Sharpe Shoots Prince Of Orange In Revenge | Sharpe
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Despite Patrick Harper's warning, Sharpe takes matters into his own hands.
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What would be the best way to view this? DVD box set? or is it on any streaming service?
@@F4Wildcat It's on UA-cam. ua-cam.com/video/zZegw3Otpkc/v-deo.html
Sharpe's Rifles: "Chosen Man, huh? Well, I didn't choose you"
Sharpe's Waterloo: "They were mine, I've chosen them"
HAHA! thats so true lmao
'Just keep out of it!'
'...aim for his belly.'
Harper was committed to doing everything he could to save Sharpe from what he knew would have him hanged. Once he knew his friend had made up his mind and nothing would change it, he *immediately* switched to giving him honest advice on how best to hurt the bastard. I hope one day to have a friend like Harper.
Harper was just as close with the Chosen Men as Sharpe was, if not more... he was only there because somebody needed to finish the job if Sharpe missed.
"Aim for his belly" Still a sergeant offering good aiming advice.
Sharp and Harper. Best duo ever. The Prince of Orange never stood a chance.
Aim for his belly.
Whats known as being "gut shot".
You shoot someone in the stomach its not very often immediately fatal. One the stomach, full of digestive acids, is ruptured all those acids burn into the sourounding areas. Its probably the most painful way to die from a gunshot or knife wound.
Aim for the belly, meant to make him die a long and excruciatingly painful death. Pure venom.
@@michaelcochran5619 Heard it before. Makes sense. Nice description you have there too.
@@dogestranding5047 Thanx. Think l need to work on my spelling tho lol
Lmao
Fragging has existed ever since there were officers who earned a good fragging.
There was a Roman centurion who earned the nickname "Another" due to his preferred method of punishment, which was to beat the subjects of his ire with vine stick (a symbol of his rank). He'd use it in such an aggressive manner that it'd snap, and he'd call for a replacement, "Another!"
He was found dead in his tent one morning.
*remembers Army days*
Oh yes
Here Here.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher He triggered a mutiny. It was not a simple case of fragging. It spread throughout several Roman units on the Rhine before being suppressed. I think there is an account of it in Tacitus.
@@stevekaczynski3793
Thanks for the added context and source! I'll look deeper into it.
0:37 'You, Sir, are a silk stocking full of sh*t' is an actual insult uttered by Napoelon, a.k.a. 'Boney' himself, at Talleyrand, his own Minister of Foreing Affairs.
To be fair to Boney, Tally was a silk stocking full of sh*t.
@@khronostheavenger8923 But he was France's silk stocking full of sh*t.
And Bonaparte was right about Talleyrand
@@MIMALECKIPL I was
Very large difference between Talleyrand and Orange, though. Orange was a brave but ineffective military commander with absolutely no understanding of strategy. Talleyrand was a skilled, pragmatic, gifted politician who held absolutely no allegiance and was more skilled at staying on top through turncoat backstabbing than any other great man of his time.
Saying "make high cockalorum" - that's soldiering.
That was the deathblow
And Britishing!
Henri Herbert - And a "Silk stocking, full of shit" .... Now that right there is REAL
soldiering!!
Funny, this is an English show, yet they can't keep it together and have to degrade the Dutch.... is it coz they are still salty over the fact that the Dutch invented the concept of marines and successfully took their flagship under their noses on their own river Thames?
They got the Dutch words right of that Danish officer that shouted orders to his men (not in this vid) but the accent sounded totally ridiculous, no Dutch person sounds like that. I even had to listen a couple of times to know what he was actually saying, that's how bad his accent was. But I do say if I look to our current Dutch King.... our royalty isn't exactly blessed with competence with King beer can. Even his spouse admitted he was dumb dumb the first. Caused quite a stir in our country. But looking to prince Charles and his offspring in England... it's not much better over there I'm afraid... It's why Queen Elizabeth doesn't abdicate, even she thinks her own son is as incompetent as fuck.
@@stijnvdv2 - Australian here!! When was it,
or witch War was it in, that the Dutch made
off with the Brits own Flagship? I'd love to
read more about that raid, how bloody
cheeky was that? And you bet that they
were probably quite salty for MANY a long
long year after!! But, that's War, and better
to have it stolen, I suppose, even if right
under your nose, than the moral sapping
utter disaster it would have been, had they
lost it in open battle. This is a "security
breach", not a "Military disaster", see the
difference?
As for language, maybe, and I can't really
be sure, but maybe, because the actor
playiny the Danish officer, already able to
to speak in a language that may have more
in common with it than English dose, just
gave him a big head start in the spoken
language part. But from what I do know
about Dutch, and Dutch dialects, I have
read that the Fresian Language (or dialect,
there is still some debate) is the closets
member of the Germanic Language family
to modern English. As I say, I cannot be so
sure myself, as i don't speak Dutch, and I
only have a tiny bit of German that I can
remember from high school in the 1970s,
so that can help, just a little, particularly
with written stuff. But I would really like to
know more about the raid in the Thames,
to steel the "Mighty British Flagship", of his
Majesty's Navy", what a victory for the
Nederlands!!
P.S - At least one might still have SOME of
his "Honour" left, if the ship had been lost
in a Battle. That would be totally different,
of course.
Insulting an incompetent superior officer then telling a sharpshooting war hero the officer had his men killed. Now that's soldiering
Do you know that this is all historical incorrect.
@@hilleoomen2603 The entire series is, apart from small extracts of Enemy and Company. Waterloo is the worst of all of them, though.
@@hilleoomen2603 Don't really care
What are the French saying as they march?
@@rixille They are saying 'Vive L'Empereur' roughly translated to 'Long Live the Emperor' They are referring to Napoleon Bonaparte
you can hear the pain when he said "HE WONT KILL ANYMORE"
I love how that officer looked away...
Cockalorum = a self-important little man. That's actually a really useful word. I find that lately we seem surrounded by cockalorums just about everywhere. Sharp would be a busy man for sure.
Except our cockalorum are cuckold and need a sharp hand, not a sharpshooter, though the latter may be just as effective. We've too many a Rossendale, graciously few Billy's
Shooting anything orange is great
Its seems, there may be as many Sharpes soon enough...
Thanks for that Doug, I have some body at work I am going to use the word on
Or a cockwomble.
Making an electrical connection using a mix of soft metal and flux, heated with a hot iron...now THAT'S soldering!
Brilliant
Ah yes, the Solder's favourite commander - Arthur Weldsley.
Comment stealing loser get a life
Long ago, it was suggested that I continue soldering and working with electronics, but alas I did not make the connection.
Soldier.
God bless you Macduff from all of us!
yes he turned a blind eye, good man
Turning a blind eye from a man doing what must be done? That’s soldiering.
@@Southern_Crusader Right as rain,Good Sir!!!
Love the emotion from Sean Bean in this scene
You can see Paul Bettany (the Prince of Orange) laugh after the officer says "High Cockalorum" LOL
Or rather, not laugh out loud !
Harper and Sharpe are ultimate bros.
H: "Don't do it."
S: "Imma do it, go away so you aren't involved."
H: "Fine. i'll tell you how to do it proper then"
*meanwhile in the distance* MacDuff: "I've been stuck temporarily blind by the fog of war... oh dear."
Shooting the Prince of Orange in revenge? Now that's soldiering...
I guess they didn't have grenades in those days. 'Veteran '66-68
@@rogeranderson8763 they have grenades from XVII century or even earlier. But it was detonated by knot, like bombs in old cartoons.
@@rogeranderson8763 they do have grenades, what do you think the grenadiers are for?
@@jace8785 they're for show!
no really, they're just there to distinguish common soldiers to more veteran ones, and they were given more elite status and paid higher
@@robowisanveithasung6022 there were real geneds btw
I guess that the old guard have deeper voices and that's how Harper can tell the difference from their "Vive la France" and regular line infantry "Vive la France"
They are chanting Vive l'empereur (Long live the emperor).
Their gonubles have dropped lower ..
or if you have a vested interest in surviving, you pay attention to who's left on the opposing side, and when fresh troops arrive, do the math. taint to hard to figure out who the reserve units are.
I think the distinguishing sound of the Imperial Guard were their kettle drums.
A much manlier Vive la France, is the mustaches I say.
The box set of this series is one of my prized possessions.
ITV at its best in the 90s I like to think. I also have this boxset, and Hornblower too.
@@DavidLee-df888 Amazing that they could make such excellent stuff for about 50p per episode, whereas now huge budgets get blown on far worse shows
@@CarzorStelatis I know what you meant to say, but I believe you have it the wrong way around...
Costume drama such as this is actually very expensive to make, with costs like (decent) writers, locations, costumes, lots of extras, practical effects (explosions etc), and of course salaries for multiple decent actors. This is why many costume/period dramas tend to be co-productions these days to spread costs/markets.
In the "old days", the producers made the best of what money they had to work with, and brilliant stuff like this was often the result. I like to think that British TV is amongst the best in the world thanks to, or even because of, the various financial and other constraints it is exposed to. But then, I would say that since I live in a creative city, Bristol.
Reality shows are popular these days since they are mostly semi or non scripted, and use wannabe actors who don't necessarily need to be paid a lot, maybe just sponsored. These kinds of cheap, and cheaply made, shows are the ones which make even low budget dramas look good...
In the actual battle, Prince of Orange is actually wounded.
huh intresting
Shooter was also unknown
The long held story is the Wellington sent a Rifleman to do the job,to remove the Prince of Orange from the field
Yep, that's true and the lion statue marks where he was wounded according to the Waterloo museum website.
Paddy O'Yakkin yep he took about 5m-10m off the height of Wellington’s ridge for it.
I love that the silk stocking quote comes from sharpe earlier in the episode
Unfortunately Mr. Cornwell plagiarized it from le emperor. Napoleon said this to his former foreign minister Tallyrand.
@@Rumpelstyltskin I heard that a long time ago and always wondered if it was true because the insult has better alliteration in English. In French it's _merde dans un bas de soie_ which is harsh but not very catchy.
In the book Sharpe just wounds him and Harper mocks him for it.
My step=father turned me onto this series. And it was thanks to this series that I learned about an actor named Sean Bean. I love this series.
Paul Bettany trying to keep a straight face always makes me chuckle
In fact the prince of Orange was a brave and effective leader and he found him self wounded in battle at waterloo and he many times led his troops at personaly in the front lines.
He was deffenetly no coward
Nobody said that except the script writer, its a piece of fiction.
And he could spell!
He was... not exactly efficient. Even in the words of his own allies, the fellow was rather inexperienced (He was 22 during the battle.) He wasn't as bad as portrayed in the show, but definitely careless as he did indeed inadvertently march the King's German Legion to their dooms in line, leading to French Cavalry attacks decimating them. He wasn't a dick that threw men's lives away, but he definitely had no place to be leading said men into a battle against the French as he did at Waterloo.
Brave he might have been but he got a lot of men killed with his incompetence!!
Britian historically has some of the toughest soldiers ever being led by completely incompetent morons...
Hagman's and Harris' deaths were some of the few on-screen deaths that truly shook me. I hadn't expected them to die after coming so far with Sharpe. Really left a bad taste in my mouth about this episode, the series ended here for me.
War is like that...M*A*S*H did the same thing in killing off Henry Blake.
That is unfortunately how war goes.. Plenty of good men, career men, friends. Dead from poor command.
isn't that the point of showing the cruelty of war, that no one is safe, what would you want them to do?
It's from the books, not the episode's fault.
Achievement Earned:
*Hit Marker!!*
*Shit Filled Silk Stocking*
This is what Napoleon called Talleyrand.
how many achievements has been earned
Paul Bettany is so wonderful; even when he is being a villain.
“You sir, are a silk stocking full of shit!” Never before has a serious insult been said with such respect.
0:25 i wanna open a pub called High Cockalorum.
LOL That would be an awesome name. I'd buy a drink there
Need a waitress my sister needs a job
Only if you set up in a well to do area full of rich idiots. It would serve as a sly insult.
quite a good drinking song; ua-cam.com/video/4lfhRVk4J1c/v-deo.html
geekdiggy : If you build it, they will come...
Now this is pod racing
This is soldering
That's high cockalorum
How dare you sir. This is soldiering!
Now this is pod-soldiering.
Melting a flux to join two thin strips of metal - now that's soldering
Leaning into a rifle with the point that joins your upper arm to your neck - now that's shouldering
Er..no its not. Flux is a cleaner. Low melting point alloy is solder.
This series does the Prince of Orange real dirty. The Prince of Orange's courage and good nature made him very popular with the British, who nicknamed him "Slender Billy".
The British army lieutenant and military historian William Siborne blamed many casualties during the Waterloo Campaign on William's inexperience, incompetence, desperation to save face, and grossly-inflated opinion of his own military abilities. In response, Siborne was accused by Lieutenant-General Willem Jan Knoop of many inaccuracies and contradictions. An inspection of the archives of Siborne by General Francois de Bas in 1897 confirmed the selective use of sources and "numerous miscounts and untruths".
Yeah, but at that point, it's one man's word versus that of another. The issue with studying history is outside of verifying sources, you always have to remember that what you're reading are merely the writings of another human, so you must take context into it all.
Eusebius is a great example of this. A man who was in Emperor Constatine I's inner circle, he had every reason to sing high praise of the Emperor, it's why a lot of his public works are treated as unreliable by historians.
I understand this very well. I love reading classical sources like Caesars writings and the commentaries on them by historians. The thing is that, for as far as I was able to find out, there was mostly praise for the prince of orange untill Siborne's thesis came up, utilising very selective sources. I know there ain't such a thing as truly historically accurate, but there is more evidence pointing at the Prince of Orange being an able military man than there is to him being a coward with no feel for strategy and tactics.
@@martijnkrol842 He did make a minor screw up, he committed a regiment of king germans legion to defend La Haye Sainte at a terrible time, but otherwise he did a good job both before and during the battle.
@ LOL, Cornwell an Ultra-Nationalist! Well I never.
@S T
"Largely unused in the battle' Waterloo or Quatre-Bras?
Because in the former their role was minor, in the latter, which enabled the battle of Waterloo to even take place at all, they were crucial.
And that's what rubbed British ultra-nationalists the wrong way. Without the Dutch (and German and other) troops at Quartre-Bras, the while British military there would've been split off from its allies and wrapped up and destroyed piecemeal by Napoleon.
The Dutch also advertised their exploits as such; "We enabled the coalition to work because we stopped Napoleon from carrying out his plan, forcing him to fight a pitched battle instead", massively offending British ultra-nationalists who wanted all the glory from beating Napoleon all by themselves.
And that's okay for an ignorant 19th century ultra-nationalist who knows nothing.
But it's not okay for a late 20th century writer who knew better.
1:29
He wont kill anymore. *Old Minecraft pain sound*
UUF.
Hahahahahahahaha
Love a good clip featuring a "Sharpe Shooter."
“High cockalorum” that was an actual line this dude had to shout will trying to be serious lmao
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The writing was consistently appalling throughout the entire series, but this episode was the worst of all. Probably because it had so much to live up to.
@@theradgegadgie6352 Why are you even here?
@@angelfan16 I'm an amateur historian and re-enactor of 19th century warfare. I have every right to be here. Agreeing with you is not a precondition.
@@theradgegadgie6352 what’s your opinions on the Ottomans
1:31 is this where the default Minecraft hurt sound came from?
It might be!
It.. very well might be!
LMAOOOOO
No sir, I didn't see anything. Was too busy soldiering.
I love Doggett's outburst....now that's soldiering!
Rest easy, Sharpe, The South Essex will be in good hands with him and Price.
"A silk socking full of shit" what a great insult.
Always amused me that the Drama has MacDuff turning a Blind Eye, Instead of Leading on Macbeth style.
Fun fact - MacBeth doesn't say 'lead on'.
The actual line is 'Lay on Macduffe, And damn’d be him, that first cries hold, enough.'
'Lay on' means to give it everything you've got, don't hold back...
@@davidcarr4991 got to love Artistic License :)
Tim Curry had to hold back laughing when yelling ‘space!’ while this Donnet guy managed to deliver his whole smackdown to the Prince -silly words included- with a pseudo-straight face? Now that’s acting.
Where is Tim Curry?
@@Darksky1001able He's escaped to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
Waterloo battle, English view: Prussians are not there (they just attacked the French rear-right two hours before), all the blame for frightful losses is on Prince of Orange (as if Wellington left any initiative to his subordinates, including a Dutch prince). And a true hero has the right to shoot general officers in the back (not many British officers would have finished the war, considering the high proportion without proper training or experience).
Macduff a real OG
I head that the Prince survived his wounds, but became so upset with how battlefield medicine is performed he became a Dr and served in the royal navy aboard HMS Surprise.
I'd say that Sharpe really had good vision being able to take that shot.
Very sharp shot. He could have made the audition for "Shooter" (that (.22 ?) shot, standing in a rowboat was impossible)
I've literally read all the books in this series and I've yet to watch a single one of these films. I need to get the box set...
Lots of lovely women populate this series as well. (Helena Michell, Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Hurley, et al.)
The battles are a bit of a let-down, due to budgetary constraints; but the stuff in between is often golden. Loads of great character actors being beastly to each other; like Game of Thrones, but without the disappointment. I'd love to see someone use modern CGI to flesh out the battle scenes with a few tens of thousands of soldiers, and some shots to better establish the geography of the battlefields.
Get it.🇬🇧🇬🇧
2:04 Now that's soldiering.
This is peak soldiering
Dude...
And bringing in the Old guard too. The desperation is legit at this point. This is akin to Emperor Palpatine ordering in both Darth Vader And his imperial blood cloaked body guards into battle.
Forget the guard, once Vader enters the fray it’s friggin over for everyone.
Things I didn't expect to happen today... I didn't expect to see Ned Stark shoot Dryden Voss!
At 0.5 the actors did well to control their horses when the out of control one went past
I never heard of this series until UA-cam started recommending it when I watched some Historical European vids.. Where can I find the series.. A&E I bet.. I will look it up.
“We’ve killed officers in blue coats, red coats…even officers in white coats.” Looks like orange is no exception haha
We've all had that boss.
Damn right
"A silk stocking ful of shit!" I'm definitely using that.
Sorry guys, you gotta stop. He declared "too much". You know the rules.
Even here, you have to love Bettany's acting
Should be labeled, “Sharpe saves what remains of a company from an inept commander.”
These officers have nerves that are ice cold. Insane how they're able to hold their spy glass so steadily. Not one twitch. Ice cold bro.
"You are shit in a silk stocking" that is an incredibly good insult....and definitely soldiering.
"Silk stocking full of shit"
@@BrokeSpike Yeah I got the order of words wrong, still I called a coworker that insult just last week, still works!
This is the best ever thing to watch with subtitles. "Iced bonies doughnut. (applause.)"
2:40 Now that was some damn fine soldiering McDuff!
18 silk stockings full of shit disliked this video.
soldiers get flogged, officers get fragged.
"Orange prince bad!"
That’s silk stocking.
Guy looking out for Sharpe in the house....now that's soldiering!
The sound at 1:30 is that where minecraft got it from? If so that's soldering.
Nice shootin', Tex. 😎
Ah, that's the battle where Hastings became captain
Referencing Hercule Poirot? Now that’s Soldie- Detectiving
Fair Play Tom Doggett You Saw The Light and Yes..... That Is Soldiering !
The "Prince of Orange" was a 22 year old punk at Waterloo being there out of Diplomatic necessity for Wellington's Coalition of Allies against Napoleon. Two days before Waterloo this "Prince of Orange" caused tremendous British casualties by countermanding the orders of British General Picton by ordering them to "form in line" out of their Cavalry Square position. Almost immediately they were caught by Marshal Ney's Cuirassiers and the French captured their Flag, as seen in the Epic Waterloo (1970) film. As Ney said "I caught Wellington at Quatre Bras, he's retreating"!!!!
0:29 -- He's trying hard not to laugh.
To bloody hell, Vision was fighting back in this war too!
That British soldier in the house didn’t see a thing
The prince was not killed, he was wounded in the battle and later became king of the Netherlands. He served under Wellington as a british officer in the peninsular campaign as well, so he did have some experrience.
Modern day: oh shit bro, I seem to have lost my grenade... Still have the pin tho...
Back in the day this was the equivalent of fragging
The Prince of Orange never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Sharpe was a made guy, orange wasn't.
@Degree7 Go home and get your shinebox.
@Degree7 party pooper
@Degree7 hahahaha
Well done, that was a great shot!
@0:53 i don't think that horse was meant to run like that lol
The devout Scot looks the other way when he witnesses the removal of British royalty with non-British blood.
He's not British royalty, that was 1690.
@@CarzorStelatis ...remember...
Though the Jacobins wanted some prissy Catholic Frenchman as king so it's not like they fought for a Briton on the throne.
The last member of the British Royal Family was Scottish, Stuart, Queen Anne.
The last English King was King Harold 1066 after that William the Bastard ( Conqueror) gave the English nobles the Boot and replaced them with his Norman backers they went up as far as Scotland. Robert the Bruce's ancestors were Norman's as was Wallaces I believe not 100 % sure on him. The Norman's even went out to Ireland. So even their nobles were of Normandy decent.
Richard the First ( Lionheart) hardly spent any time here in England and is buried in Normandy.
William the IV or King Billy as the Protestant Irish call him, came from Orange.
George I a Hanovarian couldn't even speak English and only spoke German.
Our present Royal Family goes back to Him and their title should be Saxe Coburg Gote not Windsor which was only changed during WW1.
So this Orange was related to but not part of our Royal Family.
I understand the real Prince of Orange fought bravely nothing like the one portrayed here, but Sharpe needed a baddy so blame the Dutchman eh.
@@andrewmstancombe1401 they're all related due to the nature of royal marriages, neither william IV or George I were chosen randomly, they both had claims to the british throne, just weren't the direct heirs, parliment found the closest acceptable(Protestant pretty much) person with a claim and here you're king now, even william the bastard was said to have an oath of edward the confessor making the throne his(ymmv if he was lying or not), also harold was an anglo saxon, 10 points for you if you can work out where the saxon bit comes from
Reading the comments is very amusing. Quite a few Cloggies taking it very personally, perhaps they should remember it's only a tv programme!
They can be very sensitive about themselves.
@@Pitcairn2 Yesh but then you witness Lou Lou and Coco
Though its a bit of a continuation of a theme..watch the classiv film Waterloo and you might be thinking there were no Dutch Belgians there at all
Sharpe shooting Vision in the stomach easier than Thanos - that's soldiering
when you assemble into columns and go marching with your rifles. now THAT'S shouldering!
Is that a very young Paul Bettany playing the prince?
Why yes that is vision.
YOU DID IT AGAIN!
pitty about this . Really liked the series end they end like this??? The prince of orange stood with his men he was wounded in battle and returned once his wounds were treated. Having him portrait like this is a bit insulting. Dutch troops had a higher death rate then the Brits, as they were in the front line most of the time...pitty pitty
He was also inexperienced at field command and like the show portrays had line infantry in line exposed to cavalry. The King's German Legion took unnecessary heavy casualties because of it
@@LordErebusBloodmoon would have to look into that. Buthe certainly was not the arogant coward he is set up to be here. Frankly I can not immagine there being any in these kinds of wars
Another pedantic Cloggie ...
They should have put Sharpe on duty in the colonies. But a remake could use the Spartacus Blood And San/Gods Of the Arena/Vengeance/ War of The Damned Treatment and so could Hornblower....
@@robvoncken2565 So agree. The stakes were so high that men of competence were required. Sought by Napoleon and if they were to win so also the allies.
YOU DO NOT MESS WITH MR BEAN
You know you’re a right arse when sentries notably don’t notice you or your shooter and his plume of smoke.
That kind of marksmanship - he's a /real/ Sharpeshooter
Thank God!
the price of victory is never cheap over 100 years before another orange was taking his holidays over here in ireland and before that another great oliver cromwell doing gods work lest we forget these 2 icons we still worship today as we live free in Northern Ireland UK NO SURRENDER THEN NOW AND ALWAYS
0:29 Corpsing during a scene?
Now that's Orangeing
Where else can you go and see Ned Stark shoot Dryden Vos?
Well hello there Vision.He's come a long way since Sharpe.
what is this high cockolorum he speaks off? Sounds like fun!
is it expensive?
where can I get me some of that?
"They were mine, I chose them, they fought with me"
:(
I know this is a fiction, but in real life the prince of orange (willem II) played a key role in preparing for and winning the battle of Quatre-Bas, which allowed for the battle at waterloo to take place in in the first place. He is remembered as a key figure in that war. Obviously Sharp is a fiction and its more fun to have an incompetent Royal from another country then a competent general, but it still rubs me slightly the wrong way that this is the depiction of him that we got.
I don't know why it bothers you so much, honestly. We get the same in other films . Look at the Dutch film 'The Admiral' for instance, or anything written by Mel Gibson lol..
Most of the aristocracy from all countries is depicted unfavorably in Sharpe. Especially the English.