That French general is one of my favorite characters in this series. Sure, he is bound to help the bad guys his love for food is one of the fun elements about him.
"It will be my turn soon." I love that contempt for danger. Great character. Also, that gentle shoulder tap to the wounded soldier at the end. He knows he's going to have to spend a lot of troops in an assault, but he hates doing it.
His earlier line about having soup with every meal because he remembered when there was no soup coupled with his line about his hate of long sieges and his subsequent decision to make this short and bloody really tells the story of a man who suffered and didn’t want to put his men through the degradation he has been through, better a fast death like this than starving and/or falling sick. Things like dysentery spread through camps like wild fire at this time. As a man who’s experienced both starving and dysentery I can say they are both abstract types of unpleasant, starving isn’t too bad unless the headaches start those can get unbearable. The sickness I mentioned isn’t too bad over all, came close to kicking the bucket with it but water, pickle juice and heavy electrolyte stuff will help. Oh and immune compromised folk like those starving catch all sorts of horrible I only named 1.
@@adarael The great thing about Sharpe was that it showed that in war, there were heroes and villains on both sides regardless for whom they fought. When a man gives his life holding a position so his comrades can escape, who he fights for is irrelevant, his sacrifice is no less brave.
in those days you still had to form ranks. The Voltigeurs from earlier (green epaulets) were light infantry who didn't need to form ranks ,which is why they were able to shoot.
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To be fair the French never had armoured trolls. Although forming massed archers up at the gate to fire in volley at the exposed points might have been a pretty good tactic. A better one would have been to throw spears instead. Better chance of striking an artery or vital organ through the deep troll skin.
In all fairness, it wasn't his role to carry the standard (there's reasons for that). As he pointed out, he was likely to get shot anyway; he was the most obvious officer on the field, and at the front of the column.
Calvet is a treasure, none of the British brass were ever shown to carry a wounded friend from the battlefield, he's my favourite senior officer in the show. Sharp and Ducos are the reasons he keeps loosing but Calvet never holds a grudge, he keeps soldering on for his emperor and enjoys every meal on the way, just happy he's not starving in Russia anymore.
This was the standard British tactical response to an attack in column. The weakness of a column is that only the front rank and side files can fire, and they only get one shot. The British volley fire, whether by ranks or by half-companies, meant that fire was almost continuous. The effect was devastating.
yup 1st row fires, 2nd takes aim and 3rd and 4th load their rifles. then 2nd line fires moving forward passing the 1st one. and so on and so on. like clockwork.
General Chevrolet would remember the quicklime and slap Sharpe for it during “Sharpe’s revenge”. Sharpe would return the slap the moment the General brought his honor in question - the blow would ironically make General Channel respect Sharpe as a man who speaks in actions than words. *Chelvet
Brigade, march! All, what, fifty of them? Seriously, from a black powder reenactor's point of view, that is THE eyesore in the otherwise wonderful Sharpe TV series. There are just so few extras... 'companies' barely equate to 30 people, 'regiments' only about 50. I realize that it's a matter of budget, but still....
But still nothing. This wasn't made for "black powder reenactors". It was made as Saturday night entertainment. Do you honestly think the average British housewife of the 90's knew the difference between a company, battalion and a regiment? They just wanted to see Sean Bean acting cocky with his shirt off. If you want facts and numbers, go read the history books.
@@theoriginaldylangreene I'm not trashing the Sharpe series. What I'm suggesting would enhance or improve it, that's all. As I say, I understand that the number of extras was a matter of budget.
@@carlhicksjr8401 I disagree. A lack of budget forced the writers to work creatively. Big budget modern stuff is all safe and pandering. I'd rather this than anything made by an American network in the last 15 years.
@@theoriginaldylangreene Well, may I suggest that you at the the US cable TV series Turn: Washington's Spies. Entirely American made but it told a lot of truth about the Revolutionary War, quite a bit of it uncomplimentary to both sides. As a historian, I appreciate that unblinking eye quite a bit. I'm well aware that no TV series is going to have the 'cast of thousands' like 'Barry Lyndon' did [I'm referring to the huge numbers of troops marching in column in that film]. The insurance alone is too expensive. But there's rumors going about that a remake of the Sharpe series is in discussion, and one of the things I'd like to see is a larger number of bodies in the battle scenes.
@@carlhicksjr8401 I'll take a look, it better not have any church burning in it, aka pandering. Does it even mention Washington hitting the 13 with taxes far higher than the stamp tax to pay for his brand-new war for example? Or is it just "white men all bad"? I expect you'll get your wish with the new Sharpe, though not it the way you'll expect. There will be more extra's. But they'll be Caribbeans stationed in India for reasons of politics not historical accuracy.
Sharpe wants Calvet to order a retreat. If he kills Calvet no one will order the retreat. Also they had picked off all of the other officers and made some in the front rank turn around, only to be pushed forward by those in the rear. They wanted to cause chaos in the column. Using the quicklime made it worse for them as they now were wrong about Sharpe's ammunition shortage. Calvet is a brigadier general- who has about 2000 men but brought a detachment of maybe 200 here. Seeing most of them piled up dead at the gate is quite chilling.
Watched a few of these Sharpe clips now and still yet to see a French man fire a gun. All they seem to do is march into gun fire with their guns kept down. Now, that's not soldiering!!
In a way it is sad. France used up all its warrior spirit in one glorious generation which the world will never see the like of again. Singlehandedly France nearly broke Europe and was damn close to having it all. Sure the Germans nearly did it too, but they had technology and weapons far more advanced than the rest of Europe at the time.
Makes sense; they're France's B-team soldiers in this scene. They're probably not Napoleon's finest especially after retreating from Moscow. Barely trained conscripts marching toward veteran riflemen hiding inside a fort was going to be a bloody fight.
The Revolutionary war the civil war, all of the wars great Britain France Russia. Even WW 1 and 2. Men marched into gun fire. The weapons were superior to the tactics.
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That French general is one of my favorite characters in this series. Sure, he is bound to help the bad guys his love for food is one of the fun elements about him.
He's Sharpe and Harpers opposite number.
He's a professional soldier and good leader who wants to do his job, do it well, and doesn't have time for skullduggery.
He does his duty, doesn't care that the French aristocrats look down on him, cares for his men....he's the general you want to serve with.
*BELCH!*
General Jean Calvet - played by Olivier Pierre.
@@fordshaw5833 Sadly passed away in 2003.
"It will be my turn soon." I love that contempt for danger. Great character.
Also, that gentle shoulder tap to the wounded soldier at the end. He knows he's going to have to spend a lot of troops in an assault, but he hates doing it.
His earlier line about having soup with every meal because he remembered when there was no soup coupled with his line about his hate of long sieges and his subsequent decision to make this short and bloody really tells the story of a man who suffered and didn’t want to put his men through the degradation he has been through, better a fast death like this than starving and/or falling sick. Things like dysentery spread through camps like wild fire at this time. As a man who’s experienced both starving and dysentery I can say they are both abstract types of unpleasant, starving isn’t too bad unless the headaches start those can get unbearable. The sickness I mentioned isn’t too bad over all, came close to kicking the bucket with it but water, pickle juice and heavy electrolyte stuff will help. Oh and immune compromised folk like those starving catch all sorts of horrible I only named 1.
I love how much care he gives his men. As much as Napoleon's soldiers are supposed to be the bad guys, I gotta love the french commander here.
@@adarael The great thing about Sharpe was that it showed that in war, there were heroes and villains on both sides regardless for whom they fought. When a man gives his life holding a position so his comrades can escape, who he fights for is irrelevant, his sacrifice is no less brave.
That guy on the left at 3:54 4:04 and 4:06 had it worse than anyone in Moscow. Died three times and kept coming. Now that’s soldiering.
If you don't die 3 times a minute, you ain't Sean Bean enough :)
That’s what makes a good soldier. The ability to die three times a minute in any weather
@@dappert4730 it’s a good life Dobbs. If you can stay alive.
Fucking underrated comment
😀😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣 Damn, this show is bad.
General Calvet perfected the art of letting your soldiers walk slow but steady into bullets without shooting back.
It is quiet hard to reload while walking.
Although they could have at least run the last few hundred meters.
@@HALLish-jl5mo They did run at he last moment though. gotta have some stamina when you’re finally in the melee
Well with a real French column it minimized casualties. Sharpe's production just didnt have the same budget as Napoleon.
They even showed the Chasseurs move ahead as a skirmishing force.
in those days you still had to form ranks. The Voltigeurs from earlier (green epaulets) were light infantry who didn't need to form ranks ,which is why they were able to shoot.
What makes a good channel owner?
The ability to upload 3 videos a week, sir.
in any Wi-fi
@@Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF Now that's soldiering! 🤣🤣🤣
Now that's uploadering
3 a week?! the BBC could upload 2 on a good day, do you think you can do better? Mr Cat?
@@srinathradhakrishnan Yes sir.
When I see a notification that Sharpe posted another video, I clicked on it, that’s my style, Sir!
🤣🤣🤣
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lmfao
Clicking the link, liking, and commenting all within a minute of notification, thats soldiering.
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Did any commenter distinguish himself?
Sharpe could see the love this general had for his men
It's like total war but with the unit scale set to really small
Back in the days when extras weren't generated by CGI and thus, cost money 😕
"Shoot the officers first, except the obvious General, don't shoot him"
They did shoot at him. He simply plucked the bullets out of the air, dipped them in butter and ate them
@@jimmynyarlathotep6857 I was going to reply but you've won the Internet with that one 😂🤣
Maybe he was more useful as a capture?
@@jimmynyarlathotep6857 That's why he had Gaston by his side. So he could have soup with every bullet, because he remembers when he had no soup.
Well they couldnt shoot the general because he is supposed to appear in future episodes
i feel bad for Gaston and general Calvet.
They'll be back with their soup and mushrooms soon 😋
@@ScottyShaw Mushrooms? I love mushrooms!
@@lindildeev5721 Watch out! Gaston gonna shoot you from behind.
General Calvet looked so sad :-(
It's a shame Sharpe wasn't at the Battle of Pelennor Fields. The gates of Minas Tirith would have never been breached.
And at The Helm's Deep too...
It wasn't for want of trying. Go Boromir.
Well sharpe is so badass he can be portrayed by Sean Bean and live.
To be fair the French never had armoured trolls. Although forming massed archers up at the gate to fire in volley at the exposed points might have been a pretty good tactic. A better one would have been to throw spears instead. Better chance of striking an artery or vital organ through the deep troll skin.
in the book the gate was breached but no one made it inside apart from the Witch-King. Who promptly ran back out when the horns of Rohan sounded.
Ducos was lucky he was not in Moscow.
Might have ended up in a soup.
Anybody who took the Regiment banner got shot.
So what had general did when banner fell upon his feet? Grabbed it and gave to somebody else.
In all fairness, it wasn't his role to carry the standard (there's reasons for that). As he pointed out, he was likely to get shot anyway; he was the most obvious officer on the field, and at the front of the column.
@@johnmccarron7066 Yes, his job is to command.
But this little detail shows he's both good at his job and a survivor type
@@PobortzaPl No its literally just not his job to carry the flag. Thats for an Ensign usually to carry one.
@@SirChill-gm8bh And all of them are gone...
@@SirChill-gm8bh That is called "The color guard" In the US services any ways... Do not know what the Brits call there squad to protect the flag...
Sharpe videos in 2023? Now that's soldiering!
Now that’s soldiering!
Sharpe 's men really hate the French Regimental colour bearers....that's solderin egad!
Who doesn't like a good game of Pick Up The Flag And Die??
@@F40PH-2CAT Sharpe prefers to play capture the flag against the Imperial Guard ✌😎
Ordering your men, to threaten the retreating enemy with empty weapons. That's Sharpe soldiering.
More like Sharpe shooting!
Bayonets don't need ammo
Joshua L Chamberlain did something similar only a few years later...
Look at Gaston cute little face 2:53
Wish they would remake this series with a bigger budget would be amazing.
That french general was a VERY brave man.
i like how they only had a hand-full of Frenchmen so the kept killing the same ones several times over
Shoe string budget, still better then Rings of Power though
it's the Vive Le France spell
@@Delogroslol, not a high bar, but yes.
Calvet is a treasure, none of the British brass were ever shown to carry a wounded friend from the battlefield, he's my favourite senior officer in the show. Sharp and Ducos are the reasons he keeps loosing but Calvet never holds a grudge, he keeps soldering on for his emperor and enjoys every meal on the way, just happy he's not starving in Russia anymore.
My favorite Sharpe meme, even ahead of soldiering.
.. Then it was truly bad!
Breaking the Geneva Convention before the Geneva Convention existed? Now that's Soldiering.
Forming successive firing lines, now that is Soldiering.
This was the standard British tactical response to an attack in column. The weakness of a column is that only the front rank and side files can fire, and they only get one shot. The British volley fire, whether by ranks or by half-companies, meant that fire was almost continuous. The effect was devastating.
Sharpe used the same tactic they used at the final battle in Zulu. Damn fine Musketry and soldiering.
Standard British tactics.
Martini Henry rifles were used in ‘Zulu’ not muskets.
@@aidanmercer9422 I was talking about how they formed stacked lines behind each other at the end. It seemed similar
@@aidanmercer9422 Sharpe and his lads would have LOVED those. Harper wouldbe like "Jaysus!" every 10 seconds.
yup 1st row fires, 2nd takes aim and 3rd and 4th load their rifles. then 2nd line fires moving forward passing the 1st one. and so on and so on. like clockwork.
So ingenious,how Sharpe find the way to defeat the enemy.
Dying dramatically thats my style sir
Gaston survived Sharpe loved his humour That's soldiering
If ONLY they had the budget for 500+ extras for the batte scenes........
This battle singlehandedly makes me want to be a Napoleonic reenactor. Alas, I'm in America, so Sharpe will do
You could join an American War Of Independence re-enacting group, they use similar weapons.
The war of 1812 was going on about the same time as the invasion of Russia.
We need a series that's just General Calvet and Gaston.
0:49 can you spot the player-created character?
Chemical warfare, that's my style, sir.
General Chevrolet would remember the quicklime and slap Sharpe for it during “Sharpe’s revenge”.
Sharpe would return the slap the moment the General brought his honor in question - the blow would ironically make General Channel respect Sharpe as a man who speaks in actions than words.
*Chelvet
Well, it ain't a war crime the 1st time.
You could say.... they made the French limeys XD
technically the French were attacking a French fort, so no crime was committed.
I'm just here wondering what Taliesin Jaffe is doing on the video thumbnail
4:01 dude on the right was a little late with 'getting shot', but he went down anyway 😃
Poor gaston!
as bad as Moscow?
I love calvet and gaston
Poor Gaston!
Brigade, march!
All, what, fifty of them?
Seriously, from a black powder reenactor's point of view, that is THE eyesore in the otherwise wonderful Sharpe TV series. There are just so few extras... 'companies' barely equate to 30 people, 'regiments' only about 50. I realize that it's a matter of budget, but still....
But still nothing. This wasn't made for "black powder reenactors". It was made as Saturday night entertainment. Do you honestly think the average British housewife of the 90's knew the difference between a company, battalion and a regiment? They just wanted to see Sean Bean acting cocky with his shirt off.
If you want facts and numbers, go read the history books.
@@theoriginaldylangreene I'm not trashing the Sharpe series. What I'm suggesting would enhance or improve it, that's all. As I say, I understand that the number of extras was a matter of budget.
@@carlhicksjr8401 I disagree. A lack of budget forced the writers to work creatively. Big budget modern stuff is all safe and pandering. I'd rather this than anything made by an American network in the last 15 years.
@@theoriginaldylangreene Well, may I suggest that you at the the US cable TV series Turn: Washington's Spies. Entirely American made but it told a lot of truth about the Revolutionary War, quite a bit of it uncomplimentary to both sides. As a historian, I appreciate that unblinking eye quite a bit.
I'm well aware that no TV series is going to have the 'cast of thousands' like 'Barry Lyndon' did [I'm referring to the huge numbers of troops marching in column in that film]. The insurance alone is too expensive. But there's rumors going about that a remake of the Sharpe series is in discussion, and one of the things I'd like to see is a larger number of bodies in the battle scenes.
@@carlhicksjr8401 I'll take a look, it better not have any church burning in it, aka pandering.
Does it even mention Washington hitting the 13 with taxes far higher than the stamp tax to pay for his brand-new war for example? Or is it just "white men all bad"?
I expect you'll get your wish with the new Sharpe, though not it the way you'll expect.
There will be more extra's. But they'll be Caribbeans stationed in India for reasons of politics not historical accuracy.
Who are the guys with the aprons and axes?
Guys with axes are military sappers its role fór military engenier who have duties mainly to build and destroy baricades
Farriers
What kind of powder were they pouring down from the wall?
Lime produced by burning oyster shells
F R O E N C H N O I S E S
Is there any historical reason a defending force wouldn't just focus fire on the front of the column until General Calvert is dead?
Sharpe wants Calvet to order a retreat. If he kills Calvet no one will order the retreat. Also they had picked off all of the other officers and made some in the front rank turn around, only to be pushed forward by those in the rear. They wanted to cause chaos in the column. Using the quicklime made it worse for them as they now were wrong about Sharpe's ammunition shortage. Calvet is a brigadier general- who has about 2000 men but brought a detachment of maybe 200 here. Seeing most of them piled up dead at the gate is quite chilling.
Watched a few of these Sharpe clips now and still yet to see a French man fire a gun. All they seem to do is march into gun fire with their guns kept down. Now, that's not soldiering!!
The skirmishers were firing their rifles, the rest of the French troops weren't though
It's too bad Sharpe is so damn historically and militarily inaccurate, but at least it's entertaining!
Using chemical warfare before the geneva convention ☠️🧪⚗️
Now that's war criming 🤫
It ain't a war crime if it ain't a war crime... *yet* 😇
there is no chemical warfare here, they just blinded them
It's activated lime.
General Calvet trusting Major Ducos' word again?
The First Time, really.
4:28 I know why they are coming close, but it looks ridiculous for me. The distance between each side is too close.
Because muskets are inacurate even if you stand in line its hard to shoot thats reason why line battles ware so close to each other
1.37 fella picks up the flag and drops his sword. No point in re shooting it just cut
Actually felt bad for the French lads and Calvet. Poor bastards got demolished.
Minchia, altre due comparse costavano troppo?
Even the French soldiers hated Ducos
In a way it is sad. France used up all its warrior spirit in one glorious generation which the world will never see the like of again.
Singlehandedly France nearly broke Europe and was damn close to having it all.
Sure the Germans nearly did it too, but they had technology and weapons far more advanced than the rest of Europe at the time.
The French are underpowered
Makes sense; they're France's B-team soldiers in this scene. They're probably not Napoleon's finest especially after retreating from Moscow. Barely trained conscripts marching toward veteran riflemen hiding inside a fort was going to be a bloody fight.
The Revolutionary war the civil war, all of the wars great Britain France Russia. Even WW 1 and 2. Men marched into gun fire. The weapons were superior to the tactics.
I don't care what anyone says, I like calling cities by their ancient names. I will always be Moscovi for me. Londinium, Constantinople, etc.
I think that General Calvet should order that all the surviving French Soldiers should get an extra ration of soup and cheese.🥣🧀
Spain campaign came before Moscow.
This is in France not Spain
Also Spain and Moscow where concurrent, technically.
This is in France near the end of the war.
this occurs in Bordeaux close to 1814. Moscow is over.
Pre diversity Britain. Good old days.
Got some bad news for you...
Colonel Sharpe:”Right lads and ladies (woke)and non binaries (more woke)remember what we are fighting for:one hundred more years of aristocratic rule!”
Oh teh noes!!! Letting wimmins and trannies into the army to play wiv the boys!!!! Truly the world is ending!!!!!1!1!! 😂
To a soldier any officer that respects his men enemy or not is respected