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Sharpe Decides Upon General Simmerson's Life | Sharpe
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- Sharpe finds General Simmerson tied to the sun in the fort.
From Sharpe's Peril: On their way home to England, Richard Sharpe and Patrick Harper reluctantly agree to escort Marie-Angelique Bonnet to the hill fort of Kalimgong, where her fiancé, Major Joubert is stationed. They encounter a baggage train heading to Madras, made up of soldiers from the King's and the East India Company's armies, commanded by the young Ensign Beauclere, engineer Major Tredinnick, and Subedar Pillai.
Arriving at Kalimgong, Sharpe and Harper find the entire garrison killed, with the exception of the fort's commander, General Sir Henry Simmerson, Sharpe's old enemy. Strung up naked in the courtyard, Simmerson's mind is addled with the heat and he seems to only speak nonsense, such as "save the harvest." Major Joubert is not among the dead, to Marie-Angelique's relief, but neither are the Company ledgers that reveal what has been stolen from the fort. The Subedar dies.
Continuing on, the train finds a farming village destroyed by bandits, the entire harvest stolen, and everyone dead but a young girl who witnessed the attack. Between what the girl saw and Simmerson's addled ramblings, Sharpe realises that not only were these people growing opium for the Company, but Colonel Count Dragomirov and Major Joubert were responsible for the slaughter in the village and at Kalimgong, using bandits as scapegoats.
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Wellington: "You have three choices: you can hide in England, be a hero in Spain, or sunbathe in India. I will help you get a tan."
And a tur'ban.
On first engaging the blistering sun, I lay in it with no sun factor on, that's my style sir!
*Deep, cold, barely repressed rage stare*
Very good !
Wellington: "I have here a report from the sun that somewhat differs from your account Sir Henry".
Sir Henry: "With all due respect, the sun is merely a ball of fire".
Wellington: "The suns coat buttons up over a number of duties".
The fault was not mine sir! Major Sunhat must answer n
MAJOR SUNHAT ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE!
- "This is a report from Major Sunshine which differs somewhat from your account, Sir Henry."
- "Major Sunshine is merely a main-sequence star, sir."
- "Major Sunshine’s coat buttons up tight over a number of other duties, Sir Henry. Major Sunshine reports a number of losses, Sir Henry. He says you first lost your head, when instead of putting on a sunhat, you went without it. He says you then lost your nerve and ran from a small Sunglass Hut. He says you lost your towel, your bathing suit and two bottles of water. He says you then lost your sense of honour and destroyed the beach cabana, cutting off shade for a beach party led by Lieutenant Sharpe. Major Sunshine leaves the worst to the last... He says you lost the King’s Suncream.
That fault was not mine sir, major cloud cover must answer......
@@WNShadow814 MAJOR CLOUD COVER ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE, AS YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD ANY SENSE OF HONOUR!! You lost the Suncream of the King of England!
@@Jeffko78 I have a cousin at climate control sir, and I have friends at the weather channel
@@WNShadow814 He who loses the King’s Suncream, loses the King’s friendship. You have two choices, either peel in England or wear proper SPF in Spain. I shall help you to wear SPF.
@@Jeffko78 now look here, you both dip into my sun loungers. Those loungers are now closed as long as Sharpe struts about sneering with his new tan!
Sharpe is so badass he even managed to keep Sean Bean alive.
Playing Sharpe is the reason Bean now has to die in pretty much every movie hes been in since.
Now that's soldiering !!
His death in everything else helps maintain the illusion of sean beans mortality
@@davidtuttle7556 - Which is doubly hilarious because he's supposed to die in the Silent Hill film series (his character, Harry, is explicitly said to be dead in the first film), and yet he somehow survives Revelation 3D.
@@crazyrabbits Never viewed Silent Hill. I’ll have to check it out.
General Simmerson became General Simmer-In-The-Sun
GOD DAMMIT
😂 He'll need a extra bleeding after that.
now THAT'S soldiering!!!
You are goin to Hell for that one 🙂
kek
Simmerson appears in only two novels and is mentioned in a third. Michael Cochrane turned him into such a fan favorite that he got to play him in five Sharpe productions.
"Well sir, upon first sighting the new material, I inserted myself into it. That's my style sir!"
"I have a cousin at HarperCollins Publishing, sir, and friends with the Cornwells"
Everybody loves someone to hate in a good story, and Michael Cochrane ensured that Simmerson was every bit that person!
@@schubertuk I think Bernard Cornwell is on record as regretting killing off Obadiah Hakeswill at the end of 'Sharpe's Enemy,' saying that a good antagonist is priceless.
He's such a vicious, unprincipled arsehole lol
"Sweetest name in all the world" I'm surprised Sharpe didn't fall down in hysterical laughter at that.
Too stunned to know what to say.
@@forlornhope7121 Major Sunburn must answer
I always liked the scene at the end of this film where Simmerson thanks Sharpe and wishes him well... and Richard can't believe what he's hearing 🤣
When Simmerson offers his hand, the look on Sharpe's face is priceless. He was utterly lost for words.
Loved that scene. Simmerson was so genuine too. Sharpe, well, he was speechless.
Aye, a shock indeed. Even the vilest and weakest of men can on occasion rise to be decent.
It's kind of the face Kong makes when godzilla uses his breath to supercharge the ancestral axe
In the books, Sir Henry, despite his earlier wicked ways, was a loyal ally of Sharpe from that point on, and eventually a friend.
"But he's MY stupid malicious bastard - and I say he lives.
"
That is not only soldiering, it's being the bigger man. I hope Sharpe doesn't come to regret it.
What is the point in being the bigger man, if it so often leads to regret?
How much evil could be prevented if Sharpe (or others in similar circumstances) got over their scrupples and just shot the bastard?
@@richardmoore5347 That's a fair point and I tend to agree, but when all is done we have to live with ourselves. I'm missing the context here as I have not seen the full episode, but by this stage in his life Sharpe has had experience of a different world, one where he didn't have to be alert for kill-or-be-killed every single minute, and that perhaps allowed him to develop aspects of his personality which could not mature while on campaign.
@@talavera9515 I would agree with the assessment of character maturity on the part of Sharpe (probably why he chose to not shoot him), but after what we have all seen of Simmerson (Sharpe included), he is the type of person who is arogant enough, and vindictive enough to try to ruin Sharpe for saving his life (shame, or some such reason).
An enemy like that is dangerous to be left alive, and Sharpe most of all should realize that.
@@richardmoore5347 I'm sure you're right, and I look forward to finding out what happens next. At the same time though, I've only just discovered this little community and these uploads, and I don't want it to end too soon!
@@talavera9515
Appreciating our motley group and making a major event from the series a part of your screen name?
That's soldiering.
I actually liked the way things ended between Simmerson and Sharpe... it was actual growth on the part of the Simmerson character...
"Sweetest name in all the world". Even being his enemy hearing his name gave him joy that he had been saved. Sharpe also had a familiar attachment to Simmerson and felt sorry for him. They were on the same side.
You may say the ground is tied to me by rope. Is it a tie of rope to tie my tongue and deprive a sunburned man of water? No sir.
Now thats funny !!! and rather slightly clever - good show
The newly gazetted Captain Hindi Sun.
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brill comment :)
THE SUN ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE AS YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD ANY SENSE OF HONOUR!!
And Simmerson thought the worst thing that, could happen to him was being beaten in a sword fight with an Irish priest. 😆
In my personal head-canon, the Irish priest visited him just before Sharpe. "Just droppin' by to say a word, and glory in this beauty of a daybreak, eh Henry? Anything you want to say to our Lord the Redeemer"?
Sharpe is right, too. Killing in battle is one thing, killing for your own satisfaction is another. You have to be able to live with yourself at the end of the day.
He did take a shot at the prince of orange.
@@richtheunstable3359 that was at battle, so its fine
Dammit all he needed was for someone to bleed him and he would be up and at em in no time.
As a man of science, I would only bleed him if he exhibited Marthambles.
Whilst your doctoring is not soldiering, it IS ripe. A lashing always brings on a spleen don't you find?
Let him again dammit!
@@TheMicroTrak Pretty sure everything under the sun was 'exhibited' already.
"A good flogging will make Simmerson a better solder" - Simmerson
"With no more adversaries in sigh, I decided to challenge the sun to a staring competition, rudely interrupted by Mister Sharpe, sir."
I love how after Simmerson takes a sip of water he says "Oh praise God! Sweet Jesus have mercy... meeeerrcyyyyy". A most detestable character indeed, but not without his redeeming qualities.
It is only a tiny percent of the populace that is truly evil and beyond redemption, but only a small percent that ever get a chance at redemption under the right circumstances
Rotting in the sun to die of dehydration for a few days tends to force one to realize your sins and regrets.
Sean Bean actually surviving through a show, now that's soldiering!
A feat only repeated with the Silent Hill movies with Bean somehow surviving both. haha
There was a second Silent Hill movie?
@@protoculturejunkie ~ Silent Hill: Revelation was the title of the sequel. Came out in 2012, with Bean starring (and surviving!) along with Kit Harrington aka Jon Snow along for the ride.
Now that's being the title character..
An interesting open world game based on dark souls?
That's Elden Ring!
Major Lennox won't be able to answer for this one.
Hmmm its different but Mayor Lennox didnt die in Sharpe's Eagle?
@@bartoszpinczewski3346 that's the joke my friend
@@garvendreis1685 oh ok i understand
@@bartoszpinczewski3346 yes because of Simmerson’s incompetence. When Simmerson said to Wellington that Lennox should answer for the lost of the King’s Colours , an enraged Wellington brilliant replied: “MAJOR LANNOX ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE, AS YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD ANY SENSE OF HONOR!!!”
@@edipires15 yeah I remember this scene
No clothes on your body, an equatorial sun that's high in the sky, and a firm platform to lie on ... that's sunbathing!
Lol!!!
Tropical sun
That look on their face when they walk into the fort like "Ohhhhhhhh.... we're gonna be burying bodies for a month."
Simmerson!
If a hero is only as good as he nemesis then we k ow why this was such a great series. Bean and his men were super, and the villains were so well played.
This somehow feels more healthy than binge watching Sopranos clips.
Quasimodo predicted all this
@@jamesdonoughue4557
I guess you could say...
He had a...good hunch
Just remember, you still kick up to borko.
@@gregoryborton6598
The don borko I spit on his legacy.
lmao I saw a "that's soldiering meme" in a sopranos comments section recently.
Simmerson, that's what you get when you lose the Kings Colours.
Leaving a brit out in the sun like that is just cruel
Wonder if Simerson has ever gone to Ibiza or Magaluf for that matter.
You kidding? We do this to ourselves every summer. It's a national pastime.
Don't call them Lobsters for nothing!
@@ryans756You can see the sun in London?
Of all the hells and all the demons that follow Sharpe, Simmerson is the one that he can't get rid of.
So true
I feel like by then of the book, he'd found peace and justification . His last enemy settled, has money to live, a family and position, respect and friends earnt by sticking to his sense of honour.
If you reverse the names, you have the same situation.
probably the most underrated series of all time. FANTASTIC work
It was very highly rated when first shown here in the UK.
It's the writing, including the attention to detail. The acting is good too. Just needed a much larger budget. It's in the small scenes --- in offices, in tents, between less than 5 actors that the show really shines.
Simmerson: I'm done on this side, roll me over like a good chap will you?
Sharpe: "So now I'm a rotisserie, is that how it is?"
@@starguy2718"Sharpe's Rotisserie"
@@ethanguest3438 Sharpe's Rottisserie, 1st Battalion of The Kings Household BBQ Regiment.
Sharpe may have rose from the "rabble" of the enlisted, but he has always shown himself to be a man of duty, honor and bravery. The very things Henry Simmerson is totally lacking
Sean Bean did for period drama what Daniel Craig did for James Bond. Brilliant acting, gritty and raw and just damn good entertaining.
Turn a great set of films into bland boring generic action films?
Daniel Craig was so Simmerson's Lieutenant, a man by name of Berry.
Daniel craig was one of the worst bonds....
No Craig ruined Bond
@@joperhop Saved a vile series from the trash and made them worth watching is more like it. best Bond of them all.
the ending when simmerson and sharpe shake hands and call each other "Richard" and "Sir Henry" is one of my favorite scenes.... and when sharpe tells sir henry that the village leader is the prince regent! lol
Yeah i remember it. Its sad but this Series will end soon:(
@Movegas1 yeah. You have right
@Movegas1 your probably right
When Simmerson offers his hand to Sharpe I find the look on his face so funny. It's as if he doesn't know what to make of the situation!
Not applying Factor 50. That's soldiering.
Simmerson's soldiering tho xD
@@Justicegamingandco He's smouldering.
3:36 Actually a smart move, not unlike how one shouldn't plop a full Sunday roast in front of someone who's been emaciated for weeks. Overdo their replenishment, and they'll either barf it all back up from the sudden shock to the body, or trigger a heart attack/shock.
or drown in the case of water
Heard that's what's happened after WWII , when the concentration camps were liberated, some of the poor souls died because they were given to much food too quickly, at the time they didn't know you had to slowly build them back up again, so their bodies could cope .
@@sarahudson108 thankfully, that didn't happen too much before word got around
also, fortunately, some people did know about that before hand.
@@sarahudson108 --Yes. They saw they were starving so gave them K rations which they had a lot of. People started dropping dead of heart attacks. I was told this happened in Dachau by a relative who was there in the US army.
@@sarahudson108 No, at the time people did know that. Just the average GI didn't. Once the medics got wind what was happening they put a quick stop to it.
Sharpe showed more mercy than I would have for Simmerson
Ha-Ha! Then - Sir - you hadn't read the script! ;-)
@@georgebuller1914 And what was in that
@@Lightingwarrior Good Lord Sir, are you a nincompoop? - 'Tis whatever occurred in this piece of theatre!
@@georgebuller1914 not everything that is in a script appears smart ass as often enough stuff is taken out or removed from script when filming. Furthermore ur comment makes no sense since it doesn't change the point l made which was Sharpe showed more mercy to one of his most hated enemies than most people would and more than he deserved
@@georgebuller1914 Are you having a stroke?
What do you know, Simmerson just needed a vacation
Lol he looks just like I did after a whole day out on a catamaran where I forgot sunscreen
Sharpe is for the British Army the same character that Hornblower is for Royal Navy...
Achievement Earned:
*What Would Jesus Do?*
Seriously, I could count the amount of people who show that kind of mercy on a single hand.
Achievement 2:
Better the Devil you Know
Who can you trust?
@@cudwieser3952 That’s a good one... this is why I like this community.
I'm always amazed when I see that interview where Bernard Cornwell says Sharpe is not an honourable man. He absolutely is.
@Tala Vera95
You know how many war crimes and traitorous acts. He’s dressed in enemy uniforms, acted like a medic, used chemical warfare, and stabbed others in the back. He does what he must to win no matter how dishonourable, nothing more than what’s needed but still dishonourable.
I guess he lived up to his name,
Left to simmer in the sun
Piecing together all these bloody clips to make sense of an entire episode, now that’s soldiering!
That's A-clips-Ing
A pale white guy tied down in the Indian sun. Doesn't get even the slightest bit burned.
That's WASPing.
You get dross from dross! But no tan from the sun
I call that genuine whitewashing...
They do make it look like he's got blistering beginning around his eyes.
Im pearly white, only time i got burned so bad i got blisters around my eyes was when skiing in the mountains for 8 hours straight in the sun and blistering multi-phased laser(sunlight) that reflects of the snow
They most likely didn't have the budget for a more realistic effect.
Thats got to be the most savage thing Simmerson has ever done to Sharpe.
After all he's put Sharpe through, he doesn't even remember him, thats like saying "you aren't even worth remembering" in the most profound way.
No, simmerson can't remember sharpe because he has sunstroke.
It's clear from the fact that he's raving mad and thinks he's probably dead or something.
sun stroke and dehydration makes your brain function less
@@bakatzen6243 Tbh Simmerson's brain always functioned less.
Later on, Simmerson recovers enough to remember Sharpe and thanks him for saving his life. It’s quite a touching resolution to their story.
Simmerson was actually only there for about 5 minutes. He was just burned and driven mad because he's a Brit.
And yet they go out in the midday sun 😕.
Sir Henry Simmerson simmered in the sun 😂😂
Not only did he lose the Kings’s Colors, but he couldn’t gain an once baking in the Indian sun.
The question of how the fort fell was answered seconds after the discovery of who was in command.
He's a stupid malicious bastard but he's my stupid malicious bastard.
Even if he lost the king's colours.
And his reds
Sharpe may be a rogue but its Lord Wellington's rogue.
And try to blame his incompetence on Lennox who answered with his life because he has no sense of honor! Also because he tried to rape that Spanish nun
To be saved by the newly gazetted Captian Gibbons?
Well he does have a cousin at horse guard
Simmerson became a nice guy after suffering heat stroke. All it takes for attitude readjustment is to almost die in the sun staked to the ground.
What a great series! Awesome actors! Outstanding crew!
Major Hogan reports a number of losses, Sir Henry. He says you first lost your head and instead of putting on your suncream, you discarded it. On sighting a small glint of sun, you removed your clothes before panicking and also removing your hat, effectively cutting off any chance of escaping without sunburn. He says you lost two boots, two stockings a tunic and your breeches. Major Hogan leaves the worst till last. You lost the sunglasses of the King of England.
The fault was not mine sir. Major umbrella must answer.
@@Shadowdoc26 Major Umbrella answered with the very fabric of his life, as you should have if you'd had any sense! You disgraced your self, Sir! I'm surprised you weren't found lying in a pool of your own excrement, Sir! You will answer!
You will be demoted to Ensign. If I wipe your nose in it, I shall gain great delight. I shall appoint you to serve as Major Sharpe's Aide de Toilette. You will wipe and wash. Major Sharpe put up a good defense of the fort, I shall promote him to Col.
This is not a Sharpe canon story. Nevertheless it is my favorite Sharpe TV film. The decision to have Sharpe save Simmerson's life was pure genius. The cherry on the cake was to have Obidiah's son as a heroic character. Pure TV gold!
Saving your enemy? That's redeeming
Being tied up naked in the scorching sun? That's Simmersoning
Laying out naked during the day?
That's sunbathing.
The last line with auto-generated captions is hilarious.
A near death experience can change a person - Simmerson nearly went mad and couldn’t comprehend his surroundings
The fact he recovered enough to realize who had saved his life and even thanked Sharpe, shows a little redemption
His actions of the past are unforgivable, but accepting it as much his as is ours - he is only human, we can not truly be flawless and that is what makes a great character
Sharpe was not a perfect soldier or officer - he slept around with women, abandoned his daughter (if I’m incorrect, tell me it’s been a while), and more in occasion overstepped his bounds
So is Simmerson. That’s why we hated him so much - we see his flaws
Which is why when Simmerson apologizes to Sharpe and shakes his hand, it comes off as a surprise; but Simmerson wasn’t the only one who needed to change
Sharpe needed to too, he nearly beat Haikswel’s son to death, solely because he was related to an old enemy who killed his wife - the son carried the sins of the father - even though he wasn’t the one who killed Sharpe’s wife
Sharpe needed to forgive too
He didn't abandon his daughter. He left her with teresa's family in spain. The family was well off and could provide a far better life that a simple soldier could.
Yeah, the Moreno family was upper middle-class at least. Sharpe made the best arrangements he could for her, given the limitations of the age.
That foreign legion fort was one of my favorite places in FarCry 2.
Forgetting the final vowel in a main character's name. Now that's misspelling.
No need for E!
At least he was trying to get a bit of colour in the sun instead of losing them for a change.
I love how the comments section on every Sharpe vid you can find the following three types of comments.
1: Variations on the "That's Soldiering!" line.
2: Variations on the "That's my style, sir!" line.
3: Observing that Sharpe is one of the precious few characters to survive being portrayed by Sean Bean.
Simmering in the hot summer sun with no sunscreen on, now that's simmersonning!
Honestly, how much difference does placing the men I skirmish order make when there's only 3 of them?
And the Colour Sargent is carrying his rifle at the end of his arm in no way ready to fire it.
I hope Simmerson was wearing his factor fifty?
A man who loses the King's colours has no sun cream
@@henrygaervell3251
You lovely bahstid!
Loved this series
Hasn’t been staked out long during the daylight or he’d be burnt red.
Good point. Either the perpetrators are not far away or the budget wouldn't run to a bit of red makeup. Though once he's in the Infirmary they do show his face as being sunburnt.
Looks more like a weekend by the pool in Benidorm!
Getting strung out naked in your fort surrounded by your dead troops to die in the sun, only to be saved by the man whom you tried to frame for losing the Kings Colors and belittled at every step....now that isn't soldiering, that's KARMA.
Lying out in the baking heat all day, disdaining the use of sun cream. Now that's smouldering. 👍
"You had the bridge blown, and Major Lennox was shot in the back as you ran away. A hero at a thousand paces."
"I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it."
"You don't remember?"
"For you, the day Simmerson visited your 95th rifles was the most important of your life, but for me it was Tuesday."
In Sharpe's eyes,the greatest torture for a man like Simmerson is forever letting him live with the knowledge a once common soldier raised through the ranks saved his life.
Tied down getting heat stroke, now that's soldiering!
Simmerson was such a delightfully slimy creep you couldn't help but love the actor that played him.
b4:09 "Sweetest name in all the world." I know he's raving, but still points to him for having humility when begging for mercy. I'd have spared him.
That big bald soldier looks like its the extra from extras who took andy out to dinner
I love Sharpe 💕
Well that put the simmer in Simmerson
I must say the East India company in the show had some very nice uniforms particularly the shakos
Those are the belgic shakos, they were first used in 1812 and at Waterloo.
The general retired from the army and moved to ambridge, if only the residents knew they had coward in the village, Jim would know
Fascinating that both Dr. Clarkson and Reverend Travis fought in the Royal Army in the early 19th century before living on the Grantham estate in the 1910s.
Simmerson's coat didn't button up tight enough. That's proper tailoring!
"As soon as I'd wet my lips I asked for a kiss... that's my style sir!"
Perhaps simmerson reccognised that sharpe was his saviour
By God this will not do. Now go out and find a real gentleman to save my life
The Soldier at 2:26, wasn't he in the first episode of Sharpe as a Seargent in the 95th? He was sleeping outside the farmhouse before Sharpe first meets the chosen men
doesn't look like him at all
Nope
That's another Small but Tantalizing Tidbit too the Acclaimed Series, I've Heard spoke of & then the Little bits you Give to us on UTube.
Really I should like too View the Whole Series if that were possible.
Thank You for Graciously Sharing Though. May God Bless Thy.
Not sure if any reason was given in the movie, but I liked to imagine Simmerson was spared only because he was such a prick that the invading force felt a soldier's death would be too good for him.
Well, the sun certainly improved the bastard's disposition
Sharpes a good man really. Id have just run Simmerson through and be done with it. Im not a good man.
"and i say lips"
I love closed caption!
Bloodless death, that’s clean soldiering
Sean Bean alive for more than 5 minutes in a movie? Wow!
The big Irish paddy with the bad tooth and mean disposition watching his back all the time had something to do with it I think.
He Survives through this series by dying in every other.
That...man...LOST THE KINGS COLORS!!!!!!!!!
I thought that was Jeremy Clarkson in the Thumbnail
Imagine spelling "Sharpe" wrong in both the video title and the description, when it's the channel name and the subject. Such a Simmerson thing to do.
Did I seriously just randomly stumble upon one of my fav WT content creators while scrolling through the comments of Sharpe clips?!
@johnroscoe2406 Now *that's* Youtubing!
The 'He's raving' soldier - thought that was Jimmy Nail
You can’t but help love Simmerson. He turned out ok after getting seriously sunburned
Now that’s simmer sunning
Simmerson: ''After losing the King's colours, I tried to get some on myself".
I mean, would have a black soldier been involved at that time
The British Empire was a fairly racist and anti-meritocratic place but the British Army would recruit basically anyone willing to wear red and hold a musket. The British army would recruit from the carribean, africa, india and various other parts of the world.
Yes even during this time. Hell Thomas Alexander Dumas, father of Alexander Dumas author of the count of monte cristo, served in the french army despite being black. He rose to the rank of Divisional General despite being born a black slave.
fetch and carry eh?
fetch and carry me some water!
Which episode is this?
There are twenty books to be read... prepare to lose many hours buried in Sharpe's wars. It's worth every minute!
Simmerson fails at every turn and gets promoted to general. Talk about failing upwards.
East India Company probably just bills him for lost colors.
Like Biden on Air Force One !
I can't speak for the EIC, but in the British Army they were still purchasing commissions and promotions...I bet Simmerson bought every officer rank from Ensign to General...
Early example of The Peter Principle.