Sharpe Is Summoned To Duke Of Wellington's House | Sharpe
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- It's 1817 and The Duke Of Wellington wishes for Sharpe to return to India, in this clip from Sharpe's Challenge. Can an old friend convince him?
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Sharpe is a swashbuckling period drama series about a British officer fighting during the Napoleonic Wars starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, and Daragh O'Malley as his second in command, Patrick Harper.
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"In 1815 a legendary colonel led the charge against Napoleon. This man promptly hung up his sword and retired to farming life. Today, still wanted by the military, he survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, and no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Colonel Sharpe!"♫Dunnn dun dunn du du dunnnn♫
I can see that
Brilliant!
Now that's referencing!
Top post, love it!
a horse drawn carriage with the red slash graphics...I pity the fool who goes off half cocked...
Keeping Sharpe's best friend's wife outside the meeting room to guilt-trip him into changing his mind in case he said no?
Now that's Wellington-ing.
Yea they got him good on that one fail safe plane lol
That's not soldiering
@@jamesward6460 agreed
Why didn't Wellington just tell Sharpe straight up? This was a bit of uncalled-for manipulation.
Wellington knew how to pull the strings. That for sure.
Wellington: Farming, really? Man of your talents?
Sharpe: It's a peaceful life.
Ah yes, nice Diocletian reference.
@@hannibalburgers477 we were on the verge of greatness we were this close.
And that's farming.
Wellington is a crafty devil. He boosted Sharpe up to officer out of thanks, and Sharpe has been paying him back ever since.
To be fair, he did warn Sharpe of the disservice being done to him by making him a Lieutenant.
I think it’s a mix of that and trusting sharpe
Many many times over
What can we say, Sharpe just prove himself time and time again as someone who get jobs done and still survive. I would pick him to do all the dangerous stuff. Beside ain't Sharpe also looked forward for a promotion?
@@goen5601 I sometimes wonder if Sean Bean's deaths in pretty much everything else he has done are compensation for all he lived through as Richard Sharpe, lol
"Whom should we send as agent?"
"Send Harper. If anything goes wrong, Sharpe will rescue him."
That's generaling.
Sharpe: "Wait, your missing man is Harper? Why didn't you lead with that? Could have saved us a whole lot of pointless discussion!"
Wellington: "But the audience needs this background info!"
Sharpe: "Wut?"
Wellington: "Wat?"
You speak BBC drama?
They tried it -
Wellington: Harper's gone and gotten himself missing chasing some would-be Raj in India.
Sharpe: When's the ship set sail?! Where's me Baker rifle? Can I get my sword?
It just...didn't get the required background information or needed plot twist in there.
Weillingtons: Har--
Sharpe: Say no more fam. I gotchu.
No, the preferred to have him volunteer, but had more incentive there if needed. Also when he volunteered and learned this after that Harper was there, he would have been optimally motivated.
Is that the script, Sir Wellington? Did you drop it?
Sharpe is like a proto James Bond. Ex military officer, smart, badass turned intelligence officer. That template has been a staple for at least decades in TV and movies.
Do they ever go into Bonds military career? I got the impression that his commander rank is more of a formality than him having an actual naval background.
@@LoudaroundLincoln From Google:
a young James Bond, fresh out of college, joined the Royal Navy where he enjoyed a distinguished military career and attained the rank of Commander within the RNR Defence Intelligence Group. It was then, around the age of 30, that Bond was recruited into MI6 and assigned the 007 moniker.
Hope that helps!
@@LoudaroundLincoln Read the books then. He served in the RN as an officer in WW2. He achieved the rank of commander before transferring to MI6 in the 50s.
The Commander title in the movies has been taken over from the books without going into it too deeply. Of course Sean Connery was too young to play Bond at the age of 32. Bond was in his late 30s, early 40s in the early books.
Proto? Bond's novels were written before Sharpe's I believe.
@@TheSpartan451 yes, sir, but I am not referring to when they were written, but rather the time in which the character interacts with his environment. Sharpe, Napoleonic Wars, 1800's vs. James Bond, Cold War, 1946-present(?).
Sharpe pre-dates Bond by roughly 100+ years so hence the "proto-" prefix.
I love it how wellington just writes to "come at once". Years of fighting together and wellington still doesn't talk to Sharpe normally. the books are funny as both men respect each other and kept signing praises for each other but can be kept in the same room
In real life that is how Wellington spoke, apparently, so that point is realistic. He had by many accounts a very abrupt manner, and had a habit of scrawling pithy one-liner responses to elaborate correspondence on schedules, requests and petitions by way of reply to the sender.
can you even imagine wellington wring a letter in the style of 'my dearest richard'
@@asleandere8852 a man of practicality and efficiency. that's why he won
@@namekman01I imagine if he tried Sharpe would’ve brought a war with him cause he’d know that either it wasn’t Wellington or all of Britain was about to fall.
@@namekman01
No.
But he wrote very fondly to Queen Victoria in his dotage.
"How has this man succeeded where so many others have failed?"
Delivering clunky lines with commitment. Now that's soldiering
Haha! I thought exactly the same when he mouthed that iffy sentence !
I don't have a bad word to say about the cast, but the writing on the 'new' Sharpes was pretty dire.
I'd have to say "Now, that's acting!"
"When I delivers a clunky line, I delivers it with commitment. That's my style, sir!"
@@johnbell8092A Clunky line is not my fault, Ser. It is the Writers who must answer!
Sending your best soldier's best friend first to get him to go to India
That's Wellingtoning.
That's Duking :>
You do realize that this is a fantasy?
@@mrsillywalk ...but the tactic works in real life, too.
Cheaper option.
"Save him Sean Bean Kenobi, you're his only hope" says Princess RamonaD2
good one!
lol!
Hahaha
Snap!
hello there
"Splendid...splendid!"
He's basically saying "You're even more awesome then I was told"
Changing your mind in a split second when the wife of a man you consider a brother to you asks you to go find her husband on the other side of the globe? Now that’s friendshipping.
Okay, dude "friendshipping" sounds like couples "swinging" to me! Then again... both Harper's lady and Sharpes best gal are both Fine examples of womanly beauty🤣!
@@dragonsword7370 Well at this point only one of the ladies is alive.
Not ageing a day since Waterloo. That's Wellingtoning.
@@AP-qs2zf Made of Tender loin and crust, that man is!
Was only 2 years prior.
Well, in fairness, Waterloo was in 1815, this is 1817. Its hardly a 10+ year leap :)
@@PlacidDragon are you guys really that dense? or just enjoy being obtuse? he's referring to the film which was 9 years prior to this one.
No writing while talking is wellingtoning
Giving up being a French farmer to go to India to find an Irishman who was your Sargent Major in the Peninsula campaign and who just showed up at Waterloo so he could catch a glimpse of Bonaparte. That's soldiering.
Achievement Earned:
*Englishman looks for Itishman in India, there’s a joke somewhere*
A missing Irishman no less.
@Trevor Clark better times...
@Trevor Clark you are always allowed to make jokes about the English.
Wellington was Irish , it may come as a surprise to you , but he started his career as a solder in India !
@@welshpete12 Anglo-Irish*
Coming to a sharpe video to hear the "now that's soldiering memes" now that's Youtubing.
That is the genius of Wellington. He was a master of contingency. Had Patrick's wife waiting for Sharpe all the while. A measure of Sharpe's reason, loyalty to whom and motive. A farmer and soldier have three things in common..a heart, love and conscience.
Wellington defeated the minds of Napolean's elite.
Sharpes internal monologue when he hears its Harpers the one in trouble "Harper you fool!"
“Patrick, you boneheaded paddy.”
"Come at once!!!..." Ol Wellington doesn't mince his words, does he? Lol!
No, he doesn't. Nor did he back then.
This was written in 1812.
Gentlemen,
Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M. ship from London to Lisbon and thence by dispatch to our headquarters.
We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all manner of sundry items for which His Majesty’s Government holds me accountable. I have dispatched reports on the character, wit, and spleen of every officer. Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.
Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted for in one infantry battalion’s petty cash and there has been a hideous confusion as the the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.
This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions from His Majesty’s Government so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it must be one of two alternative duties, as given below. I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both:
1. To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance.
2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain.
Your most obedient servant,
Wellington
That's generalling.
@@hansheden
When speaking to Sharpe, use direct sentences.
When speaking to babbling fools, inform them of how many jars of jelly you lost.
"Come at once!"
"I just did, your Grace!"
"What?"
"What?"
The quality of these later episodes werent as good as the originals I found, but it was still so great to get a few more episodes after all those years
shoe horning the prequel novels into a post-Napolenic career in India, it took A LOT of script doctoring. But at least it was a decent swan song of Sean Bean as Sharpe.
Divide and rule...thats empiring!
lol
Yeah right. Divide the movie to 3 minute clips and rule the TH-cam
The English did it very well.
No issues with me
Divide et imperia.
It’s now its a profit making scheme of news media.
They should really film Sharpe's Devil. He's the perfect age now.
I feel like Wellington was a bit wasted here. Usually he'd have some candid discussion with his adjutant, little bit of his personality, scorching the toffs in various degrees depending on the circumstances, plotting to have incompetent and pompous officers either killed or disgraced. Here he's really just here to introduce the plot and get Sharpe on his way.
Tbh Wellington was never the same after David Troughton left
I always loved how Lord Wellington setup Sharpe, and he did it again in this sequence.
Not sure why Wellington didn't just lead with "It's Pat Harper, Sharpe, he's missing". You *know* that would've put an end to Sharpe's whole "but, I'm a farmer now" nonsense, right away.
Would've saved on film.
"Patrick Harper's gone missing in India. He was an agent investigat-"
"Right. Get me a bloody ship."
A better way to do it would be for Sharpe to start to turn and have Wellington drop that line.
@@PhoenixT70 Sharpe would quickly about turn and say, "well why didn't you bloody well say so in the first place? Your Grace"
@@CB-xr1eg Which would have been hilarious.
In almost every episode Wellington has a new number one
You mean number 2
Well I was thinking of Star Trek, where Riker was Picards number One ya know?
Number One would be correct, as in 'first officer'.
I think that was the original plan when they started the series.
Major Hogan was the best. Don't say "shenanigans" or he'll pistol whip you.
Just when I thought I was done with this series... Now that's marketing.
Reading the Sharpe books, as well as Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin series, were some of the best reads of my life. Enjoyed all of them. A treat for history buffs like me, even if the timelines sometimes didn't add up...
Sharpe I never missed an episode .loved that show .Sean bean was made to play him .
Declining a mission? That's retiring .
Already sending Sharpe's best mate on the mission. Now That's Wellingtoning!
Achievement Earned:
*Swords to Plowshares*
*Commando* (Tell me this don’t seem like it, the ex special forces member pulled out of retirement)
Well, he was an infantry O-5, not SF
Thotaro Joestar kind of, he did command an infantry regiment of the line by the end, but he always wore the dark green of the 95th Rifles who would have been an SF unit back in the day.
Pulling a soldier/agent reluctantly out of retirement isn't an uncommon trope, alas Sharpes daughter (wherever she is) was not kidnapped by the bad guy, so not that much resemblance to Commando.
Sharpe was never in the Special Forces though. The 95th Rifles rarely fought as Sharpe depicts. They were experimental and cutting edge. Maybe "elite" but a far flung throw from the SF community.
@@Charlie5478 oh really? Didn't know that, also I think that the unit he commanded in the last Waterloo episode was a BN sized element
WHOAAAA!!!! Amazing scene.
Thanks to the channel for showing me such a great series! (First video I watched was the "Major Lennox ansered with his life!!!!!! As yo should have done if you had any sense of honor!!!!" One of the best scenes of the series)
This is our most desperate hour. Help me Sharpe, you're my only hope.
Watched Sharpe's Challenge once again after viewing this clip. Such an excellent film - I do hope Sean & co. come back for more Sharpe; one of my all time favourite series.
Too old. Honestly, if they're going to do another Sharpe series they might as well do a reboot with a fresh cast.
@@Former_Halo_Fan Nah, the wokeness would be insufferable.
@@sergeanthowiefromthemainland this is true.
@@Former_Halo_Fan sadly, perhaps also true.. or rather, one last hurrah for Sharpe post farmer life!
Bean is excellennt in this role (among all his other roles), true- but have you read the books? I just finished the 1st on, where Sharpe became a Sgt in India.
Sharpe has a particular set of skills..
He should first demand a full colonel rank, a knighthood, and two thousand pounds up front.
Pretty sure he's getting his bird once the mission is over, or during it
Feds also 2000 pounds annual pension the “RAJ” could afford it.
... and a helicopter and 20 pizzas ..
That wouldn't be soldiering
He's not Flashman.
Right at the very end, his look, you know he just said bugger to himself!
You'll notice as Sharpe enters Wellington's office, there's a slight halt in his step. That's the moment that Wellington tightened his grip on Sharpe's short and curlies by letting Mrs. Harper into the foyer.
Wellington had Sharpe by the balls; he just didn't know it, yet. So when Sharpe refused, all Wellington had to do was _squeeze..._
Well played Wellington, well played sir.
I imagine it was no accident that Patrick's wife was waiting in that room that Sharpe just happened to be led through on his way out. Wellington knew damn well what Sharpe would do when he realized it was his friend who was missing.
Imagine a trio such as Sharpe, James Bond, and Robin Hood would be - chaos and absolute glorious
I only read the books and now it just struck me that I didn’t know this scene... so finally after months of watching YT clips here I found an excuse to watch the whole Movies/Series : D
Wellington: "Today is my 100 and eleventith birthday"
Sharpe: "You haven't aged a day..."
Now that's buggering...
Finding lost Irishmen, now that’s soldiering
He’s probably in a pub
I believe colonial India has more brothels then pubs
@@tylerjanes1262 touche...
No, that's podracing...
This is actually one of my favorite Sharpe movies. Sure it basically rips Novel Continuity apart but it is a very well done script.
Haven't seen it yet, so going to quit here before the spoilers take away all the taste.
That's the thing about adaptation
If it's not faithful, at *least* make it well written.
"How come this man has succeeded where so many others have failed" .
I keep playing this line, but Beans acting never gets any better.
Not easy for any actor to deliver such a poorly written line convincingly.
I LOVE the outfit Sharpe is wearing here! :-)
It's very well done, isn't it - every inch the prosperous farmer and so totally NOT Sean Bean, but he carries it off convincingly.
[Transcribed Letter]: Come at once. Wellington. X
A great series that bares watching over and over.
Sean Bean was truly "Lord in the North..."GOT".
And, a charter member of the "Fellowship"...."LOTR" .
Exactly the way Colonel Trautman keeps getting Rambo to come out of retirement again and again.
I see they are making a new series of Sharpe. The feature length first episode sees Colonel Sharpe transferring into the Catering Corp after Waterloo. The new series will be called Sharpe's Trifles.
Hah!
@@bluerock4456 Crikey, it took two months to get a laugh on that one.
@@jules2545 ... . Some might not know what a trifle is ... but I think that they are quite tasty!
That pun's worth a cringe and a facepalm.
@@maryanneslater9675 and a wee laugh!
It would have been easier to say "An agent of ours based in India has gone missing. He is a good acquaintance of yours. A Patrick Harper."
Sharpe: I am on me way, Your Grace!
When they didn’t offer land and title... his alarm bells should have started ringing.
Sharpe: "That maybe so m'lord, but what happens in India are the business of men with influence and great import, and not of a farmer"
Wellington: "Very well, Brigadier General Sharpe, that is all, dismissed!"
Help me Obi-Sharpe-Kenobi, you are his only hope.
Feel like it cuts off just before a tirade of fluent yorkshire pleasantries 😂
'Fluent Yorkshire pleasantries'......we can all imagine what THAT would have been :) !
@@cobden28whittehnam7 'Welly yuh roight fookin bahstud! where do i sign oop?!?'
Telling Wellington to stuff himself, that's farming.
Sharpe should have known wellington well enough to know the man never committed his reserves unless he had to, and he always has something up his sleeves... ;D
i feel that this whole scene was set up to give wellington plausible deniability:
"did you ask sharpe to do this black op?"
wellington: "i did, and he refused"
wellington knows perfectly well that he could have got sharpe straight up, just by laying his cards on the table
Now that manipulation at its finest
Sharpe and Hornblower my two favourite series
Oh, Plot... That's a dirty trick
Edit: After watching it a few times, I see Wellington smiling and nodding his head in the background... that sly dog
Wellington is a devious bastard throughout the series. If you didn't know something like this was coming... well...
Trolling Sharpe is a bit of a hobby of his throughout the series
Needs another sharpe movie while Sean bean is still alive
Been summoned at once by the Duke of Wellington?
That's soldiering!
"When a man soils a Wellington he puts his foot in it." :)
You are a genius
This is missing one of the most important lines in the entire episode (movie?) They try to play on Sharpe's sense of patriotism and asking why he won't fight for his country anymore. He says, "Country? I hear no talk of country, only company!" (talking about the East India Company) Wellington replies something about what's best for business and commerce being what's best for the country...and that's why they want an experienced soldier like Sharpe to go there to secure England's economic interests and position.
Things haven't changed much.
I’d like to quietly point out you said the DUTCH East India Company, in which case Sharpe would definitely say no given his previous experience with a particular Dutchman.
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 Yeah, good point. Meant to say, "EAST India Company." Nothing to do with that "Silk stocking full of shit."
No problem, I do it half the time when I’m typing
A note paper to Sharpe" come at once if inconvenient come all the same" Duke of Wellington
"Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient come all the same"
“That may be so!...”
The polite way of saying “I couldn't give a s***” since 1817 😅
“Damn it Sharpe the rat is in the bottle!”
Writing this comment before even viewing the video? Madness you say? No, this is Sparta!
2:04 Friggin' fly landed right on his chin.
Got him by the short and feelies..a dastardly move
Upon seeing a Sharoe clip, i subscribed. That's my style sir
I knew Wellington liked playing it close to the vest and doing what needs to bet it done, but that was a low blow even for him.
Probably should have led with Harper having been the missing agent. . .
Holding out that bit of information told Wellington Sharpe’s state of mind.
Knowing Sharpe would only go to save Harper tells Wellington what Sharpe will, and will not, do . . .
@@danieldravot341
'Spose that's true, but Wellington should know Sharpe's undying loyalty to his men, especially his best. . . Well, I'd say friend, but officer-enlisted fraternization was frowned highly upon, especially in Britain back then. Oh wait, it's Sharpe. Best friend.
Though I guess that's probably why Harper's wife was there to relay that to him. . .
Using his best friend’s wife to get you to say yes? That’s soldiering.
"Now, will you take me to Wellington? Or should I dig the bugger out myself?"
Sean Bean does not die in this scene. (Ding!)
for all his wonderful qualities, and make no mistake, he is a hero, sharpe is still a small player in a very large game.
people like sir samuel may push hard, but it's all a test. minus one eye, that did not happen by chance
Standing closer than 2 metres
Now that's pre 2020
😂😁😁
USA protesters beg to disagree.
I'd break COVID protocols to be within two meters of ya bonnie lass.
What!? a young woman leading a Rebellion? We need a very special man to take good care of her .... send in Sharp.
i know its only a program said loosely but huge respect to the righters well done and great respect for knowing how it went down
If there was a video game that was like a sandbox battlefield game like EA's Battlefields. I would want Sharpe as a selective hero to play on the field. I know that some will say "it wouldn't make any sense" but who cares? Its Sharpe!
that is EXACTLY the trick that Donovon pulls on Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade!
that's low, having the wife of a good friend pressure him into returning to war, that's lower than a gators belly button in a Cajun swamp.
You can almost see sharps face turn at the end, that moment where you think "Oh Piss"
Sean Bean does that expression so well. "Well, we're fooked. I guess we'll just have to pull off another bloody miracle."
@@maryanneslater9675 Haha indeed, the true British way.
Alas Sharpe, Mrs. Harper's husband is also our missing agent.
Well, you could have mentioned that fact!
Right at the end there, he's thinking Oh you bastid about Wellington 😆
If they’d just said Harper is missing in India, he’d already be on the boat
At 2:07 not even a fly can alter Wellingtons composure. Now thats acting.
I'm amazed more people haven't mentioned that fly. Hugh Fraser absolutely felt that little bugger and barely moved. Also amazed they left that shot in, lol.
"Help us, farmer Richard Sharpie! You're our only hope!"
"Will you take me to Wellington? Or shall I dig the bugger out myself?"
*pregnant pause then approving grin that Sharpe clearly doesn't hold rank or station as scared* "Splendid. ...Splendid"
Sharpe? Are you that fellow Wellesley raised from the ranks?
Aye
These papers seem in order sir, seems Sharpe distinguishes himself.
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 not here he hasn't, brawling with common soldiers?
@@terrorfire8505 Harper, you struck an officer? That is a shooting matter!
@@SantomPh I woke him up sir thought I was an intruder all my fault sir
Ramona knew what Wellington was doing 100% defenetly lol
The wrath of Sharpe to get Harper back? I would not want to face that.
I think the duke knew that if anything happened to harper that sharpe would do anything to help so thats probably why he sent harper. Now thats Duking.
"Sergeant Harper is the missing agent ..."
Sunzabitches.