balls upon the blackguard.
Wait... do you think this is *the* George Wickham... So Sharpe and Pride and Prejudice are in the same literary universe??? Will we see Liz and Fitz Darcy grace the South Essex at some point?
Watching Sharpe get revenge on the woman beater is off the charts satisfying. But i bet Sharpe was thinking like Father Curtis "May god forgive me, I wish it had lasted longer....."
Wickham duelling Sharpe 🤺 hit to the shoulder. One point to me. Sharpe grabs Wickhams sword and tosses it away pushing his own blade to Wickhams throat. Wickham 😳
That idiotic fop thought himself invincible because he was a master of fencing. But in the fencing salle, a touch is ONLY a touch. And fighting in earnest with a sword is very different. Reminds me a bit of the movie Rob Roy. The villain was a far superior fencer to the protagonist. But as soon as Roy DID get a hit in, he finished the fight---and his opponent.
not really, that is the main boiler portion they pushed off the rest would have been in the crates for assembly. looks like it was a similar design to the scotch marine style.
it was a fair mock up of the boiler at least, the real thing would have been way to heavy to just tip over. it has to be made solid enough to resist high pressure of the steam. at least 3/4 inch i would guess
@@g3heathen209 for older models not so much. many of the earliest designs were not much more than what we would call a hot water tank. that said. your probably not wrong on the thickness range. modern boilers are close to that but again they operate at far higher pressures than was used in the 1800's. the main determinate would be the ability to transport. too heavy and it is worthless because the wagons of the day have a very hard limit to what they can carry (this predates the rail roads so it's all horse and wagon or boat)
@@g3heathen209 To be honest they did not have a budge, and like you said, it is alright. I just laughed because it looked like a water tank more than a boiler, but at the end day, a boiler is just a tank with a fire compartment.
@@kertagin1 They did their best, but from what I saw it was an aluminium water tank with a spout. But I am being pedantic, you take Sharpe for what it is, good stories on a budget.
Should have just run him through with the law on his side. Now he's arrested he can weasel his way out of trouble!! Most well connected rich people could back then!!
