@@WhySoSerious551 love how the show the first wife of Sharpe had a kid.... then with his new love and romance that became a bit inconvenient for the plot, so the kid is never mentioned again just to keep the image of a good-looking vagabond rising through the ranks XD
Well, this was a night attack on a small villa, and there really one were like 10 guys in the book, and bout 30 defenders. But yes, in the other battles there were usually more men on both sides.
@@95DarkFire In the book, I believe the bridge battle that Simmerson screwed up in Sharpe's Eagle actually got 300 men killed. I'd doubt the real Duke of Wellington would have gave Simmerson such a royal bollocking over losing 10 men.
They really did the dirty on the old guard in the show. In the book they stormed the building and cut through Duco's mercenaries like a knife though butter.
@@TheNerdForAllSeasons This time, it had nothing to do with budget. There were only ten french in the book as well, plus the three British. However, they actually used stealth and tactics to infiltrate the building, they didn't advance in a line.
@@95DarkFire i also dont recall the book having cruel aztec rituals, but the lack of budget meant that some pages where probably just skimmed instead of read "yadi yadi yada, some aztec gold, oh i guess theres aztecs in this"
Sometimes it feels like they had Nigel Farage as a script consultant. Just lazy stereotyping to appeal to the lowest class of viewer, instead of respecting the source material and having an arguably better show for it.
@Grand Moff Tarkin And that's what I meant a few Videos earlier: Calvet and his men won't just stand by and tolerate Traitors to their Emperor like Ducos and his men. Heck, in the book, Calvet gets the Order to retrieve the Treasure and punish Ducos from Napoleon HIMSELF on Elba.
1:21 - the only time a French line of battle has EVER been cheered by us Brits Also, lets think about what has happened here overall... A combined force of the 60th Rifles, 95th Rifles and the Imperial Guard made an amphibious landing, placed an advanced group into a castle to scout out the grounds, brought up the main force to launch the full attack, captured the fortress and then used its guns on the reinforcements before sniping the enemy leader at the edge of rifle range. Thats combined military operating
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I'm pretty sure there were french lines in Crimea that might have been cheered by brits and vice versa
@@EzekielDeLaCroix yes I know, well young guard were at Plancenoit most of the old guard was in reserve still, but in the episode they call it the old guard
@@AttyDouro22 They weren't just reserve, they were deployed at Plancenoit and took the village from Prussian capture in a bayonet charge, but were forced to retreat(in an orderly manner) against Prussian numbers. The Young Guard suffered high casualties because they were all over the place.
Being cross with a highly decorated general of Napoleon's Old Guard regarding military traditions and tactics. Now that's what I call soldiering. It could be ripe as well, though.
Letting a 6'4 200+ pound Irishman loose in a building full of Italians is like letting the Minotaur fight the Gremlins. Harper could've cleared that building himself.
Wasting some of your country's finest men by advancing unnecessarily slowly and loudly against fortified positions in a tight line formation, despite having night time as your advantige ? Now that's 19th century Napoleonic Warfaring. Can't say "bad officering", cause I like the character Calvet : P
@@lkvideos7181 One of the reasons so many actors abandoned this show in the early seasons was because of how poor the working conditions and wages were, when compared to the budget. Look it up. The first Wellesley, Major Hogan, some of the significant riflemen... They all walked.
You just skipped like 15 minutes of the episode, so I will do the context From the last video soon after, Frederickson goes to Paris to find the glasses maker for Ducos. He finds him but soon later to be taken by Calvet and Gaston. Frederickson tells them that Sharpe doesn't have the treasure but instead Ducos. Oh and the glasses maker said there was an order for these exact same prescription glasses to Naples. Calvet and Gaston and Frederickson arrive back in Normandy where Lucille's farm is along with where Sharpe is currently. Batman and Robin and the old guards sing for Sharpe, and Frederickson sees Sharpe already taken Lucille for himself. Frederickson had a love interest towards Lucille. They get into an argument, eventually leading to this scene.
@@Super_Tristan1005 ere ya go lad ua-cam.com/play/PL99B098754FF868E5.html just sharpes peril and challenge are blocked, rest are fine. Company is missing but it is on his channel.
@@Super_Tristan1005 Go on a site called daily motion. Sharpes challenge and peril are available to watch for free on there. Sharpes challenge is particularly good. Sharpe goes up against Dodd. Who was always a dark mirror for sharpe in the books. Like how he could of easily turned if he gave in to his bitterness about the upper class and the officer ranks
Well in the book it weren't really that many more, but at least they were able to enter the fort and cut down all of Ducot's men with ease. Here, 90% get cannistered LoL
"Tell them to take off their white crossbelts" - Sharpe I don't think it's the crossbelts that's giving them away, did you miss the bloody great white lapels and shiny bearskin plates they've got on?
The lapels were more beige, and were part of the uniform jacket (which would cover a white shirt.) The cross belts were bright white and formed a perfect target.
Sharpe and Federickson stayed at Lucille's farm chateaux after Napolitan 's first abidication and repaired the roof(in the books) when Napolian returned from Elba and began again to wage war, that led to Waterloo.
Their kit was too noisy. First lesson we got was silence. Strange for me as soldier who did SF work is have clanking noise. Darkness but sound gives away position, direction and numbers.
Achievement Earned: *Calvett’s Charge* (Better late than never! Was thinking of Pickett’s charge when I just thought, what the hell what’s a year later gonna be an issue?)
I just want someone to teach Sharpe how to sword fight, or at least to look like he knows. Two-fisting a one-handed sword in every fight is hilarious but at some point he has to figure out it's not all that useful.
Have you ever tried to swing a 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Trooper's sword? I have, it's hanging over my fireplace. Two or three meaningful swings with one hand, and a couple for show is all most people can manage. It weighs just under 3lbs, and the centre of gravity is nearly a foot in front of your hand. No one's fencing with it.
Okay so I know that they are the Old Guard but the fact that they advance slow march in tight formation against a swivel gun is strange, because from a tactical standpoint I think that they would have stood a better chance and lost fewer men if they advanced like skirmishers. I'm sure there is a reason like it is a right of passage to die in formation or something like that.
A small US group that consisted of 16 soldiers and a Sherman tank led by Captain John Lee teamed up with Major Josef Gangl who had 11 Wehrmacht soldiers and Kurt Seigfried Schrader who was a Waffen SS officer to defend high profile French POWs. They won but unfortunately Major Gangl was killed but is known as a hero in Austria and Schrader was pardoned because of his actions at Itter Castle and returned to his wife.
Not going to lie. Gaston is my favourite character.
Loyal.
Courageous.
Likes soup.
and mushrooms!
And hard as nails
And has one solid kick
No one does that like Gaston!
Man what a guy, GastoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOn!
I love these major battles with 10 guys on a side.
When sharpe took the eagle at talavera, there were 11
@@WhySoSerious551 love how the show the first wife of Sharpe had a kid.... then with his new love and romance that became a bit inconvenient for the plot, so the kid is never mentioned again just to keep the image of a good-looking vagabond rising through the ranks XD
Well, this was a night attack on a small villa, and there really one were like 10 guys in the book, and bout 30 defenders.
But yes, in the other battles there were usually more men on both sides.
@@95DarkFire In the book, I believe the bridge battle that Simmerson screwed up in Sharpe's Eagle actually got 300 men killed. I'd doubt the real Duke of Wellington would have gave Simmerson such a royal bollocking over losing 10 men.
I wouldn't call this a major battle, it's more of a raid, as the rifles often did since they were skirmishers.
They really did the dirty on the old guard in the show. In the book they stormed the building and cut through Duco's mercenaries like a knife though butter.
Budget constraints are the worst.
@@TheNerdForAllSeasons This time, it had nothing to do with budget. There were only ten french in the book as well, plus the three British.
However, they actually used stealth and tactics to infiltrate the building, they didn't advance in a line.
@@95DarkFire i also dont recall the book having cruel aztec rituals, but the lack of budget meant that some pages where probably just skimmed instead of read
"yadi yadi yada, some aztec gold, oh i guess theres aztecs in this"
Sometimes it feels like they had Nigel Farage as a script consultant. Just lazy stereotyping to appeal to the lowest class of viewer, instead of respecting the source material and having an arguably better show for it.
@@woodrobin ohhh shut it you plonker
Fighting alongside your enemy to defeat the enemy.
That's soldiering.
To quote Sun Tzu, "The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend"
I use the stone to destroy the stone.
-thanos
Fredrickson headbutting the dude at 4:26 then holding his head like "oww why tf did I do that" slays me every time
Theres a scene in one of the others with a similar thing, that time it was a punch though
I love how they actually show a headbut and a character instantly regretting it
Might regret it hitting someone in the face with your fist too.
Me: I've seen everything this series has to offer
Series: Here, watch Sharpe fight alongside Calvet
Me: :O
That made my day too.
Just wait, Ducos is returning with an army.
@Grand Moff Tarkin And that's what I meant a few Videos earlier: Calvet and his men won't just stand by and tolerate Traitors to their Emperor like Ducos and his men.
Heck, in the book, Calvet gets the Order to retrieve the Treasure and punish Ducos from Napoleon HIMSELF on Elba.
How’s things on the Death Star?
@@lewisn6790 Well, I'd say the mood is *explosive...* 😏
"the enemy approaches sir!"
"How many sergeant?"
"At least... 18 sir"
"Good God"
"Wheres Duco!?" He legged it the minute he heard gunfire...seriously, he can't afford getting another pair of spectacles smashed by Sharpe.
Thats the bit when Sharpe says "should have went to spec savers". Cornwell was ahead of his time.
1:21 - the only time a French line of battle has EVER been cheered by us Brits
Also, lets think about what has happened here overall... A combined force of the 60th Rifles, 95th Rifles and the Imperial Guard made an amphibious landing, placed an advanced group into a castle to scout out the grounds, brought up the main force to launch the full attack, captured the fortress and then used its guns on the reinforcements before sniping the enemy leader at the edge of rifle range.
Thats combined military operating
I'm pretty sure there were french lines in Crimea that might have been cheered by brits and vice versa
That's soldiering
But Duco was self-isolating...
Fergus Mcgowan You win best comment 🏆
Paid the price for his arrogance!
Never a good idea all throughout history
That Duco is a very bad boy 🧐
Attacking with a force of men from multiple nationalities
Now that's NATOing!
Hahah very nice
@@oaples8790 Your name made me chuckle.
@@antananarive6298 "civilians, future insurgents, you mean"
@@antananarive6298 i was trying to make a joke, Im not in any way defending their actions
@@antananarive6298 by your name i can see that you have a direct connection to that
Watching this in fear as I know sharpes waterloo shall soon be uploaded.... the old guard attacking with 20 men
And thousands of lancers. People who already watched waterloo would understand how my first sentence would make em chuckle
Technically the Middle Guard. The Old Guard were fighting the Prussians at Placenoit.
@@EzekielDeLaCroix yes I know, well young guard were at Plancenoit most of the old guard was in reserve still, but in the episode they call it the old guard
@@AttyDouro22 They weren't just reserve, they were deployed at Plancenoit and took the village from Prussian capture in a bayonet charge, but were forced to retreat(in an orderly manner) against Prussian numbers. The Young Guard suffered high casualties because they were all over the place.
The charm of low budget and no CGI, the real gold is in the writing and acting, such a good example for 2020 television on how to do it right.
That headbutt Frederickson did had me in stitches.
Jackie Chan school of movie combat.
@@fix0the0spade fair dues to him though, he took the helmet off first.
I never forgotten it when I bought the entire season. Textbook brawling XD
Which part?
Standing at the front of your formation and having everyone behind you die to grapeshot while you remain unharmed. That’s soldiering!
Being cross with a highly decorated general of Napoleon's Old Guard regarding military traditions and tactics. Now that's what I call soldiering. It could be ripe as well, though.
Perhaps it could be some ripe soldiering? Is such a thing possible?
@@Snipergod1024 I'm not sure. Maybe we have to ask Major Pyecroft and Captain Wickham if the combined use of soldering and ripe is appropriate.
1:20 that song is Aupres de ma blonde
Letting a 6'4 200+ pound Irishman loose in a building full of Italians is like letting the Minotaur fight the Gremlins. Harper could've cleared that building himself.
Allies with the French to beat the French
:- Good Soldiering
Letting ducos go.....
:-well I didn't see that coming
Chill, ducos will get his just reward. After all this is Sharpe revenge
@@dchegu Affirmative
That fight choreography was steaming hot merde.
Putting differences aside to retrieve stolen treasure from your arch enemy while fighting with the imperial guard.... that's soldiering.
Wasting some of your country's finest men by advancing unnecessarily slowly and loudly against fortified positions in a tight line formation, despite having night time as your advantige ?
Now that's 19th century Napoleonic Warfaring.
Can't say "bad officering", cause I like the character Calvet : P
Now that’s bad officering
Literally ten soldiers... lmao
@@QixTheDS It is ^^
@@WoWBaxter It's Sharpe. 10 people in this series, means it would have likely been +100 in RL xD
@@lkvideos7181 One of the reasons so many actors abandoned this show in the early seasons was because of how poor the working conditions and wages were, when compared to the budget. Look it up. The first Wellesley, Major Hogan, some of the significant riflemen... They all walked.
3:46 that's why you advance in skirmish order to lessen the effects of grapeshot
In about a 100 years the French will advance against German machine guns with unnecessarily high casualties but lots of pride and colorful uniforms.
So many French died in this mission.
I like that the enemy soldiers don't go down with one hit and put up a decent fight.
Achievement Earned:
*Vive la France*
KILLER JOY.....YOU SON OF A MOTHERLESS GOAT🤨
Do you have to post some variation of Achievement Earned on every video? Come on, I'm sure you can be more imaginative then that.
@@VeemaMusic Ah sure its all a bit of fun.
I’M SORRY!!!!
@@VeemaMusic
Much like soldiering, ripeness, and pointing out how low the budget is, there's just no stopping the achievement train.
You missed a pretty crucial part where they join Calvert in the first place and when Frederickson discovers Sharpe with Lucille.
Sweet William is awesome and underrated
Something something...
That's soldiering
You just skipped like 15 minutes of the episode, so I will do the context
From the last video soon after, Frederickson goes to Paris to find the glasses maker for Ducos. He finds him but soon later to be taken by Calvet and Gaston. Frederickson tells them that Sharpe doesn't have the treasure but instead Ducos. Oh and the glasses maker said there was an order for these exact same prescription glasses to Naples. Calvet and Gaston and Frederickson arrive back in Normandy where Lucille's farm is along with where Sharpe is currently. Batman and Robin and the old guards sing for Sharpe, and Frederickson sees Sharpe already taken Lucille for himself. Frederickson had a love interest towards Lucille. They get into an argument, eventually leading to this scene.
thank you, do you happen to know if there is anywhere I can watch the whole series? I can not find anything with or without my pirate hat on
@@Super_Tristan1005 ere ya go lad ua-cam.com/play/PL99B098754FF868E5.html just sharpes peril and challenge are blocked, rest are fine. Company is missing but it is on his channel.
@@AlphaLeader42 thank you my lord, with be being stuck at home this will come in handy
@@Super_Tristan1005 quite indeed old chap
@@Super_Tristan1005 Go on a site called daily motion. Sharpes challenge and peril are available to watch for free on there. Sharpes challenge is particularly good. Sharpe goes up against Dodd. Who was always a dark mirror for sharpe in the books. Like how he could of easily turned if he gave in to his bitterness about the upper class and the officer ranks
those cloth battlements are just some A grade props. you can even see the folds on them.
Captain Fredrickson is checking if he will gonna get a good teeth from the dead french 😂😂😂
Now that's dentistry
Someone must have told the Foley guys to make Sharpe and his lads just as loud as possible when sneaking up to the fort.
Duco: isolating himself thinking he’s safe
Coronavirus/Sharpe: better think twice mate
Playing out a siege battle with your 10 reenactment Friends, instead of going in silent with knives & swords...
SOLDIERING LEVEL OVER 9000!
Lol like 8 old guards, imagine if they had a a bigger budget would've been cool to see a full regiment of the old guards
Well in the book it weren't really that many more, but at least they were able to enter the fort and cut down all of Ducot's men with ease. Here, 90% get cannistered LoL
Must've hurt for those actors to fall down on those rocks.
That's bouldering!
they took it for granite
Like a Anglo- French A-Team !!!
How General Calvet got himself a troop of the Old Guard, idk. The scene doesn't do them justice, but did lead me to love Calvet as a character.
"Tell them to take off their white crossbelts" - Sharpe I don't think it's the crossbelts that's giving them away, did you miss the bloody great white lapels and shiny bearskin plates they've got on?
The lapels were more beige, and were part of the uniform jacket (which would cover a white shirt.) The cross belts were bright white and formed a perfect target.
4:10 “Oh Shit” in baguette
An enemy being in the way of the trajectory of Sharpe's or Fredricksons' flintlock weapon, now that's 'in my sighting'
1:41 - 1:42 CoD mode in Sharpe
That's modern way of Soldiering
What a Nock tease! Kept waiting and waiting for it to shoot.
"Will you tell your men to get rid of those bloody crossbelts."
"I'm sorry, who is the one wearing 30 gleaming white buttons on his jacket?"
What's amazing is that Sean Bean doesn't die lol
Unlike those other times, he had Harper watching his back,
Sharpe is why he dies in everything else
Forget the crossbelts, Sharpe, they should just put on their grey overcoats.
Am I the first one to notice that Frederickson didn't have a white eye in the fight scene in 2:53 and all that fight?
Probably because the contact lens used to give the effect impeded the actor's vision too much to be safe to wear during the sequence.
@@PinkThorn242 That's actually kinda true man
0:02 castle looks like it's made of cloth
Sharpe and Federickson stayed at Lucille's farm chateaux after Napolitan 's first abidication and repaired the roof(in the books) when Napolian returned from Elba and began again to wage war, that led to Waterloo.
The sneak attack sounds lite they had a brass band joining them
3:43 Well I'll be damned. That's some gun.
I love you sharpe
Their kit was too noisy. First lesson we got was silence. Strange for me as soldier who did SF work is have clanking noise. Darkness but sound gives away position, direction and numbers.
Where can I watch the whole show instead of these specific scenes
Amazon has them free with Britbox subscription, they also have a 7 day trial so you can binge entire season in that time.
Achievement Earned:
*Calvett’s Charge*
(Better late than never! Was thinking of Pickett’s charge when I just thought, what the hell what’s a year later gonna be an issue?)
Duco has fled with all the toilet paper he can carry. He'll be a rich man by tea time!
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Where's Duco?
He's down in the basement mixing up some of that glue of his.
Iam this land 🇧🇪💂♂️
this is actually me in mount and blade. carrying a small force to siege the castle. but its just without sharpe and i failed the attack.
Storming the battlements with 10 men, now that’s soldiering
*GENERAL* Calvet commanding the full force of his army, 20 men.
Now that's soldiering
4:32 me fight with my teacher 3:36 guards shooting my class mates
I just want someone to teach Sharpe how to sword fight, or at least to look like he knows. Two-fisting a one-handed sword in every fight is hilarious but at some point he has to figure out it's not all that useful.
Have you ever tried to swing a 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Trooper's sword? I have, it's hanging over my fireplace. Two or three meaningful swings with one hand, and a couple for show is all most people can manage. It weighs just under 3lbs, and the centre of gravity is nearly a foot in front of your hand. No one's fencing with it.
@@christopherdean1326 The cavalry sword is meant to be used whilst mounted??? damn
@@aname6794 Yeah, who would have thought?.....
calvet and gaston started with 10 soldiers but lost 8 of them just marching towards the castle lol
French general shooting a combatant who sneaks up behind an Irish Sergeant Major, now that’s soldiering!
Gaston? Gaston?! Oooohhhohohohho Gaston!
Which French regiment/battalion that fought with Ducos against Calvet n the Imperial Guard?
I think that’s the french imperial guard cavalry vs the imperial guard or their from Bavaria
Soldiering with soldiers? That's soldiering.
his name is Ducos not Duco
Okay so I know that they are the Old Guard but the fact that they advance slow march in tight formation against a swivel gun is strange, because from a tactical standpoint I think that they would have stood a better chance and lost fewer men if they advanced like skirmishers. I'm sure there is a reason like it is a right of passage to die in formation or something like that.
Went from this 3:42
To this real quick: 3:45
Yup. That's canister-shot. But I doubt a single swivel gun would actualy do that much damage
I watched the whole series and never saw anyone reload after the first two episodes.
A real soldier can fire three rounds per minute in any weather... as long as there are three loaded rifles available for his use.
Achievement Earned:
*GIGN OPEN UP!!*
Best I can think of right now.
I think they would simply say "GENDARMERIE NATIONALE! OUVREZ!"
4:09 Richard Branson?
The Guards are barely dressed... Hoped that Sharpe had more budget!
Are we missing a scene? I feel like we’re missing a scene.
I explained context in my earlier comment
How did Sharpe end up side by side with Calvet?
To be honest, I've been tempted to buy Commands and Colors Napoleonic's so I can try to make my own Crimean war battles.
I have it. I always pretend that the rifle unit is Sharpe
Kinda reminds me of that battle where German soldier join the American in defending a castle from the nazi.
benyamin yasser chin It is indeed quite similar to the Battle of Castle Itter in 1945.
A small US group that consisted of 16 soldiers and a Sherman tank led by Captain John Lee teamed up with Major Josef Gangl who had 11 Wehrmacht soldiers and Kurt Seigfried Schrader who was a Waffen SS officer to defend high profile French POWs. They won but unfortunately Major Gangl was killed but is known as a hero in Austria and Schrader was pardoned because of his actions at Itter Castle and returned to his wife.
Yup-- and theoretically, they're in pre-production for a movie about that. Nothing else heard.
Soldiering....
That's soldiering!
i don't remember this episode. someone remind me how come sharpe and the frogs are working together?
Did 8 or so guardsmen just charge at a castle...
I know they might have trouble getting actors but this is really the bare minimum 😂
The medieval method of conquering a castle was to crawl up the toilets, so any frontal assault is an improvement.
it started with 10 but 8 of them got killed before they even got to the castle lol
Viva la France
Koordynaty celu 49°52, 10'N 19°41, 21'E .
Chain or plate, bronze or steel, leather or kevlar.
Make or material, it doesn't matter.
The best armor is plot armor.
They make a lot of noise for recognisance
That is ducos fort
Old Guard in Spain, when Napoleon fighting in Europe for his life, interesting
10 old guard marching lmao
Who is Duco? Nation?
March France 🇫🇷
Sharp + France atteckt enemy fort 💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇫🇷 enemy 💂♂️💂♂️🇪🇸🇪🇦
This was a tad too graphic for my liking
This enemy Spanjes 🇪🇦🇪🇸🇪🇦🇪🇸🇪🇦🇪🇸🇪🇦🇪🇸💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️
Full moon that night 😉
Iam like the France
Richard Branson avoiding a hostile takeover.
French Dragoons had straight swords not curved sabers
Napoleon old guerd atteckt enemy fort