"A fine body of men sir. Sir Arthur warned me in advance, 'Hogan,' says he, 'the South Essex is a sight to make you shiver.'" Love Hogan's double meanings.

I love how everyone already hates Simmerson before he is even introduced.

I love Hogan's sense of sarcasm. Wish he had stayed for the entire series.

the actor that played Simmerson should have received an Emmy LOL.. He made me want to slap the teeth out of his mouth LOL

Heres to 2020! All the negative stuff and I find this amazing show. Thanks dude!

I find it amazing how Sean Bean is perpetually pidgeonholed into exactly two roles: that of the foreign traitor/badguy or Richard Sharpe, where he plays the dour-faced, serious, but honorable and forthright soldier. Which character he is generally depends on if the film was made by Americans or not.

Man, Brian Cox just owns every scene he's in, but David Troughton gives him a run for his money.

I really hated the electric guitars the first time I watched Sharpe. By now, I am absolutely loving them :-).

Lord Flashheart is stunningly silent in this one.

Good lord, that nose could change a ship's course.

what a great show. I'm so glad someone else remembers this. i grew up with this show.

Takes me back to a simpler time, when I was just Duncan McCloud of the clan McCloud. So many lifetimes ago.

Just found this show, now I'm binge-watching.

4:40 That nose is amazing!

I love that they show you the train of though behind Wellington and Hogan scheming

I'm discovering Sharpe at work while doing 'brainless' tasks - I'm really loving it. Even the electric guitars, which I first felt were out of place but now I'm quite enjoying the effect they bring.

this series reveals more about soldierin' and human character in a shorter amount of time than any show i've seen

we will lose a gallant officer..... forshadowing Simmersons incompetence in getting major lennox killed.

@theathiestalaby That song is the "Rogues's March". It was the song played marching defaulters to punishment. "Twenty I got for selling my coat, Twenty for selling my breeches. If ever I serve in the Army again, the devil will be my Sergeant". The chorus is "Poor, poor soldier, Poor poor soldier"!

The exchange in the beginning is flawless. Wellsley and Hogan discussing tactics, politics, and intrigue in a few syllables. Wellesley's actions might seem repugnant from a honorable position, but there is an underlying pragmatism to him. He would be what the troops refer to as a "proper bastard."

This is the best TV adaptation of a Sharpe book.

Sean Bean was a very good pick. Probably the best for Sharpe. :)

I love the scheming between the nose and Uncle Bradley...

4:32 My God look at the beak on that man.

David Troughton + Brian Cox ROCK!

Cheers mate helped heaps.....those Green Uniforms look pretty badass as well.......

Great show Thank you

I love how Harper just casually shoves a brush full of shaving cream on Sharpe's face LOL

i love the books have all of them & sean bean is the only one i can imagine as sharpe

2021 and still watching. nice one pal

This show is still amazing :D

i love this show i have the whole series

I dont know why but I love the theme music and song for this series. And I love sean bean aswell, plays the part well.

*sees berry* holy crap, its Daniel Craig long before he appeared as Bond O.O

Nice to see Major Hogan's future son became the Captain of the Spurbury State troopers, and good god does the actor playing Wellesley got a huge hooter !

Still blows my mind that Daniel Craig is in this episode lol

4:51 DAMN THATS A BIG ASS NOSE!!!

It's a shame David Troughton (son of 2nd Dr Who Patrick Troughton) didn't want to return to the series, as Wellington he brought a permanent sense of foreboding about him.

brian cox.. ooh yea.. he is just damn good!

A Victory, small but solid...... Now that's soldieeing!

Maggots are a poor mans penicillin, they really work. That’s from an old soldier.

This show is so original and exciting, but I say you could steer a battleship with Troughton's nose.

i love how harper is like no man shes been bought out and i see Sharpe all like yea we'll see about that XD Thats soldiering

Can you please add,the last,episodes to these shows. Out of the original 16 only 14 made it this far! Thank you!

don't forget playing as musicians, that shit be fun. joining a regiment to have line battles is pretty sweet as well.

"hold steady sir" "eargh" leeel

Real good to be playing the "Rogue's March" with the redcoats coming in. That piece is meant to be when drumming someone out of a regiment in disgrace!

wellingtons nose good lord

Watching this again after seeing the whole series I want to throw us looking at this guy

I love how Wellington is adamant about not wanting to lose Sharpe after Hogan says "We might lose a gallant officer". A Lieutenant being of more worth to the General than a Colonel is. Of course I know that the books have Sharpe rescuing Wellington in a much more spectacular manner, but still remains that he respects the man far more than he does a Colonel. A man that can "only" bring victories being more important than one who brings money. Then again, victory IS money.

I love the beginning theme!

In the books Sharpe's men are a small section of a rifle unit that get cut off during the retreat to Coruna earlier in the war. There are about thirty riflemen in the group in the books so it isn't a big unit even if it's not quite as small as here.

thanks i have NEVER seen the tv show but i have read the books so it is a nice change :)

We shall enjoy .

i had watched only hornblower, and my friend told me about sharpe. i am glad he did!

@1988theLAW Perhaps on television, but hornblower was written in the 30's-50's. Sharpe was written in the 80's onwards.

Yup, the dark green uniforms were inherited from the German Jagers, who started using light riflemen a considerable while before the British did. Many Hanoverian officers and soldiers fled to Britain to escape Napoleon's occupation. That, and dark green uniforms make a lot more sense for light infantry than red ones do.

"Who's the boy with the hookey nose? Our Wellie"

Jesus, that's a nose to die for.

I must say that Mr. Bean is looking a great deal better than he used to...

3 irishmen defeating the French Major Hogan Sir Wellington And Sargent Harper

Lord Wellington's nose XD

just follow the playlist order on the right. It's all in the right order there. Each episode. If you don't have a playlist, look up sharpe in KZfaq and you'll find one with all the episodes in order. :)

i was playing Napoleon Total War and i just had to watch this

@Prongsie93 "...the average age for an Ensign joining the Army was 16. Oddly younger than that of their Naval equals at the time..." In the Army a commission could be bought, and the officer didn't necessarily have to be able to do much beyond sit a horse and look good in a uniform. Naval officers were commissioned as Lieutenants at 18, if they could pass an exam in seamanship and navigation, though they may have been at sea first as boys and then as Midshipmen from as young as 8.

I almost think of if as the actual World War I. That period saw about 15 years of warfare in North America, Europe, Africa, and large parts of Asia. And one nation had a prominient role in every area.

dont forgett that most other powers in europe like denmark, france, spain etc were giving the revolutionaries massive amounts of armaments and funds,(which eventually was a factor in frances economic crash in the late 1780s ) and that on the land are troops were vastly out numbered, and the usa troops were fighting a guerilla war more and more.

The nose prosthetic is 'mazing!

thanks for posting this. I love it

David Troughton is Karl Malden in the Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley Story.

Great villains and heroes. Agamemnon and James Bond are in this episode.

The men either loved Wellington or down right hated him.

Wellington's nickname was 'Old Nosey!'

Sean Bean is the man.

Sharpe, Who in their right mind would fight for a cloth on a stick. Hogan, You do my dear boy, you do...

@sniperquasi Thats true the one of the producer's stated that they wanted Hornblower to "take its rightful place on TV alongside sharpe". I enjoy them both, good actors good plots.

Now that's soldering

The british also pushed their naval advantage where they could to avoid land battles.

"You bear the loss with great fortitude", yep money generally does that.

Nice to see 007 & 009 hated each other back then

sharpe is the best book series ive ever read- brilliant- ive read all 20- is it 20 or 21? but yes all of them:P picked up sharpes fury for 1 pound

I never dreamed war was so dramatic.

Sharpe in the books was tall and black-haired, which is hardly the image of a Cockney man frankly. I could just as well have described Benedict Cumberbatch. Sean Bean's not a bad replacement, because the Cockney thing is thanks to a strong association with Cockey accents as being working-class Londoners, but his Northern accent is equally associated with working-class folks.

you're AWESOME!!! thanks for uploading this!!!

He is. He's also son of the actor Patrick Troughton, who's been in Doctor Who.

I like how both Wellsley and Hogan conclude that if anyone were to die in the battle for the bridge, it would be Simmerson, despite Sharpe doing all the heavy lifting: Sharpe is badass to die, and they know it.

Isn’t one of those junior officers in the South Essex James Bond?

Yes..maggots are used to this day! In class (nursing) I learned that it's not just the debridement of the rotten tissue but the secretions produced like ammonium bicarbonate, allantoin, urea etc. are helpful, as well as the fact their movement stimulates blood flow. The maggots they used then were from black blow fly. They've used MT at VGH recently... Studies show hydrogels work just as well and are as cost-effective... I'm cynical and wonder: did a drug co. pay someone off - again!

@Bhumble121 Urm... Sharpe ALWAYS got the girl. He had at least three "marriages" and was engaged about 6 times. There's a reason Harper once said "Sharpe will chase anything in a petticoat and get it".

Duke of Wellington was one of the greatest military leaders the British Army had to offer

Can't believe I'm discovering this now. Why does the U.K. have keep their good stuff from us?

@HATINTHEKAT The awesome fantastic Brian Cox.

@SyntaxErr00r That costs money. They would have to get uniforms, rifles etc. This isn't a very low budget film, but its not exactly a Hollywood blockbuster either.

Fantastic series, done on a real minimum budget. Sean Bean was perfect for this role, as well as pete postalwaite rip..as sgt hakswell, darren omalley was not my choice of harper, as harper in the book was about six foot four...with red hair and a red moustache....as well hagman and harris where played perfectly..great book which i first read from 1984 I named my son after patrick harper..only think my ex and i ever agreed on.

ah Nursemaid Harper who could want for better!

@lexxboomtown really good books aren't they? I read them again and again throughout my childhood i just could not get enough of the great british hero sharpe. Even though i m french lol.

@coaubry as unsuitable the music is to this series...i think it's rather good and to me- it simply says 'Sharpe'

Arthur Wellesly actually had a notorious intolerance for incompetent officers, and by the end of the Penninsular War his forces were easily the most battle-harded and experienced forces in the entire British Army. War has a really simple way of dealing with incompetent officers you see: it kills them.

originally Paul McGann was supposed to play sharpe but got injured on the fourth day of filming sharpes rifles Bean was an emergency replacement, which ended being a bit of providence both for the series and bean

that sexual tension between Welles and Hogan...