He's biding his time, waiting for his moments. Twenty years after the war is over, that's when he'll strike.

Leave it to the French to mess it up 😂

😂😂😂I was same

you don't always die instantly

Or ... and this is just a suggestion .... people don't always instantly die when mortaly wounded : P He closed his eyes because he is in pain.

This is the third time Ducos has really screwed the pooch with Calvet. 1st was the time he told Calvet that Sharpe had no Artillery. Wrong. 2nd was when he convinced Calvet to use his powder reserves as bait, which were exploded. And now he has him march away from the war to help him fight a personal vendetta, leading to the expedition being annihilated. Ducos is a dip shit looking for a field promotion to well dressed corpse.

@@spartanxmonster spoiler alert... :D

@@archonix Oh? Whoops. I guess that makes me FILLLLTTHHHH

@@archonix the General in Sharpe's Enemy (the no artillery one) is Chaumier rather than Calvet

It was Cresson not Ducos who convinced Calvet to use his powder reserves as bait.

Wasn't just that, Ducos believed Wellington was moving his forces there (as Wellington wanted him to believe), vengeance against Sharpe was just Sauce for the Goose.

@@FerretJohn I like that, Sauce for the Goose, here in America we say Icing on the Cake. Ducos still had a perfectly legit 15 year spy come out of hiding to capture a single major in a breached castle held by only 50 men. Men without connons, supplies, reinforcements, or even a powder magazine. Easiest road to victory would have been to skirmish out thier remaining ammo and then put it to the sword. It was piss poor strategy all around. Even worse since you let both english forces in the castle have a victory, even if the colonel's "victory" was a ploy/ruse.

@@spartanxmonster Never cared much for Armchair Quarterbacking, too many people who sit in front of their screens thinking they're a Tactical Genius.

@@FerretJohn : / Marine Corps Raider Regiment, 3rd Battalion, MARSOC/USSOCOM Sleep tight.

@@spartanxmonster Yeah, and I'm a Jedi Master trained by Yoda himself. May the Force be with you.

He was a casualty of nappy time.

Are they friendlies?... No... I'm dead dont mind me

😂😂😂😂 blink

Now, thats soldering!

well in that time of war, I would have done same as him. fake my death amongs the dead corpse. This is real acting

@@simonlaw9234 According to the Sharpe series Wikipedia article, the actor who played Cooper had a disagreement with the production team.

It's war; comrades die.

Are you saying Sean Bean played a role in which the character he plays survived?

@@OnlyKaerius Sean Bean is not dying in this series. (DING!)

Hagman was the best

not the first, nor the last, soldiers to have that experience

@@dont-want-no-wrench Certainly not, but there was something fundamentally cruel about Dickensian England. It was a common theme throughout Sharpe Novels contrasting the rationality and cleanliness of the Netherlands or France compared to the primitive barbarity of Spain and the "high tech" Barbarity of England. Sharpe loved his king and his country but he was under no illusions that the UK at this time was a wicked place and ended up living in France after the war. It was like the industrial age met Feudalism and it took a few generations for society to catch up but during that time we had the wonders of modern technology mixed with the brutality of the medieval age. Which just made the whole era a particularly noxious part of British history. My own paternal ancestor was given over to indentured servitude to a black smith and rather than be what amounts to a slave for 7 years he jumped a ship for the USA in 1817. My very existence as an American is a testament to the cruelty of that age.

@@patrickturner6878 Huh, is that why both the irish n the scots dislike the english in the novel?

@@eleethtahgra7182 The Scots and Irish dislike the English even today. What's your point?

@@patrickturner6878 fishing for info mate. I have no idea how other perceive the english. So, the dislike shown in the novel is an accurate depiction of today's sentiment toward the english?

Hogan always gets him to the places where he'll do the most good

In the words of Sir Henry Simmerson, “well, he’s only an engineer, sir.”

0:11 When you check your surroundings to see if you should be dead... That is soldering

Now that’s commenting

Hats, now that's soldiering

Go watch the Golden Throne Webway Gate and stop commenting on Sharpe, Vulkan.

@@mwnciboo I am watching the Gate! I just watch a few vids on my break is that so wrong!?

I want to see him in Adran blues as Field Marshal Tamas in the adaptation of the Powdermage Trilogy

I think about how his career would have been different, had Sean bean beaten pierce brosnan to the bond role in 94. I once read it was close. He would have been better. Just my opinion. His ability to convey ruthless brutality, but also tender compassion, would have made him a great bond.

@@justinbergmans36 Sharpe and Bond actually share a lot of similarities : both are orphans, know a lot about women but all the women they've known never stayed for long. The only difference is that Sharpe is not alcoholic.

as he grew up in a fishing village one suggests he also came from the ranks like Sharpe

🤣

Yeah, I really liked Captain Palmer :)

Palmer then kicked the colonel in the balls

Pretty much. In the books, Sharpe knowingly or sometimes inadvertently, ruined several of Ducos' plans. It wounded his pride that a common soldier, of perceived limited intellect, kept wrecking his meticulously planned political machinations. Breaking his glasses just added insult to injury.

Duco is duplicitous and arrogant and had tried to steal French treasure not once but twice. He is not there for the French cause and was nearly executed for losing a French Column to Sharpe's rocket artillery and Fredrickson's company. He's nearly a French Simmerson.

To be fair his plans often are sound, when cunnings and luck were given Sharpe got second, third and fourth servings

Oh, that's more than a day's marching.

25 miles for a healthy adult is generally about the max for a single day.

@@charlesoppland7778 and that's if they are well-fed & 'shod'.

Napoleon's men were expected to march 50 miles per day.

Full packs?

that's reconnisance. and that looks like a map from the fortress

There's an LP somewhere. Lots of John Tam's singing on it...

I have the album, ‘Over the Hills and Far Away: The Music of Sharpe’. Well worth a listen if you can find the CD.

As long you live to tell the tale. With mission a success.

Soup is an important reminder of when you had no soup.

with Gaston injured he can't soup

He should have ate Ducos like they did in Russia. Then poor poor Gaston would be fine and happy like we all want him to be.

I wonder how many aides and intelligence officers he has eaten. I wonder how Gaston cooks them.

I just assumed he was wounded.

Fighting is over, don't be a war criminal. They're just soldiers, and Sharpe always will let them surrender.

@@spartanxmonster sorry, my imperialism was showing.

Michael Cabrera he’s pretending to be dead cause he’s scared the English will finish him off.

Okay don't take it that literally I k n o w dead people don't blink lmao and i don't think there's anything to my knowledge that proves whether it was an overlooked hiccup or if it was intentional either way it's just funny

He isn't dead. Dying.

He's Napoleon's real spy...

Leads The Fallen Vlogs Did you expect them to be dead for real?

Not lying, acting! ^^

Harper is Jeremy Clarkson's grandad, change my mind

Thats my style sir.

Look sir, Voltaire!

Calvet will beat Ducos with it later

@@SantomPh Oh, I wish I could see that! LOL Calvet: "Major Ducos, may I ask for your assistance? This chicken needs to be tenderized." *furiously flogs him with chicken*

“Hey! He says he’s not dead!”

@@georgemorley1029 *stab*

Yeah they were a distraction force to free up the enemy’s flank for wellingtons army to be victorious

God knows that Americans don't blink.

when they come through gate look for french moving his hand

Sharpe's Mission. Not derived from the books though

Correction Sharpe's Siege. Much altered from the book though

only a little.

dying and being dead are two different things lel

Steven Lee uktv on now tv apps has all the series.

Tem no KZfaq cara. Porém tu vai ter w entender um pouco de inglês

@Hoa Tattis Wellington and his men were beasts ! No wonder England was powerful !