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  • Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
  • Sharpe witnesses an ambush & has to make a tough decision.
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    In the Peninsular War, a British sergeant is field promoted to a lieutenant in charge of a disrespectful rifle company.

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  • @SharpeOfficial
    @SharpeOfficial  3 роки тому +12

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  • @notmenotme614
    @notmenotme614 4 роки тому +488

    I love how someone plays the guitar every time she speaks Spanish.

    • @MongooseTacticool
      @MongooseTacticool 4 роки тому +18

      The guitar work in general is excellent though :)

    • @cloroxusthestainlessone4324
      @cloroxusthestainlessone4324 3 роки тому +16

      @@simonlaw9234 I'm now blasting Rule Britannia at any one I talk to. Making society better one choice at a time

    • @Bryt25
      @Bryt25 3 роки тому +6

      @@simonlaw9234 The Goon Show would play bagpipes whenever Scotland yard was depicted...

    • @DaveDexterMusic
      @DaveDexterMusic 2 роки тому

      I mean it happens once

    • @almirante_kiko
      @almirante_kiko 2 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @GillsFan91
    @GillsFan91 4 роки тому +565

    Rising from a Colonel of a Rifle Battalion to being the Prince Regent, now that's soldiering.

  • @TheCormTube
    @TheCormTube 4 роки тому +231

    Sharpe - Throws rock, throws knife, suffocates Frenchman
    Theresa - I've found my man

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Рік тому +15

      Perhaps she was also impressed by his pragmatism in not fighting the main body earlier - to a guerrilla fighter it would definitely be the correct decision.

  • @reenactingaddict1372
    @reenactingaddict1372 4 роки тому +361

    Now I feel bad for what I do to the retreating enemy in Napoleon Total War.

    • @M0rmagil
      @M0rmagil 3 роки тому +30

      Light Cav, the proper tool to take advantage of a route. 😁

    • @ChaseMcCain81
      @ChaseMcCain81 3 роки тому +2

      Lol

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 роки тому +16

      @@M0rmagil The only true use for cavalry in Napoleon Total War.

    • @JevansUK
      @JevansUK 3 роки тому +2

      Why have to defeat them twice?

    • @Dylan_Goodboy
      @Dylan_Goodboy 3 роки тому +5

      @@JonatasAdoM not true they are great for ambushes like in the video lmao

  • @goodbanter4427
    @goodbanter4427 5 років тому +405

    Riflemen camping in an open field without infantry support? Basically asking to get charged by cavalry

    • @michaelswann9227
      @michaelswann9227 4 роки тому +36

      @Marshall Carwood maybe they lacked the numbers to form a viable square. Also they were taken by surprise which does not allow time to form square.

    • @resopo1948
      @resopo1948 4 роки тому +23

      @@michaelswann9227 Most of them did not even have their rifles on them when they were ambushed.

    • @marcusguanio1290
      @marcusguanio1290 4 роки тому +21

      @Marshall Carwood No rifles had bayonet sockets, So Forming Square is useless without bayonets,

    • @paddy1389
      @paddy1389 4 роки тому +23

      Baker rifles were issued with 24 inch sword bayonets, Brown Bess muskets were issued regular socket bayonets

    • @marcusguanio1290
      @marcusguanio1290 4 роки тому +1

      @@paddy1389 but still, baker Rifles cannot shoot when it is equipped with the sword

  • @Tap-a-roo
    @Tap-a-roo 2 роки тому +71

    Sharpe's first real order as a Lieutenant was to tell his men to stand down, so they didn't die needlessly in a heroic, but hopeless action.

  • @spamhonx56
    @spamhonx56 Рік тому +68

    I can't believe it took me this long to work out why, of all the rifles, perkins wasn't a chosen man- this is why. The chosen men were sharpe's command, and perkins was only there because they rescued him.

    • @serene_actual
      @serene_actual Рік тому +21

      What? Perkins became chosen man after he shot a French officer who was in a fair duel with Sharpe, the Frenchie went dirty and dishonest and Perkins shot him. Then Sharpe gave him the special ribbon thingy and he became chosen man.

    • @bobpage6597
      @bobpage6597 3 місяці тому +1

      @@serene_actual And then Hogan goes up to Perkina and says quietly 'Take my advice Perkins; give it back!" - which I think he does so, thus declining the position of Chosen Man.

  • @TheCormTube
    @TheCormTube 4 роки тому +107

    The look between Harper and Sharpe when he saves Perkins and gives the boy something to focus on, subtle acting nuance.

  • @CarzorStelatis
    @CarzorStelatis 4 роки тому +106

    3:00 Suffering a head wound from a rock that hits your forage cap about 4 inches above the top of your head? Now that's soldiering.

  • @tomservo5347
    @tomservo5347 2 роки тому +40

    I can't find the scene but I remember Hagman falling down in the mud and Sharpe still being new is dismissing him as too old-to which Hagman states he kept his rifle out of the mud. Sharpe helps pull him up and they start chatting about old wounds that bother them. Great scene showing how the Chosen Men and Sharpe started developing into an inseparable team.

    • @mreagle4798
      @mreagle4798 Рік тому +1

      It is this episode but abit later on

  • @HenriHerbert88
    @HenriHerbert88 3 роки тому +71

    I think this is the best episode of the series.

    • @NapoleonAquila
      @NapoleonAquila 3 роки тому +3

      I think you Brits have bad taste, this serie smell the cheap acting etc....
      And crappy french bashing
      Anyway similar to the soviet movie "Battle of Berlin"
      Seriously even the "frenches" in the serie don't look french at all. Did you engage Syrian migrants guys?

    • @NapoleonAquila
      @NapoleonAquila 3 роки тому

      @@HenriHerbert88 bonjour le mauvais goût, à moins ce soit juste pour mater la série z de Boromir.
      Eh ben pour un "Français" je t'ai confondu pour un anglois originaire de Normandie comme à l'époque d'Henry V, enfin bref un collabo car il y a français et "français" aujourd'hui.

    • @rc59191
      @rc59191 3 роки тому +7

      @@NapoleonAquila of course the frog would hate a good quality show about them getting knocked out of Spain. This is one of the greatest shows and book series of all time the love it continues to get today is proof of that.

    • @horatio655
      @horatio655 2 роки тому +3

      @@NapoleonAquila Making a frog seethe, now that’s soldiering.

  • @robplazzman6049
    @robplazzman6049 5 років тому +100

    After Waterloo the British were so impressed by the Polish lancers they formed their own regiment. And as part of the uniform the British troopers wore the square topped ‘Chapka’. Watch “ The charge of the light brigade”. Featuring a fatal charge by 600 light cavalry again Russian guns. Made in the mid 60s but still a great film.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Рік тому +3

      Lancers had a better chance at breaking infantry squares than other types of cavalry had, as the lance could outreach fixed bayonets on muskets. Even so, they were unable to break squares at Waterloo - at least one French (or Polish?) lancer hurled his lance, transfixing one of the British soldiers in a square - the lancer's fate is not recorded.
      The advantages of lancers were clear even before Waterloo. In one French engagement with Austrians in rainy weather, it was at first stalemate because the Austrian infantry square could not fire as the rain prevented the powder from igniting, but French cavalry were deterred by their bayonets. Then some lancers attacked the Austrians and quickly broke up the square.

    • @robplazzman6049
      @robplazzman6049 Рік тому +4

      @@stevekaczynski3793 I believe Polish lancers also broke a British infantry square in the Peninsular war in Spain, although I forget the details. Out of interest, my father was in the 3rd Carpathian lancers (attached to the British army) in WW2. Although they stuck him in a Sherman !

    • @mjc8281
      @mjc8281 9 місяців тому +1

      The history of the British lancers are pretty interesting, as the British army had had lancer regiments throughout the early-mid 1700s but by the late 1700s they had all been converted into light dragoons....It wasn't until after Waterloo that they reintroduced them and as you point out like the Hussar regiments they took on a very distinctive look which was copied from other nations.

    • @sirrathersplendid4825
      @sirrathersplendid4825 6 місяців тому

      @@robplazzman6049- Not sure they broke a square, but at the battle of Albuera in 1811, the Vistula lancers caught a British brigade from the flank unawares and destroyed three of the four regiments.

  • @charlieross-BRM
    @charlieross-BRM 5 років тому +60

    When the Rifles learned Sharpe is a leader and a killer. That's the look Harper got from the other soldier as the clip wrapped up. I can't remember all their names - it's been ages since I last binged through the whole series.

    • @jediknight129
      @jediknight129 2 роки тому +5

      that and the understanding that he gave the injured an excuse that saves fave.

  • @eldorados_lost_searcher
    @eldorados_lost_searcher 4 роки тому +50

    Chosen Man Perkins. Trying to save others right from the start.
    The best die young, it seems.

  • @VersusARCH
    @VersusARCH 5 років тому +73

    3:16 - the guy must have had a bad case of cold. Otherwise he would have breathed throug his nose...

    • @kyle18934
      @kyle18934 4 роки тому +1

      I think sharpe was trying to break his neck not smother him

    • @kyle18934
      @kyle18934 4 роки тому +5

      Never mind lol his nose is only for smells not for breathing

    • @marcusguanio1290
      @marcusguanio1290 4 роки тому +1

      Try breaking his Jaw?

    • @MichaelLee-tt7gm
      @MichaelLee-tt7gm 4 роки тому

      His nostrils are full of blood after being knocked off his horse by the rock.

    • @MateusVIII
      @MateusVIII 4 роки тому +7

      French noses are used only for sound effects in coversations and smelling garlic. You can't breathe through them.

  • @nickmcmahon623
    @nickmcmahon623 5 років тому +26

    Loved Sharpe but the budget was so shit, battle of Waterloo fought by two armies of fifty men.
    Sean Bean nails it though. Bastard!

    • @MichaelGThomas
      @MichaelGThomas Рік тому +1

      It was quite a high budget series for the 90s. Especially the final episodes.

  • @AegeanGreywolf
    @AegeanGreywolf 3 роки тому +27

    When you play as British riflemen and you are too far from friendly units in MB Warband/ Napoleonic Wars

    • @deusvult6920
      @deusvult6920 Рік тому

      Get bannerlord bro

    • @AegeanGreywolf
      @AegeanGreywolf Рік тому

      @@deusvult6920 Bro... I can't betray running animation in the Warband, sorry

  • @Rorynes
    @Rorynes 5 років тому +22

    The first TV series/movie that Sean Bean has survived till the end.

    • @AndrewAMartin
      @AndrewAMartin 4 роки тому +1

      Karma has been balancing things out since then...

  • @isq2242
    @isq2242 5 років тому +154

    Sean Bean was saying "oh my god" because the people who were skirmishers don't know how to fight against Calvary

    • @libertinarey
      @libertinarey 5 років тому +81

      I think they did but they were caught in the open and didn't have time to form up (the guy who said "rifles to me" presumably tried to get them to form up but it was far too late) and it seemed half of them at least were trying to disperse and seek cover. Either way they were fucked, skirmish infantry caught out by cavalry in the open like that at such close range was disastrous, the one time i know it happened during the rl napaleonic wars, which the 95th (the green jackets here) witnessed was that of a fellow light infantry regiment suffering it. They got wiped out completely, an experience that stayed with the 95th soldiers so much that years later at waterloo, when the 95th were on the receiving end of a cavalry charge, many veteran 95th soldiers turned and fled expecting it to be a similar massacre. Fortunately for those that stayed though they bunched up in time into a square and were able to repel the french cavalry with minimal casualties somehow.

    • @TinyTalesBookClub
      @TinyTalesBookClub 5 років тому +16

      Huh, I thought it was because he realized he was in the wrong place and didn't die when he was supposed to... instead of reshooting the scene they just rolled with it.

    • @just4laughs76
      @just4laughs76 5 років тому +2

      @@isq2242 *sword

    • @JoeBlac
      @JoeBlac 5 років тому +2

      @@TinyTalesBookClub Death never made that mistake again.

    • @ethanniblock5341
      @ethanniblock5341 5 років тому +1

      @@just4laughs76 No, it's a bayonet and I'm pretty sure they can't be attached to rifles, only muskets.

  • @franciscoscaramanga9396
    @franciscoscaramanga9396 3 роки тому +23

    Suffocating someone without covering their nose?
    Now that's soldiering.

  • @333Revolver333
    @333Revolver333 Рік тому +7

    0:53 When your Guns of Infinity character fails the charisma and soldiering checks...

  • @AggroInChina
    @AggroInChina 3 роки тому +12

    Love the fact Sharpe gets the standard back

  • @patrickkelly7085
    @patrickkelly7085 5 років тому +194

    The bald guy who died with the spear in his hand wrote "Downton Abbey"

    • @thejudge-kv2jk
      @thejudge-kv2jk 5 років тому +46

      Really? Shame this wasn't real then.

    • @drunkenbarbarian8211
      @drunkenbarbarian8211 5 років тому +4

      @@thejudge-kv2jk lol

    • @Gladiator0719
      @Gladiator0719 5 років тому +17

      Guidon, not spear... Julian Fellowes is his name.

    • @AJMoore101
      @AJMoore101 5 років тому +1

      @@thejudge-kv2jk 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👏👏👏

    • @stuartsamuel1879
      @stuartsamuel1879 5 років тому +4

      ​@@Gladiator0719 Closer to the truth, but really, 'Colours'. They're not American.

  • @christmar67
    @christmar67 5 років тому +350

    Polish cavalry , Poland was allied with Napoléon

    • @hosank
      @hosank 5 років тому +40

      Uhlans

    • @veronicadredd22
      @veronicadredd22 5 років тому +18

      you are not far off , the show was filmed in The Ukraine

    • @g00gleminus96
      @g00gleminus96 5 років тому +42

      Technically they were Uhlans of the Army of the Duchy Of Warsaw but yeah, Polish.

    • @krzysztoflanger6015
      @krzysztoflanger6015 5 років тому +5

      Niestety, Polacy byli dla Napoleona tylko mięsem armatnim, który wykorzystał ich naiwność

    • @gervaisdebazoches1889
      @gervaisdebazoches1889 5 років тому +7

      Oui. Mon capitaine.

  • @Nikkiexx1
    @Nikkiexx1 2 роки тому +6

    1:28 is a perfect example of a character realising "Oope! I'm dead now!"

  • @juancarlosdegoya2757
    @juancarlosdegoya2757 4 роки тому +59

    1:41 one of the few times you will hear an actual spanish accent in this series

    • @michaelbarker3078
      @michaelbarker3078 4 роки тому

      It hurts that your actually right

    • @Mannydamon
      @Mannydamon 3 роки тому +1

      Mexicans speak better Spanish

    • @OberonXXXXXX
      @OberonXXXXXX 3 роки тому +1

      @@Mannydamon spanish always speaks english with dogs

  • @whitewolf7662
    @whitewolf7662 3 роки тому +3

    Dies as a major and comes back as the prince of walle's AMAZING

  • @nqh4393
    @nqh4393 4 роки тому +9

    How Sean Bean survived this is beyond me...

  • @leoi6
    @leoi6 5 років тому +46

    1:32 legit sounds like Gordon Ramsay

  • @norfangl3480
    @norfangl3480 2 роки тому +9

    Letting your entire unit get wiped out but saving your flag? Now that's soldiering

  • @IvanKala
    @IvanKala 5 років тому +31

    Sean Bean lives..oh that's something new

  • @TransoceanicOutreach
    @TransoceanicOutreach 5 років тому +274

    3:15 if only these foreigners knew how to breathe through their nose....

    • @druisteen
      @druisteen 5 років тому +1

      This is a movie ( a Tv series )

    • @omo9131
      @omo9131 5 років тому +15

      Yeah cause Breathing though nose while being strangle will keep you alive😂

    • @SimplyVanis
      @SimplyVanis 5 років тому +22

      @Baron Von Grijffenbourg Don't you see he had cold? You clearly cant breathe if your nose is blocked...

    • @terrortorn
      @terrortorn 5 років тому +30

      They are French. They drive on the wrong side of the road and only use their noses for smelling wine and sniffing bums.

    • @marebalvan7963
      @marebalvan7963 5 років тому +1

      Maybe his nose was stuffy

  • @richpryor9650
    @richpryor9650 Рік тому +2

    Imagine getting ambushed by a bunch of French dudes wearing Chef Hats.

  • @fleshwoundp1744
    @fleshwoundp1744 4 роки тому +3

    Im surprised British riflemen in open field with no support not winning against lancers?!?!? This is Sharpe right? They usually make the Brits super OP in this show. =P

    • @niwka
      @niwka 3 роки тому +2

      They make Sharpe OP, but the brits in general about as competent as a wet glove.

  • @chuck430
    @chuck430 5 років тому +10

    for the longest time i thought the guy saying "young Perkins, sir" 2:40 was Jimmy McNulty in The Wire.

  • @SwordDigio
    @SwordDigio 2 роки тому +3

    Sharpe and his men are probably round delayers in blood and iron.

    • @SwordDigio
      @SwordDigio 2 роки тому

      WAIT I ACCIDENTALLY SAID SHARPE THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT!!!

    • @Souflouz
      @Souflouz Рік тому

      Lmao yes

  • @billybeads3328
    @billybeads3328 2 роки тому +4

    It must have taken a lot of soul searching by Sharpe and his men not to open fire to try and save their comrades but then they would probably all have been killed

    • @42lookc
      @42lookc Рік тому

      That's what it seemed. Near certain death and still lose? No, live and fight another day.

  • @Mackinstyle
    @Mackinstyle 6 місяців тому +1

    I have this sense that in real cavalry battles, horses got intentionally stabbed a whole lot more than they can/will show on TV.

  • @Skenderbeuismyhero
    @Skenderbeuismyhero 2 роки тому +3

    This one didn't make sense. They were up on ground completely inaccessible to the french cavalry and could have been firing multiple volleys while they enemy would have had to dismount and climbed the rocks on foot under fire and without any way to answer their fire.

  • @ilyaslatypov9848
    @ilyaslatypov9848 Місяць тому

    From this movie I learnd that Frenches always fight open, and weren't hide in bushes concealing for a rat ambush :)

  • @umeda777
    @umeda777 4 роки тому +6

    French Calvary and Polish Hussar were excellent~♡

  • @angelfan16
    @angelfan16 3 роки тому +2

    Dude, did ya'll see Sharpe just fucking throw a knife from long range into a dude's neck? That was impressive.

  • @katana258
    @katana258 5 років тому +30

    so we have rifles / muskets and do not use them just run around in circles

    • @adrianperalta2425
      @adrianperalta2425 5 років тому +4

      They deserve to die. No guard on duty, Rifles not ready. Poor leadership.

  • @darianvaldez4044
    @darianvaldez4044 3 роки тому +4

    I could've wished to seen this whole company of rifles to be shown in the series.

  • @Brvnkaerv
    @Brvnkaerv Рік тому +2

    'This one's for your mother!"

  • @Serge-x3q
    @Serge-x3q 10 днів тому

    Je comprends Mieux Rambo....On lui a dit NO..il n'a pas écouté....un caillou dans sa tronche...et puis voilà comment parfois la guerre se déroule.....ce n'est pas toujours du cinéma...ou le meilleur gagne....déjà il n'y a pas de pub...merci...pour cette séquence

  • @chrismichael6048
    @chrismichael6048 22 дні тому

    This scene really shows that cavalry is a force to be reckoned with for centuries of warfare. Only after the widepread introduction and use of machine gun in early 20th century that made the cavalry warfare finally became obsolete, deadly and futile.

  • @nwerner3654
    @nwerner3654 4 роки тому +3

    And this, boys and girls, is why they stood in lines

    • @jeddkeech259
      @jeddkeech259 3 роки тому

      Lmaoooooo 😂

    • @masterexploder9668
      @masterexploder9668 3 роки тому

      Reloading took ages, standing in formation (square was the best, due to horses fear of clumped masses of people) and bayonets as semi-spears was absolutely vital to avoid fate like this, but riflemen actually had sabres, not rifles with bayonets and most importantly they were absolutely caught out camping. Absolutely hopeless to defend.

  • @septegram
    @septegram 4 роки тому +7

    I'm always surprised Sharpe didn't have his chosen men fire. With their 3 rounds per minute rate of fire, and being in a place inaccessible to cavalry, they might have turned the rout into a successful defense.
    Plot requirement, I guess.

    • @JevansUK
      @JevansUK 3 роки тому +10

      It's all over in about 80 seconds, Sharpe know's everyone else is dead and risking his men's lives isn't worth the small amount of casualties they could inflict.

    • @Tiwaz81
      @Tiwaz81 3 роки тому +3

      3 rounds per minute is what he expects from his musket carrying troops. His redcoats. Hard to do with a rifle. It’s why Napoleon refused to issue rifles. Too slow to load despite EVERY other army having some form of rifleman.

    • @worlore1651
      @worlore1651 2 роки тому +2

      He taught them how to fire 4 rounds a minute against cavalry

    • @illtemperedcur9798
      @illtemperedcur9798 2 роки тому +1

      It's because of his orders from Wellington, that one of the three officers MUST make contact with Rothschild. The other two officers are being slaughtered in the valley below, and regardless of whether the Chosen Men enter the battle by shooting the Frog leaders, the British officers are almost certain to be killed before it's over. Even if they defeat the Frogs. A hard decision by Sharpe, but the correct one, given his orders.

    • @MichaelGThomas
      @MichaelGThomas Рік тому

      ​@@worlore1651 When using muskets, not rifles.

  • @gengis737
    @gengis737 4 роки тому +1

    An English movie where Sharpe does not win ? Must be a cut.Also, Sharpe and his squad are out of reach of cavalry on steep rocks, they are Rifles, the only ones able to shoot with accuracy at 400m, and they do not provide fire support to their unit ? French cavalry does not seem so numerous.

  • @Egooist.
    @Egooist. 5 місяців тому

    The problem here is that - *_by the look of it_* - the french "ambush" consists of just about two dozen *horsemen* & Sharpe & his five *riflemen* are positioned at a rather safe spot. They could - *_so it seems_* - make a difference with little risk to themselves.

  • @Guiscardr
    @Guiscardr 3 роки тому +1

    Major Dunnett poised to stab a downed French cavalryman with the company pennant before being killed?
    That’s soldiering.

  • @alanwong8587
    @alanwong8587 4 роки тому +3

    how does a rifle regiment not fire a single shot in that engagement at all !?!?!?! they literally turned to hand to hand combat immediately instead of fixing bayonets or firing considering most of them are suppose to be decent shots so why use the rifles as clubs. like sharpes men were about to fire so that tells me there whole regiment had loaded rifles or could have at least fixed a couple bayonets instead of turning to swords

  • @wojciechkazana6981
    @wojciechkazana6981 3 роки тому +2

    French cavalery dressed with Vistula Lancers uniforms and hats but... without lances :)
    Movie realities

  • @morikanteyekeyeke6147
    @morikanteyekeyeke6147 5 років тому +10

    Never say die young Perkins, he must have watched the Goonies.

  • @chat17
    @chat17 4 роки тому +3

    that not french, but polish cavalry,, they were fighting with french, and were part of grande armee

  • @jacekwidor3306
    @jacekwidor3306 5 років тому +16

    Lanciers of Vistula Legion? Oh, my God! Very, wery poor and badly copies of his uniforms.

    • @heartachez148
      @heartachez148 5 років тому

      Jacek Widor wozas

    • @heartachez148
      @heartachez148 5 років тому +1

      Jacek Widor same profile pick

    • @jankowalski-lg6bs
      @jankowalski-lg6bs 5 років тому +1

      the reality was different:
      ua-cam.com/video/N0pGkXgPqTs/v-deo.html
      There were only 215 Polish lancers at Waterloo, and 5 were killed. Surprisingly low losses resulted from the iron discipline of Poles and excellent training

    • @BigDuke6ixx
      @BigDuke6ixx 5 років тому

      The last battle won by a French army on its own.

    • @crispinjulius5032
      @crispinjulius5032 3 роки тому +2

      Jeez, it’s almost like they had a budget and could only do what they could with what they were working with.

  • @JAccuse-v3r
    @JAccuse-v3r 5 років тому +16

    Ned stark and stark soldiers armed with rifle

  • @danielworthington2949
    @danielworthington2949 Рік тому +1

    French dude couldn’t breathe through his nose 😂

  • @martingale7748
    @martingale7748 5 років тому +14

    Je ne suis venu que pour lire les commentaires. Pas déçu.

    • @bo2web
      @bo2web 5 років тому +2

      A la différence des anglais, les français ont abandonné toute idée d'Empire !

    • @reyphenixsecondaire404
      @reyphenixsecondaire404 5 років тому +1

      @@bo2web à la différence que même la France a une bonne armé sans empire

    • @gervaisdebazoches1889
      @gervaisdebazoches1889 5 років тому

      Je suis tombé par hasard sur la vidéo. 👍
      Ça fait, depuis la série Jean-Roch Coignet, qu'il n'y a plus rien!
      Alors qu'il y a moyen avec toute l'Histoire, batailles, expéditions, aventures,...traités dans des livres par des historiens, des milliers de scénarios sont possibles à réaliser!
      Pas facile de trouver des producteurs et ne parlons pas du financement du cinéma, pour des films/séries de "merdes", par notre chère ripoublique, qui veut effacer l'Histoire!
      Il faudrait que tous marchent au canon, pour sauver la France!
      Ce que Grouchy n'a pas fait.

    • @gervaisdebazoches1889
      @gervaisdebazoches1889 5 років тому

      Et n'oublions pas, l'armée de Wellington au Portugal, en Espagne ou å Waterloo, financée par les Rothschilds!

    • @paulhomsy2751
      @paulhomsy2751 5 років тому +3

      @@bo2web C'est l'empire qui les a motives mais dont le revers de la medaille a ete leur talon d'Achille. Cet attachement aveugle a leur pays les a empeches d'apprecier leurs colonies. Ils ont gagnes de nombreuses batailles parce que leur troupes sont tres loyales et disciplinees mais ils ont presque toujours perdu en politique a cause du detachement et dedain qu'ils ressentaient envers les indigenes des pays qu'ils colonisaient ne se sentant jamais chez eux. Aucune assimilation a Dieu ne plaise, il n'y a que l'Angleterre qui compte meme si on s'ancre dans une nouvelle terre. Les francais sont plus aventuries, moins dependants. Tout d'abord ils ne donnent pas de noms de villes francaises dans leurs colonies pour se retrouves un peu chez eux., ils n'eprouvent pas ce besoin de se sentir attaches du nombril a la mere patrie et ils construisent toute une infrastructure pour les gens des pays qu'ils occupent. Ils traitent plus facilement avec les autres. Tres differents. Les francais prennent mais ils apportent beaucoup, les anglais prennent. A peu d'exceptions, la France a garde avec tout le reste du monde d'excellentes relations. Cela n'a pas ete le cas de l'Angleterre pendant des siecles. Les choses ont change mais uniquement grace au temps et aux dernieres generations plus ouvertes d'esprit.
      Un exemple de la pensee differente des deux pays. Dans cette video, bien que ce ne soit qu'un film, Sharpe essaye de proteger l'un des siens et les deux cavaliers francais le relachent. Pour les remercier, au lieu de leur donner le champ libre, il les tues. Il est normal que les Anglais se plaignaient au pres des francais avec un refrain qui a peu change que les francais se battaient pour l'argent et qu'eux se battaient pour "l'honneur". Il est donc aussi parfaitement normal que Surcouf reponde que "chacun se bat pour ce qui lui manque". Deux peuples tres differents. Les anglais ont rarement ete magnanimes, par contre le long de l'histoire les francais l'ont souvent demontre avec largesse. Il faut voir les choses avec du recul. Nul peuple n'est parfait mais les differences restent toujours prononcees.

  • @piggypoo
    @piggypoo 5 років тому +3

    wow, some of those sequences were dangerous!

  • @MrLewkon
    @MrLewkon 3 роки тому +1

    If you take a look at the white four angels cavaliers hats. You will see that this soldiers were Poles who has fight on the French side apart of the officer cause obviously he was French

  • @raditya5663
    @raditya5663 5 років тому +1

    Most accurate stone thrower

  • @modenasolone
    @modenasolone Рік тому

    Hiding behind behind some rocks, Sharpe, wont do.

  • @13141Scott
    @13141Scott Місяць тому

    Suffocating a man while he can still breath through his nose?
    Now thats soldiering

  • @Jack-ff2zs
    @Jack-ff2zs 3 роки тому +2

    There used to be so many of the chosen men then in the last few episodes there's only 3

    • @WI1987
      @WI1987 3 роки тому

      Chosen Man was a rank ... I believe it was comparable to today's rank of Lance Corporal.

  • @FrenchFroglegsWithGarlic
    @FrenchFroglegsWithGarlic 5 років тому +19

    Looks like uhlan uniform....

  • @jerryrexmmiiireg3271
    @jerryrexmmiiireg3271 Рік тому

    What were they doing camped in level open field where they would be at a disadvantage against cavalry? First rule of War is to take advantage of the terrain around you and access your strengths and weakness and that of your enemy.

  • @leeball4585
    @leeball4585 2 роки тому

    1:28 Nooo! Not the bloke who wrote the 'quiet man' speeches for Iain Duncan Smith!!!

  • @foolslayer9416
    @foolslayer9416 4 роки тому

    Idiots shouldn't have camped out in the open. Ridges on either side are ideal for an ambush, only one way into the valley and one way out.

  • @OneofInfinity.
    @OneofInfinity. 4 роки тому

    She does not say "we need" she knew she needed him in the first episode.

  • @juliof6423
    @juliof6423 3 роки тому

    Salut à tous, Français et Britanniques est ce une série ou un film? avec lord Starck en plus, je ne connaissais pas...

  • @broncosgjn
    @broncosgjn 5 років тому +46

    First up I love Sharpe but the French Surprise attack is a lame bit of BS. In the actual army on all sides they had pickets. The name came from picket fence which was a system where the sentries were spread out in sight of each other and usually in twos. To gain surprise you had to kill 2 sentries and do it so the next pickets on either side did not see it. However in addition you would have a lookout. That would be a further out position on a high point with a view of the surrounding approach points.
    That is why these kill the sentry looking the other way and get a total surprise things are only on movies and TV. Surprisingly professional armies learned something from thousands of years of war. However script writes and authors need easy ways to set up a story. Pity they just don't think a bit harder and have something plausible instead of ruining good stories with BS like this. Also there is always a response party fully armed loaded and ready to fight under the command of the duty officer at the center of the camp prepared to respond to the pickets warning. Otherwise why have a warning if there is no way to respond to it?
    Now I am not nitpicking this is glaring mistake city and I have enjoyed the Sharpe stuff for having quite a lot of basic military realism mixed with its fantasy element. It is just lazy on the pat of the writer or director.

    • @mungo7136
      @mungo7136 5 років тому +3

      I do not know the number of men they are supposed to represent. Just from the scene - should they make your picket from pairs plus overwatch plus response team there hardly would be any men left.
      At the same time - I do not it would be possible to bring such a body of cavalry so close without notice unless specially prepared. Hooves and metal-metal clang would be heard long before.

    • @iii-ei5cv
      @iii-ei5cv 5 років тому +11

      Are you saying you don't believe some commanders didn't always set a proper watch?

    • @Tiger74147
      @Tiger74147 5 років тому +7

      Isn't the point that the captain didn't set his watch properly?

    • @broncosgjn
      @broncosgjn 5 років тому

      @@mungo7136 Yep. I thought the same but did not add that.

    • @broncosgjn
      @broncosgjn 5 років тому +1

      @@iii-ei5cv There were standing orders for watch keeping and it was something you just did .

  • @teytreet7358
    @teytreet7358 Рік тому

    I feel like Sharpe made a tactical mistake here. He had high ground and superior position with accurate rifles. He could have taken out at least half the calvary and the regiment probably could have stand a chance.

    • @robowisanveithasung6022
      @robowisanveithasung6022 Рік тому

      he did it on purpose to make himself and his men hidden from the enemy, that's why he told the rest of the Chosen Men to hold their fire

  • @patlelion
    @patlelion 5 років тому +1

    Frenchies knows always better things about war....

  • @dominiksobel6343
    @dominiksobel6343 3 роки тому +1

    +Mm... wyglądali jak polscy ułani... They look like a polish cavalery.

  • @arkroyal1379
    @arkroyal1379 5 років тому +12

    Polish uhlans beat them!Napoleon always said when French couldn't beat enemy give me My Poles Guard and Polish many times destroyed enemies like battle of Somosierra or anothers battles but very sad is NAPoleon betrayed Polish soldiers in the end (his end)but some polish uhlans left with him to his death.

  • @christianwerler5419
    @christianwerler5419 3 роки тому

    I don't get it....why didn't they support...they are snipers or not.
    Maybe the ambush would have been disturbed... with concentrated fire the horsemen could have been confused

  • @snakeenjoyingacanofbeans5219
    @snakeenjoyingacanofbeans5219 5 років тому +2

    Mr Sharpe please find your hat

  • @janreznak881
    @janreznak881 5 років тому +33

    The Spanish woman...nice...

  • @georgedelanoy9548
    @georgedelanoy9548 4 роки тому +4

    Vive la France 🇫🇷

    • @lvlc6023
      @lvlc6023 3 роки тому

      Vive la Belgique 🇧🇪

    • @georgedelanoy9548
      @georgedelanoy9548 3 роки тому

      @@lvlc6023 la Belgique c’est la France voyons. L’Angleterre vous a créer de toute pièce ! Les wallons sont français. Nous avons les meme origines , nous parlons la même langue , la même culture , identité ... ça sera bien un jour de réunir notre peuple ! Nous pourrions faire des grandes choses. Après ce n’est que min avis.

    • @lvlc6023
      @lvlc6023 3 роки тому

      @@georgedelanoy9548 Notre sainte devise est :"Le Roi, la Loi, la Liberté".
      Nous avons certe une histoire commune. Mais nous somme maintenant une nation souveraine.

    • @georgedelanoy9548
      @georgedelanoy9548 3 роки тому

      @@lvlc6023 bien sûr je ne met pas en doute votre indépendance. Mais typiquement votre état ne fonctionne pas bien. Il y a des tensions communautaires entre wallons et flamands (et avec les immigrés en plus), vous n’avez toujours pas de gouvernement ... ne pensez vous pas qu’il serait temp que le peuple français de tous les pays se réunissent. Les suisses français , les belges français , pourquoi pas les québécois , les cajuns ... tous nos frères dispersées dans le monde.

    • @lvlc6023
      @lvlc6023 3 роки тому

      @@georgedelanoy9548 La France n'est pas plus en forme que nous. La Belgique à ces problèmes, c'est vrai. Mais nous n'avons pas besoin d'autres pays pour les résoudres.
      L'histoire, c'est l'histoire. Les choses changent.

  • @ammarsulaiman5069
    @ammarsulaiman5069 5 років тому +1

    Support french from malaysia...

  • @erke9123
    @erke9123 4 роки тому

    If your camping in a field with no protection and only hills to stand on
    Your screwed

  • @recon7580
    @recon7580 4 роки тому +1

    british fighting like true british, hiding in the side and wait for the end !

  • @sheldon-cooper
    @sheldon-cooper 4 роки тому

    Something something...
    That's soldiering

  • @jayduke8554
    @jayduke8554 Рік тому

    Most cowardice thing I’ve ever seen the British do!

  • @umeda777
    @umeda777 3 роки тому +1

    What a nice ambush~

  • @jeffreyadams648
    @jeffreyadams648 5 років тому +21

    They have no sentries?

    • @pauldonvito8270
      @pauldonvito8270 5 років тому +21

      wasn't that the guy who got the garrotte (sp?) at the start?

    • @broncosgjn
      @broncosgjn 5 років тому +12

      My thoughts exactly. They had pickets which were from picket fence which was a system where the sentries were spread out in sight of each other and usually in twos. You had to kill 2 sentries and do it so the next pickets on either side did not see it. That is why these things are only on movies and TV. Surprisingly professional armies learned something from thousands of years of war. However script writes and authors need easy ways to set up a story. Pity they just don't think a bit harder and have something plausible instead of ruining good stories with BS like this. Also there is always a response party fully armed loaded and ready to fight under the command of the duty officer at the center of the camp prepared to respond to the pickets warning. Otherwise why have a warning if there is no way to respond to it?

    • @pauldonvito8270
      @pauldonvito8270 5 років тому +5

      @@broncosgjn some really great info in your reply, thankyou. I guess realism in film is a risky business. you want to convey 'grit' but you also don't want to inundate audiences with much of the mundanity of military routine. allegedly master and commander failed because many people found it boring (though, i believe, a very realistic depiction). horses for courses when it comes to cinema i guess.

    • @broncosgjn
      @broncosgjn 5 років тому +4

      @@pauldonvito8270 Yep. I think Sharpe is pretty good usually. You make a good point. If people are interested though another issue here were the saber cuts killing guys outright which was not true. Survival from saber cuts was quite high and you usually had a bleeding issue which if not resolved might get you. So soldiers could and did often fight on with saber cuts as they were shallow bleeding wounds. They could be sewn up. Stabs were often fatal although if the wound was not into the lung or heart or spine you could still operate but you would die later from the deep wound which could not be treated. But as you say here the defeat of the riflemen was part of the story line. Saber armed cavalry were very good at pursuing broken infantry but not very good at wiping out a unit of infantry. This is not a complaint just an observation.

    • @ethandunn6498
      @ethandunn6498 4 роки тому +1

      Jeffrey Adams they literally had just arrived, sharpes party were the scouts. But i agree they shouldve sent more out

  • @jaakkovaisanen5396
    @jaakkovaisanen5396 5 років тому +17

    The French are Europe's bravest! All hail France!

    • @raymondbourcicault7737
      @raymondbourcicault7737 5 років тому +8

      im french and sorry but italians arent cowards thy fight well in lots wars.
      the cowards are only behind computers@Gazzara5

    • @user-wh8mb7tm2g
      @user-wh8mb7tm2g 5 років тому +4

      Trashed by the british lmao england is a french colony

    • @titi710
      @titi710 5 років тому +3

      yes it became a colony thanks to william the conqueror, duc of normandy

    • @alexfitch9427
      @alexfitch9427 5 років тому +1

      FOR SALE ! French Army rifle, new condition, cheap; only dropped once.

    • @naprcanejtucnakcz9711
      @naprcanejtucnakcz9711 5 років тому

      how many french soldiers you need to defend Paris?
      no one knows because no one has ever try it

  • @benjaminjacquelin746
    @benjaminjacquelin746 5 років тому +1

    Honneur et gloire

  • @fandityadwiputra
    @fandityadwiputra Рік тому

    Why don't the company survived? Can anyone explain about cavalry charge?

  • @niezlomny11
    @niezlomny11 5 років тому +1

    Envelope hats and yellow-blue uniforms had Polish troops. They were excellent cavalry and very ruthless. It is wrong to attribute the cavalry power to the cuirass of the French Cuirassiers. Lanciers were the real strength. The horse's impetus focused on the lance's grotto. They pierced the enemy through them. That's why fighting with Poles was so terrible and they were practicing hunting for wild boars. Also tearing out pegs from tents. The English-scorning Poles were painfully convinced of this in Malaga. Lance is an ancient weapon of Polish cavalry. She came to them from the east. For Poles it was art and mastered it to perfection. Then the cavalry of all armies fought with the lance. Especially Mexico. They had good foot. The Vistula Guard is a legend to this day and the Espania of Polish Uhlan called hellish riders. Poles in the Napoleon Army are not a very convenient topic for Espania and Englishmen. They pretend that they do not know what's going on. It is a pity that they know how to investigate what Poles know and tell lies. This fact, Poles this time hate enemy and England. They invazion Sarmatian Poland and slave. England colaboration Russia and Prusia. Poles dont keep prisoners. They units fear enemy. I'm Polish. My ancestor killed the English like a lance like a saber, a cross technique at the Battle of Fureingola. I have his saber to this day. Hanging on the wall is a family souvenir. He always said that the English were mean pigs without honor and partitioners in white gloves. I think he was right. Who financed the ISIS weapon as not the English pseudo government. This is just one of the crimes of this vile nation. A nation of hybrids and subhumans. The same is what the Russians say about the English during the Crimean War. Poles, Russians, Iran and Turkey certainly unites one. Zoological hatred of this vile nation without the honor and criminal whore of Europe, called England. The Arabs should make a nuclear attack on London. They will not do it, because English and criminal pigs finance the ISIS weapon.

  • @arturkaminski9570
    @arturkaminski9570 4 роки тому +1

    This is only film . But the real fight of Polish Ulans=Lancers in Spain -Napoleonic Wars you can find here -links below : Samossiera 1808 the charge of Ulans and Battle of Fuengirola 1810 where the Polish soldiers were fighting against British -look at Wikipedia about it-link below.

  • @hollandmeester347
    @hollandmeester347 5 років тому +3

    Famous 95th rifle brigade. Famous in Holland.
    Not French but Polish cavalery.

    • @bebased1785
      @bebased1785 5 років тому

      Holland Meester led by the French

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 5 років тому

      Serving in the French Army. Hence French cavalry.

    • @hollandmeester347
      @hollandmeester347 5 років тому

      @@SantomPh Yes, serving under Napoleon in the French army, but still Polish cavalery, not French cavalery. You do not like to admit a mistake, right??

    • @thatonecrytian8997
      @thatonecrytian8997 5 років тому

      U mean *Cavalry

    • @hollandmeester347
      @hollandmeester347 5 років тому

      @@thatonecrytian8997 No I mean Polish cavalery. Do you lack the
      intelligence of knowing foreign words???

  • @BorisSpinoza
    @BorisSpinoza 3 місяці тому

    Of cause Sharp would prevail even it were Germans of the Panthers!

  • @vijayvgaikwad
    @vijayvgaikwad 5 років тому +1

    What is the name of movie? Which year eleased?

    • @StonesSticksBones
      @StonesSticksBones 5 років тому +1

      Sharpe's Rifles (it's a TV series), 1993 I think

  • @DBSSTEELER
    @DBSSTEELER 3 роки тому

    So a horse charge over open field for more than 300 yards Against men armed with rifles and nobody fired a shot. This is about the least realistic thing I have ever seen.

  • @Dreams0fChaos
    @Dreams0fChaos 3 роки тому

    She literally meant that's her man

  • @szaki
    @szaki 4 роки тому

    Armies all ways have look outs, don't just set camp and hopping the best?