That`s war for you.

The heat does that to you.

Spain is a wonderful country to live in, lad.

Now that's soldiering, eh?

One does not simply walk into Mordor... 🤓

😂😂

Totally read that in a Sheffield accent!

Perfect!

lol

I can see why Sharpe was dead set against ever wearing a red jacket again!

Thats soldiering

War ages some people ya know

In India your youth lasted until your first bout with fever.

Life in circa 1800 England was hard enough, add soldiering and India into the mix and you're lucky if you only look fifty

@@patrickturner6878 Which wouldn't explain why he mysteriously de-aged in time for the Peninsular War and then aged back to late forties.

British Imperialising*

British colonialism

and Thank God for it too! It gets a bad rap these days but India needed the strong, paternalistic white hand of Empire to kick start their social development.

The Company, in this case.

@ "Poor men dying to make rich men richer? Now that's capitalism." No it isn't socialist. wrong framing! The correct framing is... "Poor AND Rich men dying to make their Country Richer? Now that's Mercantilism" Capitalism is were people produce goods and services for profit to which they then "FREELY" Trade with each other... and by "FREELY" Trade I mean... to trade without tariffs and subsidies on traded goods. The British Empire was by definition Mercantile... not Capitalist. It wasn't until the repeal of the corn laws in 1846 that Britain went form being a mercantile Country... to a Capitalist Country. The British Empire was by definition still Mercantile, yet The Mother Country was not anymore. Britain hasn't been Capitalist since the Great War, with a brief shift back to being mercantile between the two wars, and then after the war Britain moved to a very very mixed economy consisting of Mercantilism, Capitalism, Corporatism and Socialism, which is still the case to day in Britain, although in a much more moderate way than it was in the post war era. www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-mercantilism.html

No he di di di did not

@@olorin1710 That wasn't good s s s soldiering!

Yes but pretty useless as a soldier.

Dodd propably hated him because he was a captain,while he himself never rose over the rank of lieutenant.

What's the context here why are they killing fellow Indians and Brittons?

King george commands and we obey over the hills and far away

Thank god he got to retire at his family's country home in Westeros. Haven't heard from him for a while after that though....ah, it's probably just a problem with the mail.

This straight buckled me

And when he was really young he fought an American for a field before getting kicked in the head by a bull

Dover

Not so much a season as one flashback scene in one episode.

You want to know the whole of sharpest story read the books

@@theradgegadgie6352is it not from Sharpe’s Challenge?

Guess he was pretty relieved about it!

As a serving soldier I can confidently confirm that an opportune piss is a good way to avoid danger/shit work.

Lots of GOT actors

With Fire and Steel Sharpe, But not with my Cartridges.

@@Scrubject16 I do not know why, but I read this in Simmerson's voice.

The Sharpe series started in 1993 and the guy you're talking about was born in 1992. So it likely would have been total garbage, or extremely hilarious.

that guy sucks so much it's insane, don't get any late season GOT or Rings of Power stuff near Sharpe I say

Cannons of sufficient caliber were not available.

They caught him off guard..

I really thought it was all over for a day or two, then he posted this gem.

OMG KING JAX, ALL HAIL SOUP

Calling the WW2 italian army formidable, is mighty generous of you

You deserve my respect

Stole all your gold though

We?

lol keep bootlicking the Brits who couldn't give a damn about some low caste benchods

Bean is like wine.. but he's still a sour bastard

Dodd was basically the anti-sharpe

Yeah they used 80 pounds instead of the 79 for waterloo

That's because it did have a higher production design than Waterloo.

The India specials were made a few years later and they got a bit of a higher budget for it. Still can't make Sean Bean look like the 28 year old he's supposed to be in this scene

Arse biscuits, tosh, piffle and gibberish.

​@@mortman200 Well, do you know an actor that looks like a "younger Sharpe"? As far as I know there aren't relatives of Sean around that resemble him and could play that.

Why did that english guy shot and killed his own kin ? can you explain ?

@@gangasinghrathore4709 a rogue general craving for money I guess

Same reason anyone does. If Cain can kill Able, his own brother, after the Lord tried to talk him out of it, then it is easy for a man to kill his own country men. It’s easier for imperial forces to do so as well because of the less intimate relationship then might hold. As an American I have read of many defectors who got greedy.

Sarnt Sharpe not only makes the only show of spirited defense out of the whole garrison (with 3 kills) but when shot in the head merely cops a scalp graze. The raiders then neglect to check whether he is really dead whilst leisurely finishing off all his wounded comrades, thus enabling him to be the sole survivor of a near-total massacre. Nope, no plot armour here!

@@corvusboreus2072 In the book when he's trying to hold still a fly lands right on his eyeball.

accuracy of period yes but none of the events in sharpe series is real

it's all made up? how did he know what kind of story to tell?@@Iason29

The book Sharpe's tiger which explains his early time in India wasn't released until 1997 which explains why

He was only politically opposed to Wellington he had nothing to do with the Peninsular campaign. He was interested in leading the British campaign but when the command was given to Wellington Tarleton flatly refused to serve under him. And as Sharpe wants nothing to do with politics it wouldn't have made sense to Bring him in. He is mentioned in the books, there is a scene where Wellington grips about the things Tarleton is saying about him in parliament during one of the campaign's setbacks.

He's referenced though - the "cousin at Horse Guards" to whom Simmerson refers in Sharpe's Eagle is Tarleton

The show wasn’t made for US audiences lol

In the novel they did. Sharpe only survived because he had a head wound and they thought for sure he was dead.

They told me they thought you looked cool in your hat too, have a nice day

Shame they should have updated it to Napoleon Total War level. TW Empire is too laggy.

We are mighty, and unbowed!

General Staff Sir!

Ah, Empire.total war... the game that got me the most excited and eventually ruined my faith in the franchise. Never been as big of a fan.

He's too old now.Only a quiet,peaceful epilogue would make sense now.

Tadicuslegion78 dude is great in everything I’ve seen him in

He really IS great in everything! I enjoy this role in particular because he seems to shamelessly enjoy playing it.

He blew me away in the black sails series..

He's absolutely brutal as Captain Flint in Black Sails, definitely channels the same intensity as Dodd. If you haven't, watch it.

@@cognitivedisability9864 Yeah he really steals the scenes he's in in that show. His monologues and speeches are works of art

Next episode, Peril, Major Tredinnick and the young ensign Beauclere, both are not tactical geniuses but do their best. Good standard officers really

Well Harry Price was nice enough but a drunk. Oh no sorry, I see you covered that as a paragon of British virtue! ;)

Capt Leroy was a perfectly good officer. And amusingly enough, Wagon-Master General Col Runciman, who was a social-climbing sectarian asshole with no personal hygiene, but was possibly Sharpe's *least* incompetent superior officer (he trusted his subordinates, knew what he was and wasn't capable of, and generally was a perfectly adequate officer.)

You need to read about Lt. Flashman in Afganistan.

Cpt. Leroy & Frederikson? Pyecroft? Wagon-Master General Whatever-That-Guy-Was-Called?

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the men were in full uniform, no challenge was required. The EIC was also famously inept at these things.

@@SantomPh That's not true, you challenge regardless of uniforms, that's what countersigns are for.

I guess it comes down to incompetence. No one is fully at the ready at all times, things get boring and repetitive so people get lax. That goes for any job.

Dodd was a recent deserter, he would have known any countersigns

Reminds me of U-571.

Yep that’s the Spice King!

i dunno what happened actually, but that's called Treasoning

Right, East India Garrison, off we fuck!

I’m more put off by the red coat. Where is the Rifle man green we know and love! Not that’s not it at all, NOT AT ALL!

Killer Joy in the books, sharpe started as a private in the 33rd, a line regiment. When he was given his battlefield commission he was sent to the 95th

When he was commissioned he went to a Scots regiment, he didn’t settle with them and basically didn’t fit in. It was suggested to him that he try a new regiment, the experimental corps of riflemen aka the 95th. The 95th encouraged more independent intelligent thinking from all of its members it was felt he would fit in better than in an established old regiment..

Achievement Earned: *Playing Dirty*

Barely...

Me too

28.

Lol

Was there a fire fight here!?

This episode (Sharpe's Challenge) is a sequel, this part is just a flashback