The scene where the fleeing Wayne on horseback stops to salute the boys as they storm his position. Excellent.

The Virginia Military Institute marched out at the Battle of New Market, captured a Union battery and lost 13 dead. Most of those boys were under the age of 18. Almost all had lost both brothers, fathers, cousins and uncles in the war. Many families lost every male.

One of my favourite Wayne movies!

"Bonnie Blue Flag'' / "The Irish Jaunting Car" tune has remained with me all my life...

I was always reminded of this scene while watching the movie, "High Road to China". Tom Selleck is recounting his WWI experiences while drunk, and someone asks him about one of his exploits. He explained how easy it was... how it was just children who could barely do a loop they were sending up against him, because they had nothing else left.

One of my favorite John Wayne movies.

One of John Wayne best films👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I like that "you call that coffee",toss

I love John Wayne westerns too

Those Southern boys will be dining out on that charge for the rest of their lives😸

I love the one kid who runs on with his broken (obviously prop) rifle!

i love john wayne! "you call that coffee?!" toss

Great movie! The Greierson raid with hollywood effects! Love the cannons! At least they recoil when fired!

The best fight scene in a John Wayne movie has to go to the fight in the mud in McClintock!

Without supplies and in the last stages of a ground scorching war those boys were only a threat to anything within half a days march. In short I agree that Wayne did the right thing.

This is my favorite civil war movies!

The original scene turn to tragic, sad, and funny in the same movie. Magistral. I´ll never forget the part when the children soldiers march crossing their own town, the women (all men in war) stared at them in silent and a crying mother begged to keep alive the only member alive from the shildren who are going to battled. She finally get it, although the kid try to resist the desition. He is the one with the drum. Because lately he escaped from his home to joined their pals.

On 15 May, 1864 some 251 VMI cadets from age 15 and up, more likely some were younger then 15, assaulted Union troops at the battle of Newmarket. 10 were killed and 48 wounded. This scene was biased on that charge.

The best War scene Ever! x

What would we do without the classics

The Horse Soldiers very good movie with good music

I vote for the epic fight with Victor McLaughlin in the quite man, even a dying man got out of bed for that one

Most people don't know that this movie, The Horse Soldiers, was based on an actual Union raid during Grant's seige of Vicksburg.

That is based on a true story of the cadets of VMI My ancestor Thomas Williamson taught there and was in charge of the artillery it was called the battle of New Market. The cadets turned the Yankee troops back. But lost 16 boys in the process.

Something like this happened once but the Union troops did NOT hold their fire. Look up "Field of Lost Shoes."

La mejor película de John Wayne y John Ford. Muy bien lograda para mi, donde el DUKE SE LUCE COMO EL CORONEL. MARLOWE.

Man! Had such a crush on Constance Towers when I was a kid and saw this movie. What a babe.

Haha nice going Darlin!

Based on something that really happened, more than once, usually with tragic results.

I really enjoy The Horse Soldiers. John Wayne's character was a lot different than in most of his films. He played a short tempered hard ass in charge carrying a bitterness towards doctors with little compassion throughout the whole film,which was a different role for him as we normally see. Red River was another film he was rough and tumble in as well.

Love The Horse Soldiers it's a great movie

"You Dirty Yankee!!!"

"Well that holy joe ain't no kid". Lol!!

I do love this

"Croaker!" "Sectionhand!"

One of my favorites of the DUKE.....

There was no need to engage the cadets. His primary mission was completed with the destruction of the railroad depot. the next part of the mission was now to extract his regiment and get them back to friendly lines. Getting involved in a meaningless firefight would only incur casualties (which he would have ot leave behind) and waste valuable ammo. Being mounted, he could easily escape, so it was the most logical choice.

Yankee had a full combat veteran brigade against children, schoolboys and a holy joe. Instead of setting up a field hospital, he gets the "hell out of here" LOL. Spanks a captured "prisoner" LOL GREAT SCENE.

0:00 . . . . When John Wayne talks even Abe Lincoln stops to listen . . . . . . . . Take THAT Chuck Norris !

You are SO eloquent that it takes my breath away, and for you to express yourself without using vulgar language is SO commendable.

best part of the whole movie :)

At 1:47 "dang it Sargent tha cricks a-ploding"

That's a scene from The Horse Soldiers. Pretty good JW movie. Liked it so much I bought it to go with my JW Trilogy... Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande. Another cute scene was at the dinner table when Constance Towers leans over the table toward JW holding a tray of chicken with her ample cleavage exposed and says, "Would you like a Leg or a BREAST?". Earlier in the movie, she turns to the camera after seeing Union troops first coming up the lane, exclaiming, "Them's Yankees!". It was comical to say the least.

great movie!

For their whole lives those boys could say "Those Yankees ran from us, FROM US!"

Biggest battle he was ever in

I don't think anyone would have looked upon him in scorn though. When a kid holds a rifle with bayonet, he's not a kid anymore, he's a soldier.....

While this clip is quite amusing, I think the most hilarious John Wayne fight scene is in the movie "McClintock"!

This isn't history but it's truly great American film making, Thanks,

For those that don't know, the guy that spanked the kid is Ken Curtis (aka festus from Gunsmoke and one of the "do it mean what I think it do?" guyse from the alamo)

Windemere Ga the local Military Academy sent Troops/students to defend the town. While seemingly funny such things did happen during the bloodletting of 1860 to 1865

Probably the strangest fights (as in the 2nd of 2) was in John Wayne's: The Barbarian and The Geisha! (He got his A-- handed to him!

@davidmarcelou based on an actual cavalry raid by Col. Grierson

didnt happen during GRiersons raid but great historical drama..VMI had 16 boys KIA

LOL, funny scenes!

2..07 in the air haha smoke from a plane

Your manners, as a Yankee gentleman, are as always, impeccable!!!! WHO said our society is becoming less civil!!!!

You need to see fight scene The Spoilers with Randolph Scott and Marleen Dietrich one of the Longest he ever did.

Festus is so country!

the best fight was in the quiet man

In a way he showed sense. Would you want to be the Officer who gave the order to shoot at some kids? Even though they are cadets. They'd be looked upon with scorn on both sides.He did the right thing. Could've chased those boys off with a good cavalry charge.

Holden actually hit John Wayne. That was real. The movie was loosely based on actual events.

"There goes the only man I ever respected. He's what every boy thinks he's going to be when he grows up and wishes he had been when he's an old man." Nathan stark

Battle of New Market the cadets of VMI fought a delaying action and several died in the skirmish. May GOD bless the Southern Boys of Virginia Military Institute.

Imagine that... actual recoil from the canons.

I’d be embarrassed if kids rolled two cannon that close to my cavalry unit, and then it took so long to react.

I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE DUKE N W.HOLDEN

Sorry the mudslide fight in McClintock was much funnier

I love this movie.

My Favourite John Wayne spanking film

Great

They are making a new AI-generated John Wayne movie for today's generation, it's called 'Handbags from Hell."

The Yankees weren't that chivalrous in real life. The boys of vmi at new market were mowed down like blades of grass by them.

Based loosely on the Grierson raid of 1863 during the Vicksburg campaign ,all the references to Andersonville prison are historically inaccurate. Andersonville was not in operation until 1864......Thats from a Limey !

A similar scene is in Dr Zhivago. The Reds returned fire.

4:27, SPANK EM! LMAO

dam Festus and the Duke together

Great fight scene- even if you were a yankee- you would appreciate its humor!

This is based on a true story.

Check out John Wayne's one-one one with Randolph Scott in The Spoilers (1942).

The Cannons are named Peter and Paul.

i would have to agree

The Horse Soldiers! Great flick thanks for posting! With of course the obligatory arguments about the Civil War in the comment section sigh!

What movie was this? I haven't seen it.

Hi there Festus!

Waal pilgrim now either them kids were fast runners or the damn horses were slow

IS THAT FESTUS!?

@davidmarcelou The Horse Soldiers

Rose's. Little flourish of music at the end of the sequence when one of the boys crawls under the stump and the old reverend comes dottering down the slope. Movie is loosely based on the Garrison raid into Mississippi during the Civil War.

Does anyone know what the tune is that the young rebs are marching to?

What film is this?

Grecho murg sleffeffs.

I never said anything about that and yes they lost clearly, anything else you would like to add Capt Obivious?

But it was one of his biggest films

Sorry that last link was wrong subject. My apologies. (PB 1913 seeds of conflict)

Major Barksdale looks like Peyton Manning.

Salt is one of the three ingredients to gunpowder

That's one of those things that isn't true, but ought to be. It is inspired by the charge of the student body of the Virginia Military Institute at the Battle of New Market. The Yankees most definitely shot back that day. I understand the boys here were really students at a real military school near where the movie was being shot. I bet they had the time of their lives doing this.

¿Cómo se llama esta película en castellano? MAgnífica.

Festus !