I've never seen this series, just scenes here and there that RU-vid recommends me. Sharpe shows up and wrestles with some drunks in a barn. Sharpe has a friend with a volley gun and teaches men to shoot fast. Sharpe knows a guy with a mask and a hook hand and a foppish willy wonka war tourist.
IKR. That's why I yesterday went so far as to buy the bluray box set. And a bluray player for my pc. I need to know what happens in between the 5 minutes I know of!
Curiously enough you should check out 'The Frankenstein Chronicles . Sean Bean plays a detective in London just after Waterloo, there is even a scene where his character puts away a green riflemans uniform in a chest.
@Jack Tangles The one who points out that the French had been given weak powder. In the novels, he's suffering from Leprosy if I remember correctly, hence the mask and the hook for a hand.
The fact that they're so concerned about how these French soldiers died is an incredible display of humanity in writing. Few would be willing to humanize the enemy to that point.
I haven't seen this scene before, but it shows something about Sharpe that isn't much remarked upon - he's actually quite smart. He doesn't have much education (but he learned to read and write from another soldier in prison in India) but he's observant and figures things out.
The best part of CSI: Peninsular Wars is whenever Sharpe says "That's soldiering!" the Who theme song kicks in at full volume..."YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Yup. Now to find out who stayed behind to splatter fresh blood over all the guys that died with clean uniforms. Don't get me wrong, I've watch all episodes in at least 3 binge sessions over days each time, but you have to accept it as part theater, part action. part fanfare. What they used to call "swashbuckling."
These little clips are wonderful, seems as though they took all the blummin series down a few years ago.😒 I remember being at University and my housemate got me into Sharpe. We would go camping and then come home and watch them. It was heaven watching these while an adult and also while being interested in the history of this era. This was back in 2011. I watch them all the time still now, it's the best TV programme ever made!! ❤️🇬🇧
MrBogart, I managed to obtain all 16 Sharpe DVDs. It took me about 2 years rummaging through second hand shops. Total cost, about £20. Worth every penny.
That would be one hell of a movie. Each episode is like 1 hour and 40 minutes long, a movie on its own. And there are 15 or 16 episodes. I’d be all for it.
Rewatching this clip you can see the frech soldiers look at their rifles wondering what's wrong when they know for a fact the were on target. Attention to the little details can go a long way.
It's unusual that they're actually concerned and sympathetic to the French dead; pretty sure anyone else would have said, "Well, our boys caught them off guard and killed them. That'll teach the next Frenchman to be wary," and keep marching.
Sometimes its the small things that make the difference in tv shows. Like the way Sharpe, Hagman and Harper all look at each other when inspecting the dead....they know what's happened before anyone else has even thought about it. Small details like that adds to the build up.
If you're willing to put up with science fiction, I can heartily recommend Caiphas Cain as another literary legend. Think of a man as honorable as Sharpe, crafty/lucky as Flashman, but all he really wants to do is hide in his office and not be bothered with all of this nonsense. Hero of the Imperium is a good place to start.
what i find interesting is that we get a platoon sized detachment accompanying Sharpe and Pycroft which is composed of around 4 light infantry men (you can tell by their green plumes and flank company epaulets) and a few of what seem to be fusiliers (marked by their red and white plumes) and the rest are grenadiers ( marked by their white plumes and flank company epaulets) but what i find odd is that such a mixture of companies made into a platoon is quite odd. I'd be fine if they just kept it all grenadiers or light infantry men or just centre company troops but it's very odd to have such a mixture for just a platoon. I'd also like to point out that the fusiliers also seem to have epaulets. now to my knowledge of the napoleonic British army which i have to admit is quite limited centre company fusiliers did not have that kind of flank company epaulet. Now it is entirely possible that i'm just an idiot that doesn't understand British Napoleonic uniforms but i'm quite certain i'm correct on this occasion.
In the Peninsular Campaigns, many units suffered from losses, or temporary incapacitation by disease, or lesser sicknesses. A detachment could be formed out of a "dog's breakfast" from within a Regiment (/battalion); or even multiple Regiments. You are correct about the Epulates, it is possible that those were the only jackets available. Units that were on campaign in Spain looked quite ragged, and some ended up wearing whatever was available. However, it's more likely that it's what the costume department had.
@@TheCoolCucumber A common problem with low budget historical films and series made before CGI became widespread, you only had the extras on screen that you could afford and it was usually way less than what would be required to make it look like a believeable representation of mass warfare. Today those 40 guys would have been cloned and made into endless columns and formations of men with CGI.
@@Floreal78 You can't beat the feature film Waterloo! They borrowed the Red Army or something like it. Now that WAS what French columns and British Squares probably did look like.
Note how he observed and smelled the musket before he did that. He could tell it had been discharged. He could also see the powder pan was empty. The gun was physically incapable of firing, and he knew it. Still a bit silly in some respects, but hardly reckless.
Hmm i thought theyd sacrifice the sheep like this and save the goats for a death or glory suicidal charge. Damn i totally forgot so many details from the series.
@@clonecommanderfoggy682 Yeah, the "sheep" were the people killed here. The "goats"--the ones who would put up a fight--were sent to a fort, the idea being they'd fight to the end.
Open road convenient for a horse charge. On the right, steep slope with trees, impracticable for horses. On the left, rock wall. Most soldiers : let's stay on the road to flee the horses. One contrarian : let's climb the rocks. Also : soldiers can't tell the difference between powder and sand when it's issued to them or when they load their gun, unless they're remarkably bright Britons.
I vote Sean Bean joins the UKs Brexit trade deal negotiating team in the character of Lieutenant General Sir Richard Sharpe. VC. Accompanied by his trusted 2nd in command, Major Patrick Harper VC. Negotiations will be completed in 2 months or there'll be a battle. Now that's soldiering!
Having an issue coz the enemy died in an unfair fight. Now that's soldiering. Just as well he wasn't running SOE in WW2 otherwise theyd have been as much use as a chocolate fire guard.
Yeah... There was a story in Poland about a soldier who did not shoot a German soldier in the back during some skirmish because it would be not honorable... And I thought: yeah, cool, but in the end I'm happy loads of partisans, commandos and other soldiers did not have such concerns, because in the end front or back it is enemy soldier. Not necesirelly evil person, but, in the case of Germans in ww2, serving an evil cause.
@@jeanvonestling7408 it’s hard to shoot a man who’s not shooting at you or trying to kill you, it’s human nature as a civilized man. I’m not saying it’s wrong if you do it though
Just looking at the ground there, I'd urge all of you, if you're ever in such a dangerous situation, not to run away along the road, or try to climb cliffs, but take the obvious escape route, which is downhill, steep, through the trees on the other side of the path. They won't want to leave their horses, and it'd be stupid for them to follow mounted. My advice to infantry against cavalry, is stay in the woods, on rocky broken ground, with slopes wherever possible. Be where the horse don't want to be. Don't run away along a flat road...
Note: In the days of muskets have half your men shoot while the others hold off the attackers while the other re load. I learned that while reading a book about Kit Carson. Even with just two mountain men one shoots while the other holds off the Indians. Also, when running from cavalry run into the dense brush where the horses can't follow. i also noticed the cavalry left the muskets of the enemy with the dead. Muskets were valuable items during the Napoleonic Wars. Lastly, I noticed none of the horses were shot. Being a horse is a very dangerous occupation in wartime of any age, being so big.
Makes sense with countering cavalry. Also none of the horses were shot or injured during that battle was cause the power could barely produce enough force to push the ball out. Also the show hasn't got the budget to create fake horse corpses and they only make the horses fall in water as a precaution to not injury the horses and have less risk to the rider being crushed. Something I just noticed after thinking about how earlier in the episode that Pryecroft was the only character who fell with their horse and it being in a stream
If those Frenchies had working powder, do ya'll think they coulda stopped that charge? Kinda felt they popped off too early and shoulda saved it for a volley. They were screwed regardless, but perhaps this is where officers and sergeants being around to direct the men more effectively comes in
Sharpe wasn't concerned that the French lost here- he was wondering why none of the french got any. Guns are still guns and a horse or a man is bound to get hit in that narrow path.
