He also deserves the death penalty.

I started dying when he said that 😭

@@ticcker6815 So did the Prince of Orange

@@BigArmBoss this needs big upvotes hahaha

I loved it in the book when Sharpe keeps saying what a good shot it was, and when he's told the Young Frog was hit in the shoulder not the belly Harper takes the mickey about it being such a great shot.

I love how he encourages them to try again lol

Only - that is the thing that not only loses battles but gets people killed by the thousands. If Wellington really didn't mind men running from the battlefield, he would have lost every battle he ever participated in. To keep men from running is like 80% of the job.

@@abcdef-cs1jj except he really said it

@@abcdef-cs1jj Back in the day, battles were more like midday events. If a regiment broke rank and fled, a good chunk of the time that meant most of them would survive to fight the next day. The only time you wouldn't want your men to run is if you're holding onto a very specific position. Wellington understands that it's better to lose a few fields one day so you can push the enemy back the next day. Warfare during the Napoleonic Era was a bit more laid back than it is these days.

Top comment. Swift and Bold

@@ifv2089 It was not uncommon for officers to command other country's soldiers. For example Prince Willem Frederik (Later King of the Netherlands.) was with the Austrians in the Fifth Coalition.

"Let them wear the jackets that mean so much to them"

And so is his desendant. Our former PM David Cameron.

@@TheCrusader1000 Their related?

@@ApeX-pj4mq Yes. He's a Toff.

Plagiarism! That was Napoleon’s insult to Talleyrand

Well, I now have a new insult for snobby rich people...

Indeed. You see, wearing a large and well visible hat, might get a confident man with a gun to think. What - he thinks - would happen if I use my gun to shoot a little at that guy with that large hat. He ought to be someone important. So making a hole in him, might change things in favor for me. Which is true especially in wartimes. And purely coincidental, wars tend to have a big surplus on men, confidence AND guns. Even Sharpe couldn't resist. It's just human nature you see. And that's why we don't have such large hats anymore. It's just too damn dangerous...

A Prince raised in Englandand educated there. Did he go to Eton I wonder.

What is hat but head persevering?

The Battle of Haterloo.

The trick is to get ballistic weave and a battered fedora early on.

I suggest you rewatch "The Martian"

He was in the movie Troy and survived through the whole movie.

@@aceman67 His character's career was killed pretty spectacularly, which was the closest thing to an actual death of any character in that movie.

He's doing ok in Snowpiercer but he will probably end up dead.

All are his character deaths are making up for all the times Sharpe should have died.

"...a sort of fighting naturalist"

@@wakeoftheflood2 M&C is the best movie

Name me after something prickly that's hard to eradicate.

I couldn't believe it when I realised it was him :D

Omg no way!

read the books, he really does start off as nobody

@@jr5925 good meme gg

as he says in the Irish brigade one, a bad officer is better off dead

@@jr5925 Fighting off thousands of French soldiers with all the extras from Sharpe successfully. Now that's soldiering.

@@jr5925 Had us in the first half, ngl.

British humor is so very sardonic. I love it.

The series made Prince William of Orange seemed like an complete idiot and military amateur. In reality, his multinational corp of Dutch and Belgian as well as the British contingent and the German contingent of the King's Legion, a unit of German troops from German principality such as Hannover under British command, were critical militarially as well as politically. Yes, the tv series might him and as unit look like idiots.

A "Pythonesque" exchange😂

If the French had known the measure of the Prince, they would have fired everywhere else, though, no?

Hugh Fraser played Wellington very well. He said that line so well it was hilarious 😂😂

The funny thing is Harper wouldn't know them. They fought in Eastern Europe mostly. The Iberian campaign saw the Young Guard and most of Napoleon's secondary units.

I don't know about their entire lives. The revolution only got going in 1789, 29 years before Waterloo, and you had to be at least 35 to join in the old gaurd

Nope, sorry. By this time they were mostly Dutch recruits as all of the Old Guard and the New Guard had all been killed or convalesced over the course of 15 years attrition.

That's soldiering!

It’s not a documentary, it’s a swashbuckling period drama starring Sean Bean. I also don’t think that Prince of Orange was shot by his own officer because he was an incompetent fop, William was beloved and admired for his tempered heart and wisdom.

A most conveniently timed explosion. Saved the censors from having to bleep it.

It was so good that the actor playing the Prince of Orange almost broke character. He stops himself from bursting out laughing at 3:55

@@JohnFreedman0 Indeed. His flippant smirk actually helps.

@@JohnFreedman0 that's mr. jennifer connelly, paul bettany.

and tea

History is boring and full of nuance.

@@Mat-eq8mkwrong

​@@auzawandilaz6971it's subjective

​@@Mat-eq8mkWrong... in many ways, history is more interesting, because we are dealing with real people and real consequences. Simple stories may please simple minds, but the reality is often complex. The British and their allies did not succeed through blind luck. They very much did value competence and promoted officers up from the ranks when apprropriate. Oh, and the Prince of Orange was very well liked, his good nature being proverbial. Not being the most rugged of physical specimens, his nickname was "Slender Billy" It's a poor scriptwriter who has to lie about people in order to make his characters interesting.

It's terrible on every way.

The Duke of Wellington said in the opening scene that the Prince William of Orange asked for experienced officers that can help his inexperienced army. He said he gave them Sharpe and that other English officer that I can't remembered his name. Yes, the Prince did have a experienced officer as his military advice. He is just like Sharpe, an experienced military officer who personally hated serving under his aristocrats, but it is a job that pays well. Yes, we have these same types of jobs today where retired military officers would be hired as military advisors to a foreign army. Not any different that our countries sent retired military officers to help allied armies. Some of them are current military officers. You will see the same thing later on in Japan. Today, we would have companies like Blackwater or in the case of the Russian Wegner group, directly involved in the conflict.

@Proli even though the 95th wore a Hannoverian uniform...

What does high cockolorum mean?

It looks like it's in line with his character. He's arrogantly laughing at the idea but knows it's true.

@@raimundotorres44 silliness I suppose.

@@LoudaroundLincoln thanks

@@raimundotorres44 schmoozing with other elite, in this context it fits well because the Price of Orange is far removed from the vagaries of war while men around him suffer. He is basically immune to everything on account of being royalty. So he gets to go back and make "high cockalarum" while being unaffected by orders he impugns.

Just like most people think Napoleon directly lead men into battle. Yes, it was his Corp commanders like Ney that were directly involved in battle.

@@bermanmo6237 well during this time Napoleon was at Ligny

@@bermanmo6237 Well, Napoleon didnt lead charges, but he often put himself into the danger zone, commanding batteries aiming cannons etc.

He was seen in that area the following day (the 17th), glimpsed by the British rearguards as the Allies were pulling back to Waterloo.

@@bermanmo6237 Actually, there were a few times Napoleon was in direct command of his entire army. In his early years, and later at times when his troop numbers were low. He always won at such times.

You are a man of vision.........

Vision...

I thought I recognized him!

DOGGETT!

Hilarious.

Kipling would say the same. It's tommy this and Tommy that , Tommy move behind, But it is a thin line of heros ....

@@mikehenthorn1778 .... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! " But it's " Saviour of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot; _Nothing has changed_

The thing is, the riflemen of the time and the light infantry were trained in a manner not too different from todays grunts. Throw some cammies on them and give them M16's and they'd get on just fine today.

Always been that way when there's a separation of the officer corps and the enlisted corps.

All I got out of it was “Twat”

@@banditothedorito7082 I think it was "royal twat". Funny that you can better hear the second part, since in Britain you can say twat on telly, but never "royal twat", cause the queen would not be amused.

A combination of lip reading and reviewing the script gave me the quote. With a two finger salute you say ‘F*** y*u your Royal High Twat’

​@@ciamciaramcia99the queen is dead

What he actually said is “F*@# you, your Royal High Tw@t!”

Russel crowe was badass

The same goes for the Prussians...

The thing is, when you charge the facts that much, it doesn't even look like you're trying to make them look bad. It just becomes obvious that it was a fictional portrayal, meant to represent what SOME nobles/ princes were like, but not necessarily trying to make the Dutch or Prince William look bad. The author may have chosen the Dutch precisely because there is no significant racial or nationalist tensions between the British and the Dutch currently. He clearly wasn't trying to portray any particular country or ethnic group badly or anything like that. There are a wide variety of good, bad, and mediocre officers from all of the countries which were most often represented in these stories (namely British, French, and Spanish).

I think part of it is a running theme that we see while following Sharpe's story from sergeant all the way up to lieutenant colonel, that theme being how those in power really don't have a clue what they are doing. Commissions were bought, not earned. We saw it time and again that it was the non-commissioned officers, those who had fought their way up the chain of command, that were the most successful leaders.

@@kirastephenson7510 an infantryman's boon - useless officers leading the enemy.. an infantryman's doom - your own officers are useless

@@kirastephenson7510 & ​ @Deus Ex Machina, that's also the reason why the Brittish failed so bad in the First Boer War. Noblemen with no military expertise and a lot of arrogance, making a sort of holiday trip to exotic Africa. Going into ambush after ambush by Boers or Zulu's, who knew the terrain and had something to fight for...

@Colin Killian Indeed my good sir

Did you?

It just means you are at a fancy party wearing fancy clothes with all the really good and fancy food and drinks sucking up to rich and important people.

You just did, technically.

@@Diablo_Himself So I did! 😁

Damn, helping the Empire to suppress Talos worshipers, now that's soldiering

The Empire was doing a mighty fine job letting people worship Talos in peace until George Stormcloak came along and got them to come to Skyrim. The Thalmor consider his little revolutionary army an asset!

I remember him from the 80's movie, Biggles. A guilty pleasure movie.

He has a hell of a fine jawline.

He also played Valerius in the miniseries "A.D."

When I first saw that, I thought it was him scoffing / smiling in mockery, as if he found the situation amusing.

I assume it was the "High Cockelorum" that broke him - really quite funny

Just like Aldi and Lidl do for their staff they thrive on loyalty from staff and customers unlike other U.K. supermarkets

HERE WE MAKE PROPER BREWS!

@Nines But his area manager is don't like his approach.

Sharpe would be kind of supervisor you’d want to work for. He’d stand up to the middle management

I worked in Retail for 15 years. Having worked for one the "Big 3" for most of that time I can tell you that a manager, no matter how pally you are with them, they're first loyalty is to the company and not you. One of the first things I was taught at the beginning by older staff - that managers are not your friends.

The depictions are pure fiction, hardly the first historical battle partially shown in the series, nothing new.

Truth? This episode is an embarrassment to the Belgians and Dutch who sacrificed themselves on the battlefield. Certainly for the Prince of Orange who was wounded in the last battle and was won by General Chasse's own initiative. These soldiers and their Dutch commanders saved the English from defeat. There was no Wellington or Sharpe in sight here.🌷

@@ariedijker2911 Like Private Hook was maligned as a criminal but heroic alcoholic in Zulu. The real Hook never had a drink in his life and was a gentleman and a pillar of his community.

@@BaseDeltaZero1972 almost like people shouldn't expect movies to be a wealth of historical fact. almost like they made to be more entertaining than informative.

@@goldenshoggoth2143 Still without the Dutch Quatre Brass would have been lost and the whole battle. Read Wellington's Hidden Heroes. Even the Prince was not the fool portrait here. All is from the diorama made just after the battle by the English. It contains a lot of errors, but still those errors made it in history. Wellington lost the battle of Waterloo, his allies did win it.

This happened in Band of Brothers, too. They need to make Winters seem perfect, so they did the other commanders dirty. It makes for good TV even if it isn’t true.

Exactly. He served as a young ADC to Wellington in the Peninsular War from 1811 - he was no idiot or newbie, he was a seasoned veteran soldier by 1815.

"We're going back" - Hagman's last words to Sharpe.

Ha,ha, absolutely mate! Proper soldering! 😆

He may not have chosen to be given them, but he did choose to keep them as his trusted comrades.

Came here to make the comment - Rebecque probably saved the campaign for the allies at Quatre Bras and the Dutch/Belgium troops fought well.

I appreciate the portrayal very much because it's fucking fictional

. @DaveDexterMusic You may appreciate it, but you should know that it is British propaganda which has been perpetuated from 1815 until now, and Cornwall is the current perpetrator. Side note: It is supposed to be 'historical fiction', which usually inserts fictional characters into actual history (rather than either poorly researched or deliberately misleading facts). Also, he does the same thing in his "history" of the battle, somewhat misleadingly titled: "Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles."

Where the English at Waterloo.

@@patrickporter1864 There were some English at Waterloo, but they were greatly outnumbered by Dutch and German troops

@Kabuki Kitsune he kept ordering his men into line while enemy cavalry were about.. so yeah most of them got massacred.. He did this several times!! Honest he French did us a favour when he was wounded and left the field

Well, the Prince of Orange has had the command of a multinational army corp of British, Belgian, Dutch, and German soldiers. I guess you need some level of competence of keeping it together. I guess you can saw the same for Eisenhower. More of an administrator. He rely on battlefield generals like Patton to do the fighting. Yes, he too was in command of a multinational army. Had to make sure everyone is happy and all the egos in check. Not to mentioned the constant rivalry between Patton and English Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. Not to mentioned dealing with Roosevelt, Churchill, and Charles De Gaulle. Probably enough headache just dealing with these egos. Guess sort of like what Wellington dealt with. You sort of get an impression from the tv character, he rather deal with the British Army only that the Dutch as well as the Allied Army. You also sort of got the impression, he also had the same headache dealing with the Spanish partisans in Spain when they were both fighting Napoleon there.

@@ComradeCommissarYuri this is absolute tosh

@@ComradeCommissarYuri Making it up as you write I see.

@@OneofInfinity. better king than commander they say

@Proli the joke I was making is that he is the same actor that plays Vision in the Marvel movies

Haha, I see what you did there

its complete rubbish, in the real world, the Prince of Orange was a brave and effective commander. You never here Wellington criticising him.

🤦

The actor that played the Prince of Orange, Paul Bethany, is the same guy that played Vision in the marvel movies as well as the Wandavision tv show.

Is that so? Praise the Emperor!

Is that the new Space Marine one? Play WarHammer 40,000 Fire Warrior. Its a much better game.

Orange had been around before. he made mistakes during the 100 days, it is true. his biggest mistake was that people would not forgive him for being bisexual.

@@ilsagutrune2372 Yeah right

@@benisrood you have read somewhere that his being bisexual was not a life long problem politically? He was not great general, but he suffers from a few things.. being bisexual and no being British

If you are talking about the prince of orange he was Dutch not French. The clue is in the name.

@@andrewkirkland1452 I know that and you know that, but that doesn't change the fact that his father the King was called the Old Frog, and his son the Young Frog. That we know the nicknames were ignorant doesn't change them.

I'm sure I read that each episode took 6 months plus to complete out in Ukraine. The conditions, including the basics of food and water were extremely poor and made everyone very sick. In fact, the original Sharpe - Paul McGann broke his leg while playing football with the rest of the cast in Ukraine, causing a young Sean Bean to be chosen to replace him.

I think you may be confusing him for his son William III. That was the king who suffered of mental instability.

@@marfdasko mental stability was not the strongest point in the House or Orange-Nassau. William III was also mental instable and his daughter Wilhelmina talked with "ancesters"

That is not entirely true. The kingship was changed in his time. NL then became a parliamentary democracy. Thorbecke arranged this.

Everyone knows the legend of the Earl of Watermelon, how he slew a dozen French hussars, and in a near suicidal charge, led his guards to capture a battery of French Artillery at Waterloo.

...and as for his sister Princess Peach and her legendary scrap against that giant Gorilla, the less said the better.

sharpes not real mate

@@CrawlTheWall I know that...

@@Emdee5632 "He did get wounded, but not by Sharpe."

You have no clue what a drama is? Kids just get dumber and dumber with each generation.

Even in that movie the Dutch are barely mentioned

Chathem. The English just can't get over this embarrassment.

That’s called character development.

Is there another book? They should definitely do a big budget series. Like game of thrones but obviously ending.

Pretend? The character in Frankenstein was a former rifleman with the 95th who fought under Wellington. Even the Pattern 1796 heavy cavalry saber makes an appearance. There is no way that isn't Sharpe; he is just using a fake name.

Oranje is orange in dutch

Michiel de Ruyter, the English just can't get over this embarrassment.

@Stanly Stud It's about how this series portrays the Prince of Orange as a totally incompetent commander and how viewers who know nothing about this battle get a completely wrong image about him. Was Wellington a good commander? Without the Prince there was no Quatre-Bras and Marshal Ney could have joined Napoleon and defeated the Prussians completely and Wellington had already lost the war by then. The distrust of foreign allied troops nearly cost Wellington the victory. It was the Belgians and Dutch troops who at the last moment rescued the English at La Haye Sainte, by General Chasse who opened the attack here with his own insight, so without command from Wellington who had no confidence in this general, a Dutchman with a French name, and served in France for 5 years. The Prince and General Chasse, by their own initiative, made the most important decisions of this battle without Wellington. The Prince was commanded by Wellington, but the battle took place in the Netherlands. As a result, they were much better informed about the best locations to fight and when. The English soldiers fought hard. As a Dutchman I must say, these soldiers deserved a better not narrow-minded and looking at our time, racist commander.🌷

@Stanly Stud My plumber and installer is Scottish and hard as F and he is the best man in the world, his name Carry Miller. He was the only one who could repair my caravan with an English central heating boiler, which I bought in England. He is my hero. P.s I like bagpipe music a lot and watch the homecoming of scots on you tube. We own a barbershop and I'm as sharp as a fedder's knife.🤣🌷

@@ariedijker2911 I wasnt there so I am not embarrassed at all. So nothing to get over.

@@Pitcairn2 Be glad you weren't there.