Historians have noted that the British Empire was at its peak during the time of Sharpe. Once Sharpe died, the Empire began to decline. As such, it's fairly evident that the British Empire only existed because Sharpe single handedly won every conflict he was a part of.
What an arc his character had. He went from one of if not THE most detestable and cowardly characters on the show to a mad softy who can “stand and fight”. The fact that his amazing actor made that turn believable is truly impressive.
0:30 Simmerson, the man of men, standing to facing the enemy, ordering his men to fire in nought but a bonnet and a night gown; even acknowledging Sharpe once his head cleared Truly a man whose arc come full circle - a character you remember
From interviews with Sean Bean I understand that _Sharpe_ went out at 8pm. It would seem that at that hour 'fuck' was forbidden - we saw this also at Waterloo - although clearly 'shit' and 'bastard' were absolutely fine! He also complained that the pre-watershed restrictions made it impossible to show the battle scenes, and sex scenes, more realistically.
@@talavera9515 I believe he called the Prince of Orange a “twat” as well. Though I’m American and don’t know how ubiquitous that was for British television.
@@stefanfilipovits21 Ah yes, I'd forgotten 'twat' was apparently acceptable as well! I have no idea how common it was on tv at the time but certainly 'fuck' was a lot less common in mainstream society then than it is now. I know the aim on _Sharpe_ was one take only as default, but I'd be interested to know how many it took to get the 'buffle-brained bastard' speech out in the right order.
It is a nice constant of the stories. Kinda like his Mark of military leader. He received it upon his first military outing with the chosen men and retires it into his final foe.
@@2eme_voltigeur652 What was patterned in 1796 can be rebuilt in later years. You can probably even purchase a reproduction one somewhere that was made in the last 10 years. Harper built the sword for him in "Sharpe's Sword" episode after the original was lost in battle.
@@2eme_voltigeur652 The Sword in question was modified by Sgt Pat Harper after Sharpe's previous sword breaks in Combat against French Cavalry. Yes it was modified from a Pattern 1796 Heavy Cavalry Sabre
I just read the actor who plays Harper’s biography/wiki page and he’s FASCINATING. An actor, writer, and producer who was the son of one of Ireland’s best loved and prolific politicians. He’s an interesting man if anyone’s interested.
That last line seems like a reference to Birmingham sword maker Thomas Gill who produced swords in the late 18th early 19th century, whose blades were reported as some of the best in their time. He marked or etched his blades "warranted to never fail" just "warranted" and as quoted by Sharpe "warranted never to fail". He reportedly did not advocate quenching blades in water or brine but in molten lead and tested them by cutting through wrought iron bars. He did make 1796 heavy cavalry swords for both the troopers and officers.
Hm. That’s really interesting. Thanks for the info. I was wondering what sharpe meant by that. I suspected it was a callback to something I’d forgotten.
Someone asked below if Sharpe dies in the books. My reply isn't showing up for some reason so I'll put it here: Cornwell himself has said that Sharpe “dies of old age, in his bed, surrounded by family. I, as his creator, can give him that, and he deserves it"
There are too many memories, too many achievements to congratulate upon, and just too much melancholy over the end of such a great series. Achievement Earned: *A Damn Good Turn*
Leave it to a brit to have his last words be a polite declaration: “I believe I’m killed” Now that’s soldiering. And good etiquette. What’re we going to do without Sharpe?
@@Krushtykon I’m going to start once the series is done posting I think. They have most/if not all of them on audible and I’ll be interested to see and hear the differences between the books and adaptations.
It’s kinda sad tbh. I discovered one of my all time favorite shows solely through this TH-cam channel. I’ve tried Hornblower and while it’s VERY good and interesting and well done i just don’t find it as compelling as Sharpe. One of Sharpe’s strengths isn’t just its lead actor (who is perfect btw) it’s the addictive stories and superb performances from the supporting cast. Hornblower has a great lead but it just hasn’t grabbed me the way the sharpe series has. Yet.
I kind of wanted Sharpe to die in this episode. It would’ve cemented how dangerous Dragomirov was and be a testament to Richard’s heroism; dying whilst defending the village.
Honestly, this battle sequence is better choreographed and has better effects than basically every other Sharpe Battle. Sure, it's not as fun or as big or as significant as Talavera or Waterloo or Badajoz or any of the other fights sequences, but it's refreshing to see some half-decent effects after watching the utter shite that is Sharpe's Waterloo.
I still think the battle at the end of Sharpe’s Siege is still my favorite. They’re outmanned, outgunned, have only 18 rounds per man and a pile of quicklime but they still manage to claim a victory. Desperate Sharpe is my favorite Sharpe.
@@Southern_Crusader Had Sharpe and Frederickson lost, the consequences for the entire army would have been disastrous. I believe it's Nairn that explains it to Farthingdale - all discipline gone at a stroke. So yes, very significant. Also interesting messages about men working together across the lines in pursuit of common humanitarian goals (Sharpe-Dubreton) and the possibility of forgiveness and redemption (Sharpe-Kelly).
That is surprisingly accurate, because horse do not like the smell of sulphur. The cannons ramrod is soaked in water that is full of sulphur from constantly cleaning the barrel. Horses bolt at the smell.
His son with Lucille (she is not dead post Waterloo) serves as a French military observer in the Civil War, observing the Confederates in The Starbuck Chronicles.
Super... hopefully you wrote this having already served your own country, since you mentioned it. If you have, then respect...if you haven't, then, no shame, but it's hard to believe that you would have served besides them.
I'm guessing we maybe have one or hopefully two clips left to go now? Mopping up after the battle, and "Sharpe and Harper ride away and Sharpe stops to look back like he always does". I shall be very sad to see these weekly uploads end - I may have to start haunting the channel's offerings from earlier series which I haven't seen yet.
@@stefanfilipovits21 Me too - it's a bit of a lockdown lifeline. I only discovered this channel in December but it must have been great to be here all through the whole thing.
I've never knew about this series and I have been watching clip after clip for a few days. I think this is the first time I see someone not instantly dying after a sword slash in the gut.
A list of Hollywood/Sharpe cliche's in this singular scene: Sharpshooter in the tower dying to cannon (Saving Private Ryan), Sharpe being injured and weak but still winning the duel by stabbing his opponent in the stomach(Basically every Sharpe episode, including Sharpe's sword and Sharpe's Challenge), Sharpe's opponent doing the thing where he flicks the blade (Dodd did this in Sharpe's challenge, and it's a trope from many other sword fight scenes like from the film 'Deluge'), and last but not least the dude getting stabbed by an ally and just standing there looking surprised (Dodd does this at the beginning of Sharpe's challenge, but it also happens in this very scene multiple times as well as being a common trope in other films).
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The fact that Simmerson went from one of the most hated and detestable characters on the entire show to a mad softy able to at last “stand and fight” is really something. This character was a coward, a fool, a snob, a profiteer, a snitch, and an attempted rapist ffs. What might be more impressive is that Simmerson’s actor made that redemption and every step along the way totally believable.
@@Tapsomebong234 At last glance, she was pregnant with Rossendale’s bastard after his death at Waterloo. The author has never said what definitively happened to her, Only that “her ending would be a bad one”. There is a book called the “Sharpe Companion” that says she died in 1844 but there’s no canonicity to that. Though I’m REALLY glad we got some closure in regards to Simmerson, I’d love to know what happened to her too. There’s a few villains from Sharpe I’d like to know more about.
@@stefanfilipovits21 "Q: What happened to Jane and the baby she was expecting after Waterloo? BC: Nothing good, I hope. (1997, www.compleatseanbean.com/cornwell.html)
@@talavera9515 that’s even funnier when you remember that they’re an actual divorced couple lol. I can’t see Sean Bean being that heartless but still...
The final episode for me felt like Waterloo, while this is more a Further Adventures feeling. Who would actually like to see another reunion episode, something simular to Sharpe's Devil
Dragomirov is bigger, younger, a better swordsman, and he isn't wounded. Sharpe is losing until he somehow wins suddenly and then delivers a short monologue about his sword as he impales Dragomirov with it. Now's that's swordsmanning.
That's a thing about real sword fights, you can be dominating the fight and still make fatal mistakes. Sharpe seems to get lucky often, he fights better swordsman many times but still wins.
Sharpe remarks that he hates Ensigns, simply because they die too young. He himself skipped that part due to being in the Rifles, where there are no Ensigns
@@aaronleverton4221 in those days senior officers of Colonel and below were usually purchase officers who didn't start so young as an ensign. Explains why Navy Captains are (usually) seasoned campaigners who started as midshipmen while a lot of Army officers are mini Simmersons.
Nah, that's Sharpeing. At 0:38 if you look frame by frame he's in the background bending down - presumably to pick up the rifle that he dropped to draw the sword at 0:23 - then he fires the rifle. Then I'm guessing he drops the rifle - Harper seems to be carrying it later when they fall back - so he can draw the sword again at 0:54.
I would be so proud if my kid got bayoneted and said "I do believe I'm killed, ma'am!" I'd be sad too, don't get me wrong. But foremost would be "well, he had good manners."
Killing one of your former men with a sword? Thats not soldering. Wormwood is the second sergeant that Harper kills. The first one was Pope in Sharpes Mission. Both got what they deserved.
I feel bad for Velibor Topic (Dragomirov) every time I see him in film or TV show he plays the same character of 'bald headed, eastern European bad guy'.
Historians have noted that the British Empire was at its peak during the time of Sharpe.
Once Sharpe died, the Empire began to decline. As such, it's fairly evident that the British Empire only existed because Sharpe single handedly won every conflict he was a part of.
I mean Wellington kept sending basically only sharpe and Harper to get shit done all over the world 😂
....That's soldiering.
@@burningforyou6078 Now that's adventuring.
Hear! Hear!
Not only that, but afterwards, future Sean Bean characters started dying!
Simmerson standing to fight it only took him losing his mind and believing the village headman was a field marshal.
LMAO ain't that the truth
I report a number of losses, such as you finally lost your mind Lord Simmerson.
What an arc his character had. He went from one of if not THE most detestable and cowardly characters on the show to a mad softy who can “stand and fight”. The fact that his amazing actor made that turn believable is truly impressive.
That's acting.
@@stefanfilipovits21 He indeed lost much of his mind due to what he had endured.
Yet, he retained enough of his military experience to act here.
Come on lads! Three cheers to whoever has been posting these for us for so long.
Hip, hip, hip!
Hooray!
Hip. Hip.
@@Chase0420 huzzah!
*HUZZAH*
HUZZAH HUZZAH HUZZAH!!
H'RAYYY!
0:30 Simmerson, the man of men, standing to facing the enemy, ordering his men to fire in nought but a bonnet and a night gown; even acknowledging Sharpe once his head cleared
Truly a man whose arc come full circle - a character you remember
The fault was not mine sir! Major Lennox must answer.
@@richarddavis9966 MAJOR LENNOX ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE, SIR!!
Making sure a curse word is not heard by firing a cannon shot at the same moment?
That's censoring
From interviews with Sean Bean I understand that _Sharpe_ went out at 8pm. It would seem that at that hour 'fuck' was forbidden - we saw this also at Waterloo - although clearly 'shit' and 'bastard' were absolutely fine! He also complained that the pre-watershed restrictions made it impossible to show the battle scenes, and sex scenes, more realistically.
@@talavera9515 I believe he called the Prince of Orange a “twat” as well. Though I’m American and don’t know how ubiquitous that was for British television.
@@stefanfilipovits21 Ah yes, I'd forgotten 'twat' was apparently acceptable as well! I have no idea how common it was on tv at the time but certainly 'fuck' was a lot less common in mainstream society then than it is now. I know the aim on _Sharpe_ was one take only as default, but I'd be interested to know how many it took to get the 'buffle-brained bastard' speech out in the right order.
@@stefanfilipovits21 twat is a slightly more acceptable way of saying c**t
Good one
Trying to sneak a few in anyways? That’s so daring
1:53 "I never mind men running as long as they come back."
Courage isn't the absence of fear - it's coming back in spite of fear.
Aye. Indeed.
Everyone fails a morale check from time to time. The question is: Can you rally?
@@morefiction3264 Depends on the roll innit?
@@LordOfGilneas And what your stat bonuses are....
The sword built for him by Harper survives long enough for him to run through Dragmoirov years after Waterloo. That's soldering.
It is a nice constant of the stories. Kinda like his Mark of military leader. He received it upon his first military outing with the chosen men and retires it into his final foe.
Merde 🇨🇵
Sword built for him? It's a pattern 1796 Heavy Cavalry trooper sword ;).
@@2eme_voltigeur652 What was patterned in 1796 can be rebuilt in later years. You can probably even purchase a reproduction one somewhere that was made in the last 10 years. Harper built the sword for him in "Sharpe's Sword" episode after the original was lost in battle.
@@2eme_voltigeur652 The Sword in question was modified by Sgt Pat Harper after Sharpe's previous sword breaks in Combat against French Cavalry. Yes it was modified from a Pattern 1796 Heavy Cavalry Sabre
Getting off work to watch Sharpe?
*Thats happiness.*
That’s gotta be a damn good feeling
I misread the first line as Getting off to Sharpe and figured "ah, true".
Sharpe's final battle. What better way to end it than with...
*Now that's soldiering*
I just read the actor who plays Harper’s biography/wiki page and he’s FASCINATING. An actor, writer, and producer who was the son of one of Ireland’s best loved and prolific politicians. He’s an interesting man if anyone’s interested.
All that information, and no name.
one might say, thats not soldiering
@@angelfan16
Daragh O'Malley /
Sgt.Patrick Harper.
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B🇧🇧 dos
The song based on a poem about his mother is really beautiful. On Raglan Road.
@@suqmadique9762 Hahaha That made me laugh
That last line seems like a reference to Birmingham sword maker Thomas Gill who produced swords in the late 18th early 19th century, whose blades were reported as some of the best in their time. He marked or etched his blades "warranted to never fail" just "warranted" and as quoted by Sharpe "warranted never to fail". He reportedly did not advocate quenching blades in water or brine but in molten lead and tested them by cutting through wrought iron bars. He did make 1796 heavy cavalry swords for both the troopers and officers.
This is why I love this community that has formed in the comments, we each can learn a little something new.
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Hm. That’s really interesting. Thanks for the info. I was wondering what sharpe meant by that. I suspected it was a callback to something I’d forgotten.
literally no one asked but that's because we weren't smart enough to know we needed this knowledge.
salutes, sir.
@@geekdiggy one of my favorite things about watching these clips was the interesting trivia and historical facts I’d learn in the comments after.
Wish I had a pocket knife with that on it.
Someone asked below if Sharpe dies in the books. My reply isn't showing up for some reason so I'll put it here:
Cornwell himself has said that Sharpe “dies of old age, in his bed, surrounded by family. I, as his creator, can give him that, and he deserves it"
That makes me happy
@@stefanfilipovits21 Absolutely - me too.
yeah he apparently died in 1860 at the age of like 80 or something
He wrote it, he desides it. One of the advantages of being a writer.
The writer also says that Sharpe was buried with his sword.
There are too many memories, too many achievements to congratulate upon, and just too much melancholy over the end of such a great series.
Achievement Earned:
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Achievement Unlocked: Boy becomes a man
A boy in a mans army grows old too soon
I shall miss your posts, Killer Joy.
Along the road to come what may,
Over the hills, and far away.
But you still come back to reading/watching it. And it is different every single time.
@@antananarive6298 Yes, always more to notice.
Leave it to a brit to have his last words be a polite declaration:
“I believe I’m killed”
Now that’s soldiering. And good etiquette. What’re we going to do without Sharpe?
Bri'ish Moment
Anyone else remember Lord Kiely when he said that? By the way, I CALLED IT!!!
Achievement Earned:
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-No.
You’ll have to read the books!
@@Krushtykon I’m going to start once the series is done posting I think. They have most/if not all of them on audible and I’ll be interested to see and hear the differences between the books and adaptations.
@@stefanfilipovits21 personally I think the books are great, and surprisingly brutal like game of thrones brutal, highly recommend!
I can believe that it is the last episode of Richard Sharpe. Thank you so much for this videos.
I will miss you all!
It’s kinda sad tbh. I discovered one of my all time favorite shows solely through this TH-cam channel. I’ve tried Hornblower and while it’s VERY good and interesting and well done i just don’t find it as compelling as Sharpe. One of Sharpe’s strengths isn’t just its lead actor (who is perfect btw) it’s the addictive stories and superb performances from the supporting cast. Hornblower has a great lead but it just hasn’t grabbed me the way the sharpe series has. Yet.
I kind of wanted Sharpe to die in this episode. It would’ve cemented how dangerous Dragomirov was and be a testament to Richard’s heroism; dying whilst defending the village.
@@Southern_Crusader I’ll miss everyone here too. I learned a lot and laughed my ass off.
WHAT THIS IS THE LAST NOOOOOthis was the best
Simmerson not running as the enemy approaches, that’s finally soldiering
Being totally outmatched by a villain who toys with you too long, then killing him in an unexpected/lucky exchange. Now that's TV protagonist-ing
Honestly, this battle sequence is better choreographed and has better effects than basically every other Sharpe Battle. Sure, it's not as fun or as big or as significant as Talavera or Waterloo or Badajoz or any of the other fights sequences, but it's refreshing to see some half-decent effects after watching the utter shite that is Sharpe's Waterloo.
I still think the battle at the end of Sharpe’s Siege is still my favorite. They’re outmanned, outgunned, have only 18 rounds per man and a pile of quicklime but they still manage to claim a victory. Desperate Sharpe is my favorite Sharpe.
I don’t know why but the battle against the deserters at the nunnery always stuck with me as significant.
@@Southern_Crusader Had Sharpe and Frederickson lost, the consequences for the entire army would have been disastrous. I believe it's Nairn that explains it to Farthingdale - all discipline gone at a stroke. So yes, very significant. Also interesting messages about men working together across the lines in pursuit of common humanitarian goals (Sharpe-Dubreton) and the possibility of forgiveness and redemption (Sharpe-Kelly).
That's budgets for you
I like the battle scene in Sharpes rifles where the 95th rifles get ambushed
Now that’s soldiering.
Please end the series with you actually showing the credits or at least playing Sharpes Theme at the end that would be a brilliant end.
Damnit I've just watched the whole series again for the millionth time and here I am already watching bloody clips again
“And now it begins”, “No, now it ends”
I've been watching this for 5 years omg I'll never stop
It is more than five(something like 25)years that gave me the way of resuming some things. Life is always like a bunch of battles.
"Oh my. Oh my. I believe I am killed, ma'am." is it the most English death of all time? Somebody call WatchMojo.
You do realise that Hornblower is going to have to be next... That would be sailoring....
love the duct-tapped padding on Sharpe's sword right before he ends it.
Good actor, Sharpe was Sean Bean's finest moments.
Thank you, sir, for your service to the Sharpe TH-cam regiment of supporters! :D God bless!
Hear hear
So Sharpe saved the son of one of his most hated enemies-TWICE in 5 minutes.
And Hakeswell son proved he had more honor than his father
4:45 well done Lance Singh fighting off cavalry men with a cannons ramrod...thats damn fine soldiering
That is surprisingly accurate, because horse do not like the smell of sulphur. The cannons ramrod is soaked in water that is full of sulphur from constantly cleaning the barrel. Horses bolt at the smell.
As an American, I would gladly serve alongside Sharpe and Harper.
Same.
You’ve not noticed that Sharpe and Harper are the only ones who don’t die...
@@tombenham-crosswell9260 Who better to go into battle with. At least you got a better chance with them!
His son with Lucille (she is not dead post Waterloo) serves as a French military observer in the Civil War, observing the Confederates in The Starbuck Chronicles.
Super... hopefully you wrote this having already served your own country, since you mentioned it. If you have, then respect...if you haven't, then, no shame, but it's hard to believe that you would have served besides them.
The way Harper dealt with Wormwood there was savage 💀
Also I love that Barabas and sharpe fight dragomirov together
I'm guessing we maybe have one or hopefully two clips left to go now? Mopping up after the battle, and "Sharpe and Harper ride away and Sharpe stops to look back like he always does". I shall be very sad to see these weekly uploads end - I may have to start haunting the channel's offerings from earlier series which I haven't seen yet.
I’m gonna miss it 😩
@@stefanfilipovits21 Me too - it's a bit of a lockdown lifeline. I only discovered this channel in December but it must have been great to be here all through the whole thing.
It was fun while it lasted though.
@@talavera9515
It's been a pleasure, Chosen Man.
@@justanotherbrickinthewall2843 Very much so. I'll definitely be here next week as I'm hoping for at least one more.
I've never knew about this series and I have been watching clip after clip for a few days. I think this is the first time I see someone not instantly dying after a sword slash in the gut.
I started watching the clips.
Showed my dad harper pulling his tooth.
He came the next day with like 15 books. And handed them to me.
"I believe Im Killed, ma'am." How wonderfully British.
1:37 best Dying line.
It's on par with 'You've killed me sir' said by lord kiely
The Horn of Gondor.
What have we learnt though?
That Harper should be a wrestler.
Dragamirov could’ve easily dispatched Sharpe but made the mistake of continually holding back.
"Just my f.." "..ing luck."
Is there a better line in the series, maybe, but I'll put this one forward for the medal.
It's always the overhead strike that causes the enemies' deaths, during a duel against Sharpe.
"this is a poor and dusty place Balia- ahem, Sharpe"
Dragomirov sure wanted that last fight with Sharpe to be in style.
From what I've seen, as long as you imitate Sean Bean, that's soldiering.
How is Sharpe's shoulder still able to bleed with all that scarr tissue build up.
Calmly stating that you’ve been wounded, now that’s soldiering.
Who wouldn't want to be a soldier after such a masterful display of derring-do
Now this was soldiering
Manning your position till the bitter end? You know what that is!
Oh I know it's.. no don't tell me... .. . no it's gone..
A list of Hollywood/Sharpe cliche's in this singular scene: Sharpshooter in the tower dying to cannon (Saving Private Ryan), Sharpe being injured and weak but still winning the duel by stabbing his opponent in the stomach(Basically every Sharpe episode, including Sharpe's sword and Sharpe's Challenge), Sharpe's opponent doing the thing where he flicks the blade (Dodd did this in Sharpe's challenge, and it's a trope from many other sword fight scenes like from the film 'Deluge'), and last but not least the dude getting stabbed by an ally and just standing there looking surprised (Dodd does this at the beginning of Sharpe's challenge, but it also happens in this very scene multiple times as well as being a common trope in other films).
Major Brand did the “surprise betrayal” thing a few times in one episode
Sharpe to Simmerson: Where was this version of you at the battle of Talavera, sir!?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
The fact that Simmerson went from one of the most hated and detestable characters on the entire show to a mad softy able to at last “stand and fight” is really something. This character was a coward, a fool, a snob, a profiteer, a snitch, and an attempted rapist ffs. What might be more impressive is that Simmerson’s actor made that redemption and every step along the way totally believable.
@@stefanfilipovits21 wonder how Jane is doing...
@@Tapsomebong234 At last glance, she was pregnant with Rossendale’s bastard after his death at Waterloo. The author has never said what definitively happened to her, Only that “her ending would be a bad one”. There is a book called the “Sharpe Companion” that says she died in 1844 but there’s no canonicity to that.
Though I’m REALLY glad we got some closure in regards to Simmerson, I’d love to know what happened to her too. There’s a few villains from Sharpe I’d like to know more about.
@@stefanfilipovits21 "Q: What happened to Jane and the baby she was expecting after Waterloo?
BC: Nothing good, I hope. (1997, www.compleatseanbean.com/cornwell.html)
@@talavera9515 that’s even funnier when you remember that they’re an actual divorced couple lol. I can’t see Sean Bean being that heartless but still...
“Present”(0:23)
“Fire” (0:27-0:30)
2:11 kid on the left is delighted at the sight of bloodshed
Lmao for real though he’s smiling
The final episode for me felt like Waterloo, while this is more a Further Adventures feeling. Who would actually like to see another reunion episode, something simular to Sharpe's Devil
Right here 🤚
when are we getting the "Sir Henry" handshake???
4:45 *Achievement Unlocked* Going Clubbin'
"The pen may be mightier than the sword, but 'giant stick' is still a contender"
Dragomirov is bigger, younger, a better swordsman, and he isn't wounded. Sharpe is losing until he somehow wins suddenly and then delivers a short monologue about his sword as he impales Dragomirov with it. Now's that's swordsmanning.
That's a thing about real sword fights, you can be dominating the fight and still make fatal mistakes.
Sharpe seems to get lucky often, he fights better swordsman many times but still wins.
Must watch my dvd.
Liked the scene at the end of saving private ryan lol
Well if I learned one thing it's that being the young ensign/cornet in a unit Sharpe is involved with doesn't usually bode well for a long life.
2:22 reminds me of a similar scene in Saving Private Ryan
Just another one of Richard's afternoon activities.
Pat Harper still the toughest man in all of Ireland
God Save Ireland🇮🇪!!!
Fighting cavalry in a dress and a sun hat? Now that's Simmersoning.
С серпом это было сильно. Ирландия рулит!
It really felt like selfdefence.
@@antananarive6298 для Ирландии видимо обычное дело.
@@ВячеславЮшкин-ъ8я No, not at all.God save the Ireland.
Я что-то не помню твой серии. Да и у книгах он только с французами воевал.
This is like the 1987 movie The alamo because the main characters are dropping like flies!
Those bandits look badass tho
Where did this battle happen?
Young junior officers always die bruhv
At least they’re polite about it
@@stefanfilipovits21 When you realize that kids matured faster in the past than now.
Makes you wonder where they get the old senior officers from.
Sharpe remarks that he hates Ensigns, simply because they die too young. He himself skipped that part due to being in the Rifles, where there are no Ensigns
@@aaronleverton4221 in those days senior officers of Colonel and below were usually purchase officers who didn't start so young as an ensign.
Explains why Navy Captains are (usually) seasoned campaigners who started as midshipmen while a lot of Army officers are mini Simmersons.
Fighting 1 vs 1 without your men interfering your fight? That's soldiering.
DAMN Wormwood’s death was brutal
Is this part of the Sharpes series anywhere on TH-cam
Look for "northern wolf" he might still have them up
@@SantomPh thanks
Honestly think they wrote this battle after taking serious inspiration from Roarke’s Drift. Besides the 60-year time difference, it makes sense.
which episode or series is this ?
That Gordon chap was a notorious member of the Berkeley Hunt…..
0:08 sounds like stronghold sound-effect
It is the same one! But the one in Stronghold goes longer, so both have taken it from somewhere else.
Sharpe and Harper, less fighters, more killers.
What is a name of this film? I think I've never seen it.
6:06 Is that duct tape on the sword guard or something else?
Sharpe drawing his sword twice.
Now that's editing.
Nah, that's Sharpeing.
At 0:38 if you look frame by frame he's in the background bending down - presumably to pick up the rifle that he dropped to draw the sword at 0:23 - then he fires the rifle. Then I'm guessing he drops the rifle - Harper seems to be carrying it later when they fall back - so he can draw the sword again at 0:54.
Now that’s soldiering
Sharpe's most common enemies would be cavalrymen, since the start of the series.
Really stuck the landing on the final blow.
The Chapel Spire: Me
The cannon: My Luck/Life
One of the most British deaths " Oh my Oh my I believe I'm killed Maam."
Almost over! Wait NVM the last one came out ;/
I would be so proud if my kid got bayoneted and said "I do believe I'm killed, ma'am!"
I'd be sad too, don't get me wrong. But foremost would be "well, he had good manners."
Killing one of your former men with a sword? Thats not soldering. Wormwood is the second sergeant that Harper kills. The first one was Pope in Sharpes Mission. Both got what they deserved.
Я, кажется, этого Драгомирова в фильме Царство Небесное видел.
2:12 Terrible moment
6:06 you can see padding on the hilt of the sword
So the scene of saving private Ryan tank shoot at the tower idea came from here ?
I kind of imagine it came from real life, where real lives were ended.
That's soldiering.
Swordplay! Ceaseless adventure!
Is that gaffer tape on the sword hilt at the end?! Pretty crappy fight choreography...even for the time.
Of course Dragomirov lost. Hes fighting Sharpe, alongside soldiers carrying magic muskets that fire without the flint striking the pan.
You just had to know that the cavalry were coming at the last minute to save the day.
It truly was soldiering folks
I feel bad for Velibor Topic (Dragomirov) every time I see him in film or TV show he plays the same character of 'bald headed, eastern European bad guy'.
Going back to India in Sharpe adventures not in the books?
That's sequeling!