Imagine this with a budget x10, would've been epic. But they pulled off amazing with 20 man groups and story line. Oh, and the Bean doesn't die, always a plus.
But also, keeping it low budget is more realistic sometimes. Most battles like these weren't fought with hundreds of thousands of men, and small skirmishes like these were a big part of warfare.
Actually, those of us with behind the scenes clips, that soldier noticed a thread from this uniform was caught in the wheel of the cannon. A few seconds before it fell he was trying to get it loose.
You can bank on 80% of these combatants having it. However, social norms at the time of this story would only allowed for those most severely affected to be put in mental wards, like prisoners. Out of decency of course, they wouldn't want people seeing what can happen when you watch a cannon ball bounce through your best friends, it needs to be romantic after all.
@@cipher88101 "historical PTSD" is actually a very interesting field of research. It just doesn't seem right that roman or greek soldiers in ancient times wouldn't also suffer from it. Those fights were messy as hell. And there are even very slight mentions of it in literature of that time aswell.
@@ottokarl5427 quite so. At the Defence of Rorke's Drift both Bromhead and Chard suffered PTSI, and one of the VC winners Robert Jones shot himself with a borrowed shotgun years later. It's tragic
Bit easier to be a crack sniper in Sharpe's day: "Wind... 5mph... favour left.. Target... nice bright uniform in the open with zero cover... Range... ooh about 4 yards" 😉
Jamie Evans: it was more a comment on the Sharpe production values. They had a very small cast so had to film battles so close up that it looks a bit silly at times.
I always laugh at this scene. They use the grappling irons and haul down a gabion and cannon with no one around it. Then a random Frenchman throws himself over the wall with it.
@@SantomPh you mean the defenders being overrun by British troops, overwhelming his countrymen and taking the castle that could have just shot or beaten him to death as he charged in to kill Sharpe, you want a cowardly antagonist, look at Simmerson, at least Duco has the balls to be on a battlefield and risk his ass.
The fighting scenes at 4:55 and 5:05 where filmed at the same time, you can see the punch from the first scene happening in the background in the second
Since a light smack with a rifle barrel, the flat of a sword, or a punch always counts as a "kill" in Sharpe, Gaston and Calvet have at least 1 kill confirmed on screen! :D
He spilt grape juice on his leg and hoped no one would notice. A cannon shot went off and he happened to trip over a stone, so they just assumed he was wounded but he didnt want to say anything as he didnt want to admit to the stain. He was about to but the time between concerned men around their officer and officer surrounded by freightened men because he had a stain and fell was too long, he just decided to go with wounded.
that "giant Q-tip" as you call it was a ramming staff, in real life at this time that would have weighed about 15 lbs. and was generally from a "Hard" wood and in fact many a artilleryman has killed an oncoming attacker with one of them,
100mm tube of justice did you really think I thought that you rammed heavy ordinance with a thin stick with frills at the end? The frills were designed to allow for the artillery men to more easily insert and withdraw the ram stick. They also help in cleaning the canon in between uses. P.S. t’was a joke
Most of them didn´t actually die. One musket shot or a bayonet thrust is usually not enough to instantly kill someone. They just became incapacitated, and would lay there for hours, slowly bleeding out, with some trying to crawl away or call for help, only to die a few hours or days later in horrible pain. With this show being mostly on the lighter side, this stuff is generally left out, but they do show it at times.
I think think around the 5 minute mark had some of the most savage combat in the series. I think some of those actors were actually trying to kill each other.
4:20 Now I know getting hit hard with anything that has a small impact area is and decent mass/force will hurt but I think the lad forgot to attach his bayonet cause I swear I heard a bayonet penetrating flesh sound.
I love the Sharpe series, but Sharpe letting Ducos go in this scence is bad writing No real continuity with the established hatred of each other from previous episodes. Also, Sharpe is smart enough to know that capturing a top French spymaster is a huge intelligence coup On the plus side, so pretty brutal fight scenes compared to previous episodes
I think the Royal Navy gave the men a quart of rum per day. Then they'd have to climb a 100-ft mast to take town topsails or something. I think I'd need that rum to do that.
"Pick up the Colours, Pick up the Colours, what do you mean coming on the battlefield with your buttons not done up eh, right, you follow me, follow me" Leading the South Essex to battle, now that's Soldiering
I count two french men volunteering their teeth to Fredricksons collection although the one who got punched at least he won't have the pincers used on him the punch likely knocked them all out
Sharpe: "Want a pint o' Rum Hobbes?" Hobbes: "Yes sir, but what happens if I don't make it?" Sharpe: "Don't worry about that Hobbes, we've got it covered ... er! I mean, we've got YOU covered Hobbes." Harper: - drools.
He is the soldier from Sharpe's eagle who shot four rounds a minute at the training scene. Latter in the same episode sharpe offered him a place in rifles. Just a different actor.
4:38 and 5:05 are basically the same clip but at different angles... which has to have been in different takes, because there's no cameraperson. The safest bet is that the editor either didn't notice or didn't expect people to notice.
The main reason is for command and control. If you spread them out too much, then they will more likely find a rock to hide behind, and they certainly would not hear your orders. Also, the musket fire shown here, and in most movies, on both sides, is much more effective than in real life, and real rates of fire are much slower, especially for artillerists under fire. On the other hand, this bastion, defended with one man every two feet up that rocky slope would likely have been considered impregnable to a unit that doesn't really seem to outnumber the defenders by much, if at all.
Sharpe cunningly increases his rum ration for the day by sending a hapless rifleman to his doom. That's hustling.
No sir… that’s Soldiering!
i see you everywhere in this channel
@@desolate1907 I see you too. Welcome to Sharpeland.
three riflemen
Imagine this with a budget x10, would've been epic. But they pulled off amazing with 20 man groups and story line. Oh, and the Bean doesn't die, always a plus.
What do you mean with "always"?
@@golem5809 Sean Bean's character tends to get killed in just about everything he's cast in.
@@lukejaywalker777 not really, not even close
But also, keeping it low budget is more realistic sometimes. Most battles like these weren't fought with hundreds of thousands of men, and small skirmishes like these were a big part of warfare.
2:42 - Oh no they've made the cannon fall out! I'm going to dive onto this wooden thatch then, wheeeeee! Aaaargh! It hurts!
He had been watching this channel and thought it was soldiering....
This made me laugh, it deserves my like
Actually, those of us with behind the scenes clips, that soldier noticed a thread from this uniform was caught in the wheel of the cannon. A few seconds before it fell he was trying to get it loose.
These clips aren't uploaded out of order, Sharpe is just experiencing PTSD and remembering these scenes.
You can bank on 80% of these combatants having it. However, social norms at the time of this story would only allowed for those most severely affected to be put in mental wards, like prisoners. Out of decency of course, they wouldn't want people seeing what can happen when you watch a cannon ball bounce through your best friends, it needs to be romantic after all.
@@cipher88101 "historical PTSD" is actually a very interesting field of research. It just doesn't seem right that roman or greek soldiers in ancient times wouldn't also suffer from it. Those fights were messy as hell. And there are even very slight mentions of it in literature of that time aswell.
An old soldier only knows how to soldier.
@@ottokarl5427 quite so. At the Defence of Rorke's Drift both Bromhead and Chard suffered PTSI, and one of the VC winners Robert Jones shot himself with a borrowed shotgun years later. It's tragic
I love how active the Sharpe TH-cam channel is
Well said "Mr Goose"
Bit easier to be a crack sniper in Sharpe's day:
"Wind... 5mph... favour left.. Target... nice bright uniform in the open with zero cover... Range... ooh about 4 yards" 😉
And a heavy fog caused by tens of thousands of black powder weapons being fired en masse for hours at a time.
That’s soldiering for you.
You forgot the most important element..rifled musket...check.
the guns were horribly inaccurate even the accurate ones
Jamie Evans: it was more a comment on the Sharpe production values. They had a very small cast so had to film battles so close up that it looks a bit silly at times.
4:19 a bayonet stab without a bayonet? That's soldiering
lmao was like wtf
That soldier is not very Sharpe.
Low key though, that would hurt like a sumbitch getting poked by a rifle in the side. Gotta pop a rib at the very least.
Im glad someone else noticed it. He was like *Boop*
Stealth Bayonet... you can't see it, but you can feel it!
My favorite part is how nonchalantly Gaston is walking around kicking people.
Gaston, Calvert, Ducos provide the most entertainment from the French side . 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I always laugh at this scene. They use the grappling irons and haul down a gabion and cannon with no one around it. Then a random Frenchman throws himself over the wall with it.
Don't forget the part where the soldier stabbed the Frenchman with the invisible bayonet
As they say around these parts... THAT'S Soldiering
Typical sneaky Frenchies! You never kbow where they might be hiding, ready to pounce! 😂
4:18 bayoneting a man to death without a bayonet? Now that is soldiering.
It still hurts you know 😢
Say what you want about Duco, he was no coward. Charging into a castle being invaded by the enemy just to fight his nemesis, that's Soldiering.
he was certainly a coward, he knew Sharpe would be busy fighting the defenders. He has run from no less than 3 engagements before this
@@SantomPh you mean the defenders being overrun by British troops, overwhelming his countrymen and taking the castle that could have just shot or beaten him to death as he charged in to kill Sharpe, you want a cowardly antagonist, look at Simmerson, at least Duco has the balls to be on a battlefield and risk his ass.
SantomPh nota coward. Anything but a coward.
No, that's stupidity.
@@Former_Halo_Fan well you're not wrong, hate, and wounded pride was his motivation. He'd had to flee or been humiliated by Sharpe plenty before this.
Offering alcohol as a reward for risking your life?
That's soldiering!
That was, in those days, instead of drugs for mental health after risking your life.
Welcome to the main draw of the British army in those days, a third of a pint of rum (or whatever spirits are available in a pinch) every day.
No that’s Commanding
😂😂😂
Whew lad
The fighting scenes at 4:55 and 5:05 where filmed at the same time, you can see the punch from the first scene happening in the background in the second
Woah epicc
Now that is high level operating!
Filming two scenes at the same time, so you don't have to pay the extras as much.
Now that's Budgeting
Gaston and Calvet @4:43 tag teaming that guy with a low blow, kick to the back of the knee combo.
What a pair!
"No one cooks like Gaston, no one kicks like Gaston"
Since a light smack with a rifle barrel, the flat of a sword, or a punch always counts as a "kill" in Sharpe, Gaston and Calvet have at least 1 kill confirmed on screen! :D
showing what they did at the gates of moscow
@@twiliblade 😂😂😂
6:25 pretending to be dead by lying down comfortably and checking around you to make sure no one steps on you. Now that’s Frenching
Where did you see that?
@@northernleigonare right side of the screen towards the bottom.
NorthernLeigonare bottom right
2:24 Who are those guys just chilling in the top left without coats?
Actors hanging around for their turn on set, now that's waiting
Appearing on camera before your turn
That's a flogging offense!
The Illuminati
That’s a second time I can recall it happened it won’t beat the guy with the jeans though where sharpe fights loup
they were killed and are now in spectator mode until the next round and the french are the attacking side.
Love that you can see Major General ross' future leg wound at 2:50.
Leading with an injury you don't have yet? that's soldiering!
one of the best TV series for the 90s so well made
I sense sarcasm. I mean there are so many flaws in this scene.
@@zennoix9984 I don't think so, name another Napoleonic series better?
"4:41 The famous Calvet-Gaston double team attack, lethal to France's enemies
I laughed way too hard at this
Sharpe is earning his "killing officer" status today.
2:50 Ross's leg wound starts bleeding before he's actually wounded. Now that's foreshadowing.
You can get shot in the head and you wouldn't notice because adrenaline's pumping(headshots are not always fatal).
He spilt grape juice on his leg and hoped no one would notice. A cannon shot went off and he happened to trip over a stone, so they just assumed he was wounded but he didnt want to say anything as he didnt want to admit to the stain. He was about to but the time between concerned men around their officer and officer surrounded by freightened men because he had a stain and fell was too long, he just decided to go with wounded.
The only time Sharpe messed up. He didn't kill Ducos when he had the chance.
I honestly don't know why he keeps letting him go. Once for honour maybe, but any more is just stupidity
He lets him go because he keeps on getting French commanders to waste their troops in impossible battles against Sharpe.
@@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214 That's...actually a pretty valid argument.
and marrying his second wife
He could have killed haigeswell in the barn when he tried to rape Theresa aswell, content creators pffff
Breaking Duco’s glasses as he reaches for them, now that’s soldiering
The most interesting battle scene ive seen in Sharpe where the French actually fought like French
What do you mean? They didn't surrender at the first shot
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire YUP!!!
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire considering Napoleon conquered most of Europe from 1803 to 1812...
@@SantomPh it's a joke not a dick don't take it so hard
@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire would be funny if you weren't a West Saxon
The deaths are the most entertaining part, they are so ridiculously funny 😂
And on that bloody day, dozens of extras' ankles were broken.
Now that's acting
4:10 imagine losing a fight against someone wielding a giant que tip
that "giant Q-tip" as you call it was a ramming staff, in real life at this time that would have weighed about 15 lbs. and was generally from a "Hard" wood and in fact many a artilleryman has killed an oncoming attacker with one of them,
100mm tube of justice did you really think I thought that you rammed heavy ordinance with a thin stick with frills at the end? The frills were designed to allow for the artillery men to more easily insert and withdraw the ram stick. They also help in cleaning the canon in between uses.
P.S. t’was a joke
That was a fine piece of professional soldiering.
Every single soldier screamed, "AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!"
as they died (some even afterward).
Most of them didn´t actually die. One musket shot or a bayonet thrust is usually not enough to instantly kill someone. They just became incapacitated, and would lay there for hours, slowly bleeding out, with some trying to crawl away or call for help, only to die a few hours or days later in horrible pain. With this show being mostly on the lighter side, this stuff is generally left out, but they do show it at times.
4:17
Bayonetting without a bayonett!
That's soldiering!
I think think around the 5 minute mark had some of the most savage combat in the series. I think some of those actors were actually trying to kill each other.
There was only enough money in the budget to pay half of them.
Tolouse was a particularly vicious battle both in real life and in the story. Nairn is actually killed in the book (Ross is just wounded).
@@jwrockets Heh! They had to hunger games it. Whoever won, got paid.
Loving the bit at 4:20 where the British soldier stabs the French soldier with the invisible Bayonet...
4:18 stabbing a frog with no bayonet now thats soldiering
5:28 kicking Major Ducos in the Nuts Now thats soldiering
Right in the petite pois!
He has no balls, it's just the sheer power of Sharpe's kick
4:19
Bayoneting a Frenchie without a bayonet?
Now that's soldiering.
That cannon crew at 4:13
Achievement Earned:
*RKO*
More of Fireman's Carry Slam than a RKO..... and it didn't come out of nowhere
I don’t watch wrestling. That was the only thing I could think of.
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LOL, the french soldier @ 6:25 playing dead and looks up when Sharpe says cease fire.
Calvet described his men as green as a (lettuce?) leaf lol.
'I'll have that pint of rum for you' Now thats Sharpering
2:50 Ross already got a wound there before the explosion
4:20 Now I know getting hit hard with anything that has a small impact area is and decent mass/force will hurt but I think the lad forgot to attach his bayonet cause I swear I heard a bayonet penetrating flesh sound.
I love the Sharpe series, but Sharpe letting Ducos go in this scence is bad writing
No real continuity with the established hatred of each other from previous episodes. Also, Sharpe is smart enough to know that capturing a top French spymaster is a huge intelligence coup
On the plus side, so pretty brutal fight scenes compared to previous episodes
Ducos wasn't even there in the book, but introducing him so late in the story would have been strange
It can be worse to let your sworn enemy live with the shame of defeat.
4:13 doing Brock Lesnar's F-5 off a catle wall? now thats WWE
Getting shot two seconds later...thats ripe! Damn ripe!
I think the Royal Navy gave the men a quart of rum per day. Then they'd have to climb a 100-ft mast to take town topsails or something. I think I'd need that rum to do that.
Ducos Fighting with a model 1829 Mounted Artillery Sabre?!?
Now that's time traveling!
Doing your buttons up. That's soldiering.
Me and the bois in blood and iron when the campers get too annoying: 3:46
Accepting a suicide mission in exchange for a pint of rum? Now that's alcoholism!
Giving your enemy an eyeglass smashing with your boot? Now that's soldiering!
they had more extras for this battle than at Waterloo. Now thats what I call Sharpering
4:19 First use of British stealth weapon technology ( colorized )
2:40 its nice of the french to help push down the gun, and one even jumped on his back for added effect.
First!
Now that's soldiering
FILTH!
You may not first me sir! I am well aware of the comments and they are well aware of me!
There will be a pint of rum in the mess later...unless you get shot by the French
"Pick up the Colours, Pick up the Colours, what do you mean coming on the battlefield with your buttons not done up eh, right, you follow me, follow me" Leading the South Essex to battle, now that's Soldiering
How is this show so terrible yet so great at the same time? All the incompetent mistakes just add to the charm.
Littering the comments with ‘soldiering’ comments...
That’s soldiering.
Now that's meming.
I wish they would make more Sharpe movies maybe one for Sharpes Devil.
that is too far ahead of the main series to even make sense.
It happens after Waterloo
4:13 AND HIS NAME IS JEAN ÇENA
I count two french men volunteering their teeth to Fredricksons collection although the one who got punched at least he won't have the pincers used on him the punch likely knocked them all out
Now thats dentistry!!
Releasing a captured high ranking enemy spy for seemingly no reason,
That's soldiering
Ahem... a thousand pardons if this has been brought up before, but Sharpe loses his sword at 0:31.
Sharpe: "Want a pint o' Rum Hobbes?"
Hobbes: "Yes sir, but what happens if I don't make it?"
Sharpe: "Don't worry about that Hobbes, we've got it covered ... er! I mean, we've got YOU covered Hobbes."
Harper: - drools.
Volley them Patrick Harper!
Those men just walked into cannon fire....
*Those men should've known that wearing red uniforms never worked for Star Trek landing parties and it sure didn't work for them either.*
Harper must always tell before firing his volley gun. It's a contractual obligation.
Kicking Ducos in the bollocks
Now that's soldiering!
General Sharpe would be a terrifying prospect considering how much the men trust him and follow his lead.
Love the rifle jabs without bayonettes that result in "Auuugh!"
5:57 You'd have thought Ducos would have learned about not mixing Sharpe with his glasses...
04:10 I'm starting a petition to have this replace the Wilhelm Scream.
A Brown Bess can take off man's head, and cannon can cut a man in half, but in Sharpe they all just follow over with ketchup on their shirts 😂
Giving a random soldier a name at the begin of a scene / episode, just to die 'unexpected' a few moments later - That's StarTreking.
He is the soldier from Sharpe's eagle who shot four rounds a minute at the training scene. Latter in the same episode sharpe offered him a place in rifles. Just a different actor.
4:20 some extra bayonets a frog with no bayonet lol
4:18 bayonetting someone without a bayonet, now thats soldiering!
I don’t know about anyone else, but this made me think of the D-Day scene from Saving Private Ryan.
4:38 and 5:05 are basically the same clip but at different angles... which has to have been in different takes, because there's no cameraperson. The safest bet is that the editor either didn't notice or didn't expect people to notice.
Well the title pretty much sums up the premise of the series.
2:24 whos those guys sat on the hill left side of screen!?
Extras, actors waiting for their turn ... didn’t get cut. Whooops...
I never undestood why they advance marching in so compact formation...
Easy target for grapesho, for cannon balls or volleys of fire...
The main reason is for command and control. If you spread them out too much, then they will more likely find a rock to hide behind, and they certainly would not hear your orders. Also, the musket fire shown here, and in most movies, on both sides, is much more effective than in real life, and real rates of fire are much slower, especially for artillerists under fire. On the other hand, this bastion, defended with one man every two feet up that rocky slope would likely have been considered impregnable to a unit that doesn't really seem to outnumber the defenders by much, if at all.
Doesn't this title just describe the entire series?
Hobbs has played a British troop, spanish, Conquistador, they didnt show much french but I guess he'd be there too.
4:15 he stepped on the other guy's foot to make him fall.
Using clever tactics to capture the enemy fort? Now that’s strategizing!
Whats with Harper and his Volleygun?
bruh gaston doesn't care, he's just walking around kicking people.
By Sharpe standards, the British seemed to have fielded every able bodied man in the British Empire for this attack.
Refusing to fire on fleeing soldiers, now that's soldiering!
4:55 Breaking your hand in a Frenchman's face, now that's punching.
Are those Baker Rifles Sharpe and his men are using?
If Hobbs had done this after the 1850s he'd have got the VC
4:12 from the top of the ladder! Bah God!
Who are the 2 men standing by the wall on the left above Sharpe at 2:25
Kicking Ducos in the nuts since you're unarmed? Now that's soldiering!
I can’t figure out which episode this is from. Is it sharpens seige?
its from Sharpe's Revenge
4:12 UNDERTAKER?!
J’en n’ai mare de cette série pro anglaise et anti française cette série et fausse sur tout la ligne C’EST UNE PROPAGANDE ANGLAISE !
4:10 "LOOOOOOO!!!"
To be fair, Hobbs got hit so hard that he went back in time to retrain with the French Imperial Guard for Waterloo.
Using your rifle as a melee weapon.
Now that's clubbing.
Mon micro marche mais je vous entends pas
What music they use?