8:22 you can see the one legged Sgt's leg tied up behind his back :P Great series not knocking it, I'd just forgotten seeing this when watching Sharpe's Regiment on the DVD, still my favourite episode.
Not an expert by any means, but I could think of a few good reasons for it. For one, keeps you facing and firing at the enemy, so they can't just harass you without opposition. That would be particularly bad if they had cavalry to chase you with. Also keeps discipline, stops the retreat from turning into a panicked mob who trample each other and get even more men killed, if not breaking the cohesion of the whole army and turn a mere retreat into a rout where everyone runs for the hills.
Carline wasn't doing his job. He was the duty officer, it was his duty to enforce army rules and regulations as well as standing orders. The men were unshaven, untidy,their uniforms in an abysmal condition. There's no guard mounted at the gate; anyone could have walked on and Mr Carline would've been none the wiser. One can assume that the billets they were staying in were a complete hole without a sergeant major to take charge.
your got to love sharpe having a go at other officers especially stuck up captains who once they see sharpe seem to have a bad smell under there nose, let alone posh ones like carlin, who seems to think that the lower classes are beneath him, and how dare this person come into my barracks and speak to me, well this is a mistake that he wont make again, and if carlin thinks sharpe is a nobody and yet is a major so out ranks him, wait until he becomes a colonel and no doubt carlin will still be a captain, and if there is a god in the world then he died at waterloo.
i think you'll find napoleon expected safety when he reached moscow but instead arrived to find it in flames with no water avaqilable & all the fire wagons destroyed, then he was harried by cossacks right through to flanders. So actually it was both that helped - learn your history
@bfahren That's the point, by rank he isn't a common soldier anymore, he's an officer. I think for a man who had to earn it and will never be fully accepted as one, he would proudly display his rank regardless of the state of his uniform.
i think you'll find napoleon expected safety when he reached moscow but instead arrived to find it in flames with no water avaqilable & all the fire wagons destroyed, then he was harried by cossacks right through to flanders.
@@lawsie69 one thing that i`ve always loved about watching the sharpe dramas, and especially in the first few episodes, was all the beautiful ladies, and there seemed to be at least one, in every episode,
@choconibletbeans I tihnk theres a few documentries out there, i cant rmemeber the name but they generally follow the lives of specific soldiers from the different armies of the napolionic era.
the one tactic I'll never understand is the very slow retreat, I can somewhat understand approaching like that to keep formation and such, but retreating like that seems like suicide. Probably is a good reason for it, though
@neckronn99 Ah American eh, Canadian here, so the Civil War has no bearing on us. The most meaningful war for Canadians so far has been World War 1, and also the War of 1812 is popular.
@Fedaykin4321 I very well aware about the Cronology. I was talking more of the late 18th/early 19th Century in general. Also I know that the Colonials did not "invent" the deliberate Shooting of Officers, but the American War was the one, where it began to be used a a noticable Scale. After that you had a Development, a slowly growing Acceptance of that Practice. But even at Napoleonic Times it was something heavily disputed, and though certainly employed, ist was not yet general Practice.
@Fedaykin4321 The Field Officers were in constant Danger of being shot, but, for most of the 18th C. , no more than the Average Soldier was. In Linear Warfare usualy you fired upon an Enemy Unit as a whole, not at individual Targets. Even Skirmishers mostly concentrated on common Soldiers, for the Reasons I mentioned Early. Field Officers were not totally spared, but they were not deliberatly picked out. The American Wars were amongst the first where, especially by the am. Side, this was done.
Most of the reason was muskets had no rifling at this time so we're very inaccurate this the firing in a line with most solders firing high so musket ball drops and hits enemy line hopefully cannons and artillery at time before rifling we're only accurate for quarter mile by experts hence firing broadsides to make more accurate
@MajBlood Well, the War of 1812 would be important to Canadians, esp. since it was the last time Americans tried to invade and conquer the country (sometimes our history is sooo embarrassing...). But several thousand Canadians fought for the Union in the Civil War, and Canada harbored Union deserters and draft-dodgers, as well as Confederate operatives and sympathizers, so I wouldn't say it didn't affect you guys at all.
@MajBlood Well, to each their own-- even if I didn't find the Civil War personally interesting, I'd be stuck with it as a matter of family history. I had ancestors on both sides, and my mother is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution AND the United Daughters of the Confederacy. I have trouble figuring that one out sometimes.... Never mention William Tecumseh Sherman around my mother...just don't.
@MajBlood Bernard Cornwell's Starbuck Chronicles series of books, set in the American Civil War, has Sharpe's son as a supporting character. But I haven't read them myself, since I have better things to do than waste my time reading about some &!@!&!! Copperhead....
They didnt need a bigger budget they needed to get the re-enactment enthusiasts to do it for nothing. Lets face it they would have jumped at the chance Wasted opportunity :( Still fantastic though
probably because the russians lost virtually every war after the Napoleonic wars until the 2nd world war, Including the crimean, russo-japenese, and first world wars
i dont think you can include ww1 in that, they were actually on our side untill the revolution meant they withdrew from it & the russians were still fighting in the crimean wars when we fought the napoleonic, if it wasnt for the brilliance of Kutuzov's at Rouse then they'd of been fighting on 2 fronts when napoleon turned his armies east, the crimean actually ended in 1812 so you need to learn your history
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I love how the Sharpe's movies jump right into the action! None of this talking for half an hour then like a five min action scene.
8:22 you can see the one legged Sgt's leg tied up behind his back :P Great series not knocking it, I'd just forgotten seeing this when watching Sharpe's Regiment on the DVD, still my favourite episode.
Yea the grey sock was visible.
Well spotted! :)
Sargent Major...and he's bloody loving it already...lol!
That intro gives me butterfly's in my stomach every time.
lol its hilarious when pat chases the drummer boy
Not Sgt. Major Extra! We hardly knew ye... :(
Anyone else agree that Ross is just stone cold badass?
legend! awersome for uploading!
the theme song brought a tear to my eye!
The scene where they first met at Chelmsford was superb in the book..
this is one of my favorite Sharpe movies
If a woman sees Sharpe, she knows she'll be in his arms before fortnight is up. A fortnight, I dare say!
Love these Series great job!
We need a sequel to Sharpe. Seven Years' War, American Revolutionary War, Crimean War, or adventures in Sudan and Zululand.
Ross: Horse Guards first.. let them know you're there..
Sharpe: They'll know sir.. they'll know..
Yer this is something that people would see in one sitting, this is becuase they are soooooo good.
Sharpe arrives and takes matters in his own hands.
Not an expert by any means, but I could think of a few good reasons for it. For one, keeps you facing and firing at the enemy, so they can't just harass you without opposition. That would be particularly bad if they had cavalry to chase you with. Also keeps discipline, stops the retreat from turning into a panicked mob who trample each other and get even more men killed, if not breaking the cohesion of the whole army and turn a mere retreat into a rout where everyone runs for the hills.
@Fedaykin4321 BTW, Sharpes is, despite Errors you will always have in a Movie or a Mini-Series, a great Show, highly entertaining and fun to watch.
Sharpe's Regiment is probably my favourite part...
Carline wasn't doing his job. He was the duty officer, it was his duty to enforce army rules and regulations as well as standing orders. The men were unshaven, untidy,their uniforms in an abysmal condition. There's no guard mounted at the gate; anyone could have walked on and Mr Carline would've been none the wiser.
One can assume that the billets they were staying in were a complete hole without a sergeant major to take charge.
your got to love sharpe having a go at other officers especially stuck up captains who once they see sharpe seem to have a bad smell under there nose, let alone posh ones like carlin, who seems to think that the lower classes are beneath him, and how dare this person come into my barracks and speak to me, well this is a mistake that he wont make again, and if carlin thinks sharpe is a nobody and yet is a major so out ranks him, wait until he becomes a colonel and no doubt carlin will still be a captain, and if there is a god in the world then he died at waterloo.
Theres always a man limping around one leg and a musket.
that sargent has the coolest sideburns ever!!!!! :O
i think you'll find napoleon expected safety when he reached moscow but instead arrived to find it in flames with no water avaqilable & all the fire wagons destroyed, then he was harried by cossacks right through to flanders. So actually it was both that helped - learn your history
Ha ha!!
I can see the armourer's foot at 9.22 green socks he he he
bit of a blooper there!!!!
@bfahren That's the point, by rank he isn't a common soldier anymore, he's an officer. I think for a man who had to earn it and will never be fully accepted as one, he would proudly display his rank regardless of the state of his uniform.
Spain.. I'm still only in Spain. I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one.
"sergeant majors dead sir!"
Boom
well so are they ...
i think you'll find napoleon expected safety when he reached moscow but instead arrived to find it in flames with no water avaqilable & all the fire wagons destroyed, then he was harried by cossacks right through to flanders.
As my Russian Language Prof use to say "Russia has two great Generals: January and February."
Look out chaps, we have a badass over here
yes, sharpes battle is missing....shame too. poor perkins lad. :(
Sharpe at Chelmsford is a very unhappy bunny..
@Mrhahahahatim I know, especially how it wasn't filmed in southern California. The series was filmed in England, Spain, and the Crimea.
@keithehlert absolutely. more shows about a better time... it would be great if there was a 7 years war show or something.
they spent the whole seasons budget on asking liz hurley to get her fun bags out.
yes, but it was so worth it, my only problem would be that she was not wearing the dress held up with safety pins.
I agree, one of the most beautiful women ever to grace this planet. She needed to get them out. At least once.
@@lawsie69 one thing that i`ve always loved about watching the sharpe dramas, and especially in the first few episodes, was all the beautiful ladies, and there seemed to be at least one, in every episode,
So that's where they got the idea for the "snake belt" I was forced to wear as a kid in the 70's, I think I've still got the scars on my skin . Ha Ha.
5:22 - If i had paddy shout at me and come chasing after me I'd shit myself and run away too lol
One does not simply walk into Chelmsdorf. Its gates are guarded by more than just Orcs.
@choconibletbeans
I tihnk theres a few documentries out there, i cant rmemeber the name but they generally follow the lives of specific soldiers from the different armies of the napolionic era.
funny...in the books sharpe has black hair and harper's is sandy. In the movie its quite the opposite
Anyone know what Sharpie says to Ted Carew (the wooden legged sergeant) when he meets him?
the one tactic I'll never understand is the very slow retreat, I can somewhat understand approaching like that to keep formation and such, but retreating like that seems like suicide. Probably is a good reason for it, though
Think of it as reverse rather than a rout; a withdrawal in contact with the enemy. If they turn and run, they'll all be shot in the back.
In Sharpes Battle O'Rourke gives him it on the steps of the church I think
hard to imagine they are in the same damn polace...(crossing the rio grande..lol) waiting for sharpie to come back
it's to show that you don't fear the enemy
@neckronn99 Ah American eh, Canadian here, so the Civil War has no bearing on us. The most meaningful war for Canadians so far has been World War 1, and also the War of 1812 is popular.
I suspect that decision was brought about a general defence policy that was out of the general staff's hands.
People always seemed to be shocked about his rank, but wouldn't there be some indication of it on his uniform?
by jove your right.
@Fedaykin4321 I very well aware about the Cronology. I was talking more of the late 18th/early 19th Century in general. Also I know that the Colonials did not "invent" the deliberate Shooting of Officers, but the American War was the one, where it began to be used a a noticable Scale. After that you had a Development, a slowly growing Acceptance of that Practice. But even at Napoleonic Times it was something heavily disputed, and though certainly employed, ist was not yet general Practice.
I'm assuming you mean the American Revolutionary War, not American War.
Is this historical or a documentary on Russian military culture in January 2022?
@nounever It wasnt the Russians that defeated Napoleon, it was the Russian winter.
South Essex apparently takes up the entire Eastern Hemisphere. Coulda sworn I saw a couple of Chinese soldiers there. :D
they get them from all over men joined and they was allocated where they went
This is a great series. How long is an episode? It’s like movies.
An hour
@Fedaykin4321 The Field Officers were in constant Danger of being shot, but, for most of the 18th C. , no more than the Average Soldier was. In Linear Warfare usualy you fired upon an Enemy Unit as a whole, not at individual Targets. Even Skirmishers mostly concentrated on common Soldiers, for the Reasons I mentioned Early. Field Officers were not totally spared, but they were not deliberatly picked out. The American Wars were amongst the first where, especially by the am. Side, this was done.
Most of the reason was muskets had no rifling at this time so we're very inaccurate this the firing in a line with most solders firing high so musket ball drops and hits enemy line hopefully cannons and artillery at time before rifling we're only accurate for quarter mile by experts hence firing broadsides to make more accurate
@Fedaykin4321 enemy skirmishers dont use rifles, so hes not in much more danger than anyone else
Watch them all again and find out :D
@Ironzealot7531 No, I was obviously proposing a series featuring Sharpe's ancestors or descendants.
the french retreat was -20 most of the army froze or starved. but mosco was,nt aflame , just a fire
@MajBlood
Well, the War of 1812 would be important to Canadians, esp. since it was the last time Americans tried to invade and conquer the country (sometimes our history is sooo embarrassing...).
But several thousand Canadians fought for the Union in the Civil War, and Canada harbored Union deserters and draft-dodgers, as well as Confederate operatives and sympathizers, so I wouldn't say it didn't affect you guys at all.
if you look at 8:21 you can see the sergeants real leg behind him! lol
Sorry to sound like a b****, but these would be much better if you could group the videos in order, so you could play the whole episode at once.
@MajBlood
Well, to each their own-- even if I didn't find the Civil War personally interesting, I'd be stuck with it as a matter of family history. I had ancestors on both sides, and my mother is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution AND the United Daughters of the Confederacy. I have trouble figuring that one out sometimes....
Never mention William Tecumseh Sherman around my mother...just don't.
@keithehlert If I had the Money, I'd make one.. .!
is that the captian from hornblower
@padvergoldeter just google sharpe wikipedia has them listed in order all 16
i gonna do it
lol oops it does look like southern california tho sometimes
You know what's amazing? How southern California looks nothing like Spain lol
@MajBlood
Bernard Cornwell's Starbuck Chronicles series of books, set in the American Civil War, has Sharpe's son as a supporting character.
But I haven't read them myself, since I have better things to do than waste my time reading about some &!@!&!! Copperhead....
They didnt need a bigger budget they needed to get the re-enactment enthusiasts to do it for nothing. Lets face it they would have jumped at the chance
Wasted opportunity :(
Still fantastic though
@11Cheesewaffles: Actually there are!! :-P
@Fedaykin4321 Aiming at Officers deliberately was not common in those Days, it was something uncivilised and barbaric.
@keithehlert not a fan of the french then.
But, I guess; who does?
Who is this guy?
@BtoZproductions Budget was low for this series. LOL.
lol
@neckronn99 Yeh I am sure they are good books, but I am not a big fan of the American Civil War or American history in general.
probably because the russians lost virtually every war after the Napoleonic wars until the 2nd world war, Including the crimean, russo-japenese, and first world wars
i dont think you can include ww1 in that, they were actually on our side untill the revolution meant they withdrew from it & the russians were still fighting in the crimean wars when we fought the napoleonic, if it wasnt for the brilliance of Kutuzov's at Rouse then they'd of been fighting on 2 fronts when napoleon turned his armies east, the crimean actually ended in 1812 so you need to learn your history
@nounever i know its not really far i mean if it wernt for the russians we wouldnt have won world war 2 and the napoleonic wars
Nah he's Irish what's he gonna do?
@nounever Because russia to f'ing massive to be captured so no one can say they are a great fighting race though they are tough.
The irish made the british army
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