Ridley Scott gets to waste money on Napoleon, meanwhile Sharpe over here was showing Waterloo with 30 people, with the price of a sandwich as the entire budget. And it is somehow *better*
@@FaceonthewallHornblower had a way larger budget than sharpe and they were both ITV shows, ITV was basically created as a direct rival to BBC to challenge their monopoly.
I believe I was most assiduous in obeying both your general order to watch all Sharpe videos and your particular order to watch this video. I have friends at Horseguards sir.
I swear on oath that no one heard me make any promise with respect to leaving a like for this video to Major Lennox, sir! *(totally leaves a like for this video)*
He even took over a russian mafia cartel, stole military satellites and was only stopped in his cuban base by the combines efforts of MI5, CIA and the USMC.
Disobeying the Prince of Orange and at the same time still getting rewarded with the toughest military missions and getting promoted to Commander? Now THAT is soldiering.
Sharpe was NOT promoted to the rank of Commander for that is a Naval rank. He was promoted to the rank of Lt Colonel at Waterloo and later to Colonel for his mission in India.
@@freemanlee5655 @MrJpc1234 17 hours ago So your partially right in the Army (British Army at least) there is no "Rank" called "Commander" so they would never promote into it.....however there is various positions that an officer will take the CO (Commanding Officer) and in some circumstances they would be referred to as a "Commander"
My favorite is the guy dying when the british commander said to make ready but hadn't actually ordered anyone to fire. One french guy just arbitrarily collapses. XD Probably the only survivor of that fight lol
The French soldier bursting through the gates of Hougamont armed with an axe at 11:30 is based on a real event wherein a huge French officer, Lieutenant Legros, managed to break into Hougamont. A quick-thinking British sergeant took some men and instead of attacking the French cut them off by shutting the gates behind them, thus saving Hougamont.
I thought of something similar but its hard to top Waterloo. I was thinking however doing a movie with an older Sean Bean and preventing an assassination of Princess Victoria. Call it sharpe's knighthood.
The real Prince of Orange, spent all day moving around on the battlefield, then got shot because he was such an obvious target and therefore an idiot. Meanwhile Wellington and his staff, stayed in carefully positioned places. That's why he was called Silly Billy. Sharpe dressed as a French country gentleman. 😁
The thing is the gentlemen were really like that. Bad form, don't you know to get emotional or excited. Manners and understatement were natural to them.
This is why the Duke of Wellington gave cause for Sandhurst to be created to train ‘professional officers’ to replace those ‘gentlemen officers’. Thank God.
That is also why the United States created the Service Academies after the War of Independence beginning with Military Academy and the Naval Academy, then the Coast Guard Academy at Kings Point, the Merchant Marine Academy and finally the Air Force Academy in 1955. During the Civil War, various U S Army State Militia Regiments created officer's training schools and the regular U S Army and U S Navy offered direct commissions to qualified army, navy and marine noncommissioned officers. Finally, in 1916 the first Army ROTC unit was established at Norwich University which led to the establishment of Army and Naval ROTC units at many universities and colleges, the creation of Army, Navy and Coast Guard Officer's Candidate Schools, Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Course(PLC) and state Merchant Marine Academies that granted Naval Reserve Commissions as well as Merchant Marine Officer's Licenses to graduates. An officer is supposed to be a "gentleman" or "gentlewoman" as well as a professional officer....some are and some are not! I was!
@ yes but American was not plagued with idiots who thought because they were born into a fancy family they were entitled to command men in battle. You did have some idiots who didn’t know how to run a war but every country has those and a good war weeds them out pretty quick, look at your own civil war, three years the rebels ran rings around the union.
Only its not how the Prince really was, many un-historical liberties where taken. The Dutch fought bravely and even covered Wellington's "tactical" retreat at Quatre Bras.
@@geoffreyrichardson8738 Parliament also banned the buying of commissions after the disasters during the Crimean War, like the Charge Of The Light Brigade.
Ah yes, the immortal currently going by the name Sean Bean. A man with a good heart and chose to end many of his lives among mortals in war. And holy crap! Is that Capt Arthur Hastings from Hercule Poirot at 16:38!?
23:21 "I believe I am killed, ma'am..." And far too young to be dying for anything, including honor. But at least he saved those women from an even worse fate. 😔
The author went back and wrote several books around Pte. Sharp... grabbing his first fortune in India, then leading a covert action through the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark. One can only wish these were filmed as the very young Sharp saves various political snobs and engages beautiful women... sigh.
Ive been a hornblower fan for years now and ive always heard of Sharpe but never really had a chance to get into it... this here is a quality youtube recommendation
I really like the fact that the engineer that breached the gate wasn't, muck like his real counterparts, didn't catch a round to the face immediately like everyone else, but had the honor of having enough "Captain" time to lead his charge in before being cut down. That was a really dramatic scene for that and it makes it better.
First minute above offers a visually vivid demonstration of why regiments massed squares made such a tempting and easy target for massed artillery to concentrate on.
Having been a fan of Mr Sharp for many years I must admit i was slightly surprised to see he had changed service and joined the navy since the last time i saw him. I am well aware of the rank of commander as that as my grandfathers final rank in the Royal Navy during WWII.
Despite the total misrepresentation of the Prince of Orange, who according to those who fought with him as a good and brave commander, Sharp remains one of, if not the best depiction of the Napoleonic wars on film and TV.
Its not just about winning battles but yeah. I saw him like the army version. Both had clever tactics, quick wits, and followed their duty to the letter.
Just realized that's Paul Bettany as Prince William! Didn't realize he was in another great Napoleonic flick besides Master and Commander. After all, surprise in on his side ;)
I was a big fan of the books I had to buy at Barnes And Noble back in the 1990’s in the US and love watching what’s available on youtube. Did they make a series About Sharpe at Trafalgar one of the books I remember reading.
Line battles were a product of their time. Muskets were cheaper to produce than rifles and easier to train soldiers to use. You were more likely to hit more targets with volley fire due to a musket's inaccuracy, so it became a mission of training soldiers to reload quickly and stand their ground when under fire.
Wellington not telling Sharpe about Harper being the missing man was somewhat ridiculous. If he wanted the "best man for the job" that's not something he would've withheld. It's not even honorable.
I love the serie. But its a shame that they make the Prince of Orange look so bad and incompetent. In truth he was a fine commander and held the advance of at Quatre-Bras. Napoleon spoke highly of the Dutch bravery and the Prince. But the British want to be the heroes and taking al the credits. But in fact ,there where more foreign troops than English at the battle of Waterloo
There was also more French troops at Dunkirk than British, doesn't make it any less of a heroic British story, does it? There was more British and Canadian troops on D-Day, does that take away the heroism of the US servicemen on Omaha, Utah and Point du Hoc? That's before we even mention they got there on mostly British ships, crewed by British men. So, under your logic, was the successful capture of Omaha beach purely thanks to the British? Waterloo was a stunning display of bravery and skill by the British. Would they have lost without the timely arrival of the Dutch? Maybe, probably even. Does that mean the British didn't hold out for hours, outnumbered - through pure brilliant tactical leadership, and otherworldly bravery? The Prince of Orange was incompetent, comparatively to the other officers surrounding him. Obviously, Sharpe himself is fictional and going to be over-powered as all TV/Movie main characters of any nationality are, but the historical characters present were, on the most part, more competent than the Prince of Orange. Out of all four main commanders present at the battle of Quatre Bras, both French and Seventh Coalition, the vast majority of historians would rightfully put the Prince of Orange lowest of the four. Start adding in some of the brightest lower-level commanders, and the Prince would probably fall lower in the list still. They aren't unfairly painting themselves "as the heroes", they were heroes. The real soldiers earned the right to be portrayed as such.
@@Perseus7567 I would argue that actually, the French effort to hold the approaches to the beach so that the British could make it to the boats was the more heroic story. For example, 40,000 French with 50 tanks holding up 4× their number and nearly 900 tanks at the Siege of Lille. So, yes. I would say that the erasure of heroic efforts by their allies DOES diminish the heroicness of their actions, because Hollywood and the BBC has everyone convinced that the British were *more* heroic than they really were - because they pretend to have done it all alone, spare a little help from God and St. George.
The action at La Haye Sainte is from the wrong direction and no wood like this, I think they have this and the action at Hougomont, but still 100 times better than Ridley's attempt!
I hate Sharpe for one reason only.....but that reason is burned into my soul. 99% of Napoleonic artillery fired round-shot WHICH DOES NOT EXPLODE. You can have a decent percentage of exploding shells in American Civil War films if you must, BUT NOT NAPOLEONIC.
Ridley Scott gets to waste money on Napoleon, meanwhile Sharpe over here was showing Waterloo with 30 people, with the price of a sandwich as the entire budget.
And it is somehow *better*
More authentic battle tactics and so on, plus very good stuntmen.
The key difference is that THIS is solely about Waterloo, whereas Napoleon is about…Napoleon.
@@Shadowkey392more accurately, about him and an ex
Sharpe and Hornblower TV adaptations. BBC managed to portray the entire Napoleonic war, on land and sea, with a handful of actors and a smoke machine.
@@FaceonthewallHornblower had a way larger budget than sharpe and they were both ITV shows, ITV was basically created as a direct rival to BBC to challenge their monopoly.
After seeing the video was only 2 minutes old naturally I gave the order to watch, that’s my style sir
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I believe I was most assiduous in obeying both your general order to watch all Sharpe videos and your particular order to watch this video. I have friends at Horseguards sir.
I swear on oath that no one heard me make any promise with respect to leaving a like for this video to Major Lennox, sir!
*(totally leaves a like for this video)*
@@davidwright7193 He who loses the king’s subscription, loses the king’s friendship.
@@davidwright7193a man who neglects to leave a like loses the algorithm’s friendship, sir.
Bro has been fighting Orcs, sieging Troy, Serving the British and being Lord of Winterfell
Don’t forget about him being Emperor on Elder scroll oblivion
He even took over a russian mafia cartel, stole military satellites and was only stopped in his cuban base by the combines efforts of MI5, CIA and the USMC.
That's soldiering!
@@KalimBanuz The voice actor for the emperor in ES Oblivion was Patrick Stewart
Don’t forget he’s also Zeus in the Percy Jackson Movies
Disobeying the Prince of Orange and at the same time still getting rewarded with the toughest military missions and getting promoted to Commander? Now THAT is soldiering.
Ya in the books he was first made an we ensign
I swear on oath that nobody heard me make any promise in respect to a like to all Sharpe videos,sir.
Sharpe was NOT promoted to the rank of Commander for that is a Naval rank. He was promoted to the rank of Lt Colonel at Waterloo and later to Colonel for his mission in India.
You are correct on the rank but I think they meant the billet of commander
It is similar to calling a navy commander "captain" if he is the commanding officer of a ship.
@@debelmeis2311oh like he is officially in command of people?
You beat me to it....🙂
“That’s soldiering….”
Getting promoted to Commander? Now thats soldiering!
Well he did not.... commander is a navy rank..... He got promoted to Lt. Col when he was attache of prince of Orange.
Newly gazetted commander!
"Getting promoted to Commander? Now thats soldiering!" -- no, seamanship!
@@freemanlee5655
@MrJpc1234
17 hours ago
So your partially right in the Army (British Army at least) there is no "Rank" called "Commander" so they would never promote into it.....however there is various positions that an officer will take the CO (Commanding Officer) and in some circumstances they would be referred to as a "Commander"
The acting of the soldiers getting killed is absolutely......diabolical 😂😅
nineties british television was lit 🔥🔥🔥
10:03 😭
The key word is ACTING it's not real
My favorite is the guy dying when the british commander said to make ready but hadn't actually ordered anyone to fire. One french guy just arbitrarily collapses. XD Probably the only survivor of that fight lol
£10 and a packet of ciggies budget lol
The French soldier bursting through the gates of Hougamont armed with an axe at 11:30 is based on a real event wherein a huge French officer, Lieutenant Legros, managed to break into Hougamont. A quick-thinking British sergeant took some men and instead of attacking the French cut them off by shutting the gates behind them, thus saving Hougamont.
And the only survivor of that attack was a young drummer boy, who also was shown briefly.
bro, french sappers all had axes bro
@@MyFaithShines Clearly not a fan of history lol
@@NixonRules963 google french sappers bro
@@MyFaithShines Read a history book about Waterloo lmao
Bring 'em all back for one more round. Sharpe in Crimea. Have Major Hogan be 99, Sharpe at 70, I don't even care, I'd watch it.
I thought of something similar but its hard to top Waterloo. I was thinking however doing a movie with an older Sean Bean and preventing an assassination of Princess Victoria. Call it sharpe's knighthood.
Major general sharpe
The real Prince of Orange, spent all day moving around on the battlefield, then got shot because he was such an obvious target and therefore an idiot. Meanwhile Wellington and his staff, stayed in carefully positioned places. That's why he was called Silly Billy.
Sharpe dressed as a French country gentleman. 😁
What a dope!
He was an idiot.
@SpyderSuasponte In those days many royals married their cousins.
Again, it amazes me what was accomplished on a shoestring budget.
It wasn’t a shoestring by this point.
@@Shadowkey392it was, the funding was tightened further and further as the years went on.
Never has white smoke been so deadly
That corn starch will get ya
I forgot how much I loved this whole damn series
Hornblower too !
I see UA-cam as circled back around recommending Sharpe. That’s UA-cam’s style, sir.
I feel like "I do wish you the joy of the day" should become a meme
Now that's Soldiering!. Thank you and damn you now I have to go watch Sharpe again...
Whilst serving in Afghan. We used to do 3pm sharpe. Brew n sharpe. Now that’s soldiering
You guys need to release full episodes!
Sharpe: "Will you stay here and fight with us?"
Officer in the Family: "Sharpe, thats immensely kind of you..."
Now that's Britishing
The thing is the gentlemen were really like that. Bad form, don't you know to get emotional or excited. Manners and understatement were natural to them.
making a meme comment on a just-uploaded sharpe video?...now, _that's_ youtubing!
When I saw a Sharpe video, I liked it. That’s my style sir!
This is why the Duke of Wellington gave cause for Sandhurst to be created to train ‘professional officers’ to replace those ‘gentlemen officers’. Thank God.
That is also why the United States created the Service Academies after the War of Independence beginning with Military Academy and the Naval Academy, then the Coast Guard Academy at Kings Point, the Merchant Marine Academy and finally the Air Force Academy in 1955. During the Civil War, various U S Army State Militia Regiments created officer's training schools and the regular U S Army and U S Navy offered direct commissions to qualified army, navy and marine noncommissioned officers. Finally, in 1916 the first Army ROTC unit was established at Norwich University which led to the establishment of Army and Naval ROTC units at many universities and colleges, the creation of Army, Navy and Coast Guard Officer's Candidate Schools, Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Course(PLC) and state Merchant Marine Academies that granted Naval Reserve Commissions as well as Merchant Marine Officer's Licenses to graduates. An officer is supposed to be a "gentleman" or "gentlewoman" as well as a professional officer....some are and some are not! I was!
@ yes but American was not plagued with idiots who thought because they were born into a fancy family they were entitled to command men in battle. You did have some idiots who didn’t know how to run a war but every country has those and a good war weeds them out pretty quick, look at your own civil war, three years the rebels ran rings around the union.
Only its not how the Prince really was, many un-historical liberties where taken.
The Dutch fought bravely and even covered Wellington's "tactical" retreat at Quatre Bras.
@ oh the Dutch did fight bravely just lead stupidly
@@geoffreyrichardson8738 Parliament also banned the buying of commissions after the disasters during the Crimean War, like the Charge Of The Light Brigade.
Ah yes, the immortal currently going by the name Sean Bean. A man with a good heart and chose to end many of his lives among mortals in war.
And holy crap! Is that Capt Arthur Hastings from Hercule Poirot at 16:38!?
First time I watched this was in like 1997-1999, was one of the few shows I watched with my dad ! Good times ..
unlike other sharpe movies his indian campaign was really brutal and it wasnt like goofy backpack kills.
I just realized that the Prince Regent is Paul Bettany.
Yup! My favourite casting in Sharpe is Daniel Craig as Lt Berry - who Sharpe kills. So in Sharpe a bond villain kills James Bond
@alanmichael5619 Don't forget about James Purefoy. He was also early in on the season as the traitor who redeemed himself with valor.
@@nocturnalrecluse1216 Erm, valour. He was British, remember? :-)
@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 What?
@gwtpictgwtpict4214 I'm American, not British. I speak GA, not RP. So it's "VALOR" where I come from.
23:21 "I believe I am killed, ma'am..."
And far too young to be dying for anything, including honor. But at least he saved those women from an even worse fate. 😔
You're never to young to give your life for honour
@@kapitan19969838 Yep, that;s the BS governments sell you to get you to die for them
Getting promoted to Commander, now that’s…sailoring
The author went back and wrote several books around Pte. Sharp... grabbing his first fortune in India, then leading a covert action through the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark. One can only wish these were filmed as the very young Sharp saves various political snobs and engages beautiful women... sigh.
That's seamanship, Mister Pullings...that's seamanship
''Break square... form line... attack... '' When there's French cavalry behind that rise? Now that's NOT soldiering!!!
Here we go again - solid shot from cannon exploding like a shell! Film makers never do get it right!
Too expensive and dangerous to use the real thing. The film production would be breaking health and safety laws.
its just stupid.+
Well to be fair... exploding shells *were* used at waterloo.
Strange, I didn't even remember Boromir being at the siege of Helm's deep...
Ive been a hornblower fan for years now and ive always heard of Sharpe but never really had a chance to get into it... this here is a quality youtube recommendation
I piddled in 8 hours late to comment on this video. That's my style, sir!
I really like the fact that the engineer that breached the gate wasn't, muck like his real counterparts, didn't catch a round to the face immediately like everyone else, but had the honor of having enough "Captain" time to lead his charge in before being cut down. That was a really dramatic scene for that and it makes it better.
Becoming a Naval Officer without a minute on sea, now thats soldiering!
First minute above offers a visually vivid demonstration of why regiments massed squares made such a tempting and easy target for massed artillery to concentrate on.
Big fan of Sharpe's book series.
Give em' steel lads!!!!
Moral of the story, people without hats are more important that those with
Having been a fan of Mr Sharp for many years I must admit i was slightly surprised to see he had changed service and joined the navy since the last time i saw him. I am well aware of the rank of commander as that as my grandfathers final rank in the Royal Navy during WWII.
Despite the total misrepresentation of the Prince of Orange, who according to those who fought with him as a good and brave commander, Sharp remains one of, if not the best depiction of the Napoleonic wars on film and TV.
I love how Sharpe hates the Royals! "Royals! We're surrounded by Royals!"
Is Sharpe just like Horatio hornblower where he gets promoted every few episodes after winning a battle?
Its not just about winning battles but yeah. I saw him like the army version. Both had clever tactics, quick wits, and followed their duty to the letter.
Love the fact Sharpe uses a pencil from Ikea
Just realized that's Paul Bettany as Prince William! Didn't realize he was in another great Napoleonic flick besides Master and Commander. After all, surprise in on his side ;)
"I do wish you the joy of the day." - Witherspoon, right as the Battle of Waterloo kicks into full gear
Richard Sharpe, a man so tough he survived being played by Sean Bean. 😉
Richard Sharpe- the only character strong enough to survive being played by Sean Bean
Oh that Simmerson is at it again
Sharpe, silly billies staff...😂😂😂
Naturally on seeing french cavalry, i ordered the battalion into line formation! Thats my style sir!
Love SHARPE
That French axe man was a total boss
Not in that apron he’s not
He was a combat engineer called a pioneer. The apron was to carry tools and for protection from fire and digging. They where hard as nails
Oh God!
Oh God?
Oh God.
I was a big fan of the books I had to buy at Barnes And Noble back in the 1990’s in the US and love watching what’s available on youtube. Did they make a series About Sharpe at Trafalgar one of the books I remember reading.
Commander? don't you mean Colonel
those suicidal strategies are awes - dressed in red-white-blue-black - nice living running targets - great ending.. splinter solutions
Back in the days where having a professional looking army meant that they looked good for parades. It really only changed with WW1 with all the mud.
È stata fatta una traduzione della serie Sharpe in italiano? Dove si potrebbe vedere? Cmq Sean Bean fantastico!
Now that's uploading.
he got it through good soldiering
There truly is no greater enemy than incompetent allies
Thay frebch sapper though. Absolute unit
Is this from sharpes waterloo?
Battle strategy has progressed a little since then. How could commanders have thought that that was the right way ?
Still cant believe that people just stood there while people killed them. Because of "respectiveness" lol. Insane
Line battles were a product of their time. Muskets were cheaper to produce than rifles and easier to train soldiers to use. You were more likely to hit more targets with volley fire due to a musket's inaccuracy, so it became a mission of training soldiers to reload quickly and stand their ground when under fire.
21:23 this might be one of the hardest lines in cinema dragovich basically drago from rocky 💀
By Wellington’s welly boots…is…that a young Paul Bettany I spy.
Young Hakeswill at 7:15?
@@seamusmckim4833 Son of Obadiah, Barabbas.
Still more historically accurate that Ridley Scott's version
I would have thought having a Marvel superhero as your leader would have gone better for the Brits
I wish they would make a modern version of sharp
Is it just me or do you hear "Sean Bean" at 10:07 ?
Simmerson needed a quick stab or two. Waaaaaay earlier in the book series.
Didn't know Vision was at Waterloo!
The French cavalry are charging, all 12 of them
@2:48 I bid you stand men of the east ;)
The actor who played Dragomirov is the same one who played Almaric in Kingdom Of Heaven.
almost didnt rec sean bean
Ok, (13:08) Sharpe did that French Sapper dirty. I'm just saying. CHIMO!
I am too tired to post about another Sharpe clip, and yet my hatred for the Prince of Orange has compelled me to...now _that's_ soldiering.
Ned Stark doin alright in this war.
0:04 - Tom Cruise cameo
Wellington not telling Sharpe about Harper being the missing man was somewhat ridiculous. If he wanted the "best man for the job" that's not something he would've withheld. It's not even honorable.
"Then you should know that God does not work upon a Sunday."
That line is fucking cold and I LOVE IT
The prince of orange did this three times that day. Same mistake
This compilation is highly inaccurate! Sean Bean doesn't die anywhere!
Vive l'EMPEREUR !
Ah, here come the frogs. 😂
Wait, Sean Bean didn't die in this one?
В дестве с удовольствием смотрел этот сериал.
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13:16 It sucks to be a sappeur..
Vive la France!
Stand you Boogers! Stand!
I love the serie. But its a shame that they make the Prince of Orange look so bad and incompetent. In truth he was a fine commander and held the advance of at Quatre-Bras. Napoleon spoke highly of the Dutch bravery and the Prince. But the British want to be the heroes and taking al the credits. But in fact ,there where more foreign troops than English at the battle of Waterloo
There was also more French troops at Dunkirk than British, doesn't make it any less of a heroic British story, does it?
There was more British and Canadian troops on D-Day, does that take away the heroism of the US servicemen on Omaha, Utah and Point du Hoc? That's before we even mention they got there on mostly British ships, crewed by British men. So, under your logic, was the successful capture of Omaha beach purely thanks to the British?
Waterloo was a stunning display of bravery and skill by the British. Would they have lost without the timely arrival of the Dutch? Maybe, probably even. Does that mean the British didn't hold out for hours, outnumbered - through pure brilliant tactical leadership, and otherworldly bravery?
The Prince of Orange was incompetent, comparatively to the other officers surrounding him. Obviously, Sharpe himself is fictional and going to be over-powered as all TV/Movie main characters of any nationality are, but the historical characters present were, on the most part, more competent than the Prince of Orange. Out of all four main commanders present at the battle of Quatre Bras, both French and Seventh Coalition, the vast majority of historians would rightfully put the Prince of Orange lowest of the four. Start adding in some of the brightest lower-level commanders, and the Prince would probably fall lower in the list still.
They aren't unfairly painting themselves "as the heroes", they were heroes. The real soldiers earned the right to be portrayed as such.
@@Perseus7567 I would argue that actually, the French effort to hold the approaches to the beach so that the British could make it to the boats was the more heroic story. For example, 40,000 French with 50 tanks holding up 4× their number and nearly 900 tanks at the Siege of Lille.
So, yes. I would say that the erasure of heroic efforts by their allies DOES diminish the heroicness of their actions, because Hollywood and the BBC has everyone convinced that the British were *more* heroic than they really were - because they pretend to have done it all alone, spare a little help from God and St. George.
And for fairness, having expanded your comment - the US pulls the same stunt, re. D-Day
Media alone is a horrible way to teach a war.
@@Perseus7567untimely arrival of the Dutch? You mean the Prussians, right?
Now, say it with me lads...
God save Ireland!
The action at La Haye Sainte is from the wrong direction and no wood like this, I think they have this and the action at Hougomont, but still 100 times better than Ridley's attempt!
I hate Sharpe for one reason only.....but that reason is burned into my soul. 99% of Napoleonic artillery fired round-shot WHICH DOES NOT EXPLODE. You can have a decent percentage of exploding shells in American Civil War films if you must, BUT NOT NAPOLEONIC.
How would you film non exploding shells and make it look deadly?
Weren't British infantry trained to spear enemy cavalry?
Ole Sharpe played on Ronin as a wannabe. The bloke on the left played on Knights Tale as a guy with a gambling problem.
Boromir Sharpe 😊
After all these years still Sharpe