IIRC the officer in question was [then] Lieutenant Lawford, the same Colonel Lawford on Wellesley's [Wellington's] staff. Or was it Colonel McCandless?

@@julianmhall it was Lawford

Respectfully, I think he's mostly deciding what to do with the shade. Harris's diction and vocabulary suggest a rich background, and he knows by now that Sharpe came from the ranks. He's pointing out he can read because he's betting Sharpe cannot. Sharpe seems to consider responding to Harris, then says nothing. He has just been underestimated, but he's not going to reveal that yet.

@@kef0205 Spot on, it was blatant disrespect. Same with the reference to the classics (courtier of Bacchus).

@@kef0205 I was curious about that. The way he glared back at the younger soldier, than walked away meant something was up, but I did not know what.

I thought that was a defensive jab back at sharpe who didn't read that well.

@@samsondelighted It was a jab. :)

That is literally not the quote

@@engasal True, but you can bet that Sharpe was thinking that exact thought.

Lol

I remember noticing it and hoping it wouldn't annoy me from watching, every scene seemed to have him recovering from a long run lol, luckily I got over it

@@callithowiseeit5806 Wouldn't be surprised if Sean Bean was getting winded during filming. Playing Sharpe was probably more demanding than any other role he'd had before.

I don't know why, but it seems to fit the intensity of the character.

He is perpetually out of breath

Don’t you mean “That’s mouth breathering!”

Sharpe can read though, but still intimidated

Sharpe: Ow many words Arris? Harris: Over Nine Thousand, sir.

Nice profile picture

@@highstakes1235 but not very well. Sharpe is aware that he is not very good at reading, while this soldier is.

@@davfree9732 huwat 9000!!! sorry lol

Its a wonderful switch to costume realism, with authentic holes, rips, tears, dirt, missing parts Love it

The UNION BERDAN Sharpshooters in the USA CIVIL WAR DRESSED SIMILAR, it was a preview of Army Rangers

I was thinking the same thing. How many movies have we seen where the uniforms were pristine?

@@kev3d That's when Hollywood just doesn't get it.

Aye! Very fancy. Now do up that button or you are on a charge, Momo!

It's funny how often that happens tbh.

He is a bone headed paddy

I have several close freinds that I disliked intensly when we first met. Time always tells.

@@khankrum1 the love of my life and I met each other by having an argument, and my finest friends and I have traded blows. I've never been betrayed by or been loved more by than the people who couldn't stand me in the beginning.

Happens a lot in the military

And he sees more than a bit of himself in there, too.

Nah it’s more that he knows exactly what his life has been since that is also Sharpe’s background. In the books he’s an orphan that joined at 16 (ish doesn’t know his birthday so couldn’t be sure). He might feel bad for him knowing what that life is but more likely he’s seeing himself and reacting to how depressing that list sounds.

I like to think Sharpe's feeling sorry for himself. Each member of his new command is worse than the last: a thief, a poacher, a cad, and finally a waif. Having already formed a low opinion of Harper, he's thoroughly unimpressed by the 'Chosen Men'. "Well, I didn't choose you," he mockingly tells them.

No shit? I gotta sit down and read these sometime.

I was interested in gaunt’s ghosts before. But now I’m intrigued

@@molenat9973 Great series to a point :) Dan Abnett is a good author :)

I mean, the similarities are definetly there. Gaunt may not be "from the ranks", but he and Sharpe are basically the same. Witty, strong, great and brave leaders, annoyed by superior officers and a hand with the ladies

NO SHIT???

Yes we all watched the same video

Could it be because it *is* the military? ;)

It makes me laugh how he just knows that he wants him to shoot the hat instantly without even telling him lol.... bit silly.

@Droxy 56 Any player of a decent military game like ARMA or Eve Online knows friendly fire is an issue...

@@varis2000 friendly fire is an opportunity. Happenstance. Acceptable casualty.

I can see a sadness in sharpes face. As in tongue had the worst hand of life a healthy person could get

Was he into this or even live at this time?

Yeah?

... now that's grandsoning.

'arris

Pretty sure Sharpe had been in the army ever since he was a child, he was a drummer boy in Flanders

He was a school teacher.

@@Sunny-day-therian Harris was, not Sharpe.

@@engasal Aye, 'arris 'as a haitch hon it, right?

I think Paul could of handled the role though. He was very good on Hornblower as a leader of men.

Well at least one of the got into the show with Harper :) I'll murder the pair of yas !

He became William.Bush and Dr Who so all is well

He narrated some Sharpe audiobooks, very well i might add

I didn't know that. They've both played, Andy McNab aswell, small world.

Busy boy, that John Tams. He performed the theme music as well( I’d have to try and look it up, but I seem to recall that he wrote some of the episode-relevant lyrics, too).

@@scotiadragoon5974 Yeah I'm pretty sure he did all of that too, I can't remember exactly when he rewrote this scene but I believe it was in the down time after Paul McGann had been sent home but before Sean Bean arrived.

@Michael Halligan Realistically probably, but it must be remembered that although he's just a chosen man (Lance Corporal) Harper is clearly respected by his officers, while Sharpe a new comer and raised from the ranks isn't any type of complaint would of just been ignored.

@@alittlebitofhistory Paul McGann?

@@sullyb23511 Yes he was originally going to play Sharpe they even filmed several parts of Rifles and Eagle with him if you google Paul McGann Sharpe there are pictures of him in costume, but during a break from filming he broke his leg playing football and filming had to stop. Sean was brought in very quickly to take over and the role changed forever Sharpe is originally from London not Yorkshire that changed in the books because of Sean. The swap is also the reason Gold is so weird (They couldn't use the original script written because of legal issues.) and why Sharpe has it jacket un done for much of the first 2 episodes, It was Tailored to fit Paul not Sean. If you look up the Channel History Hack they have loads of podcasts taking to the cast of Sharpe.

One does not simply let the White walkers through the wall

@@carlwilson5339 ?

You have to be a Pukkah soldier to get into the Greet berets 100 try 3 get in America’s finest and don’t take the piss they are fucking good

@@alundavies8402 Typical American. The Green Jackets have diddly squat to do with the US army dickhead! Oh & just remind me of John Wayne's Service Record again?

mickeydiver17 I thought that it said green berets sorry I didn’t read it properly

Why doesn't he say his first name? I always wondered that.

And medic. Best brown paper and paraffin oil. 😅

Bear in mind how well these men know their rifles. For you it's hard to not have instantaneous fire, for them they all know the day of the baker rifle

"trying to shoot a hat" ? That's easy and almost always successful......

Honestly he barely aims it.

This show was so low-budget that they kept that prop hat with the hole and re-used it in the scene where Sharpe and the men meet Sweet William. (BTW I made that up, but you believed it, and it may well be true.)

Parents sir? I sprang fully grown from a latrine after Christmas dinner!

LOL

@@mr.pavone9719 LOL

@@mr.pavone9719 That was a piss-poor decision!

Me too, but I can't read.

exceltraining people like you are the reason I read the comments! So funny you noticed that! Genius 🤣👏👏👍

@@thebyronicmann8292 cheers..... i dunno why i spot these things !

exceltraining haha glad you did I was giggling my arse off! 🤣👏👏

Now that's what I call horsing around.

Its an army horse sir, of course it can keep the beat.

They had gone through the boer war little over a decade previously Britain should have known better

@@adamhauskins6407 Britain DID know better. It was not Britain's fault the war devolved into a stalemate, but the improvements the British army made as a result of the Boer War stopped an easy German victory as in the Franco Prussian war. The French made similar improvements. The problem was that doctrine had evolved to the point that it was a slugging match because everyone was on a similar level. If you're saying Britain should have not gotten involved for the above reason, thats probably true. But Britain certainly wasnt meat grinding its army. Thats a myth.

@@AtheAetheling I meant the British public. The British army was the best equipped and probably most effective force in 1914 they just didn't have the number that the Germans had

@@adamhauskins6407 ah I see. Yeah very true.

@@adamhauskins6407 They didn't have the leadership capable of adjusting doctrine to the weapons at hand. They were still trying to fight line battles against machine guns.

The fact that he's Irish is irrelevant. None of them "volunteered" out of patriotism: they are there for the regular pay. Life was so hard at the bottom of the social ladder -- whether you were Irish or English -- that risking life and limb in the army seems like a good bargain.

Almost half pennisular army were Irish

"Ah bejebus boys I have der cuckoo" Sgt Masterson, Battle of Barrosa.

@@DieFlabbergast For some it was the only stability they had in their lives like it is now.

@Liverpool 11 I'm sure that the mysore book was written long time after the first sharpe book! So the tv series was a few years older than the book of mysore!

@Liverpool 11 Thought as much only started reading Sharpe after tv series had begun and remember the mysore book being newely published! Was it Sharpe's Tiger or was that another of the Indian ones?

Now that's top watching.

That's a bunch of E-4s sure.

Well, the Chosen Men, as I understand would all be Lance Corporal equivalents, so would that make them E-2 instead? Or am I missing something?

@@eddievhfan1984 in the US army, it is usually, (but not always) expected that you progress to E-3 before you even complete your training. So you arrive at your unit as an E-3. The term "E-4 Mafia" is a running joke in the US military referring to the leadership bottleneck that occurs. Suggesting that of the junior enlisted, the ones who have been in the longest but have not made sergeant yet are the ones who get everything done in the military because they have the experience but are virgin and untouched by the bureaucracy of leadership.

@@madlarkin8 I have been enlightened, sir, thanks.

@@madlarkin8 Don't know what era of US Army you're talking about, but in the 1970s you finished your training as an E-2 (private), and would in less than a year be advanced to E-3 (private first class or PFC). I was then promoted to E-4 (specialist 4th class or "Spec 4"), and then immediately re-assigned to E-4/corporal (the most junior NCO rank - same pay, but different responsibilities) at the prodding of my platoon and first sergeants. Within three years (and after finishing #1 at my class in Primary Non-Commissioned Officer Course, which course I took while a Spec 4 and returned to my unit to find my re-assignment waiting for me) I passed the board and was promoted to E-5/Sergeant. I don't recall exactly, but I may have come out of training as an E-3 because I was credited with a six months of inactive reserve service, due to my entry via the "delayed enlistment" program. (I was signed up six months before reporting for duty/training.) I do remember a lot of E-2s coming out of training with me, and newbies arriving at my units later as E-2s as well.

It's excellent Watch Hornblower as well.

My grandfather "army". My father "army". My brother and me "not bloody likely" but it still rubs off.

they do not allowed war any more it is against health and safety are work rules.

I'm trying to picture Sharpe as a trans ... I just can't get there, so I hope they NEVER remake this show.

CAP198462 Picturing Sean Bean as Sharpe and reading his lines in his voice makes the books rather more enjoyable.

Cutting toast into thin strips and dunking it into soft boiled eggs. That's soldiering

hear hear! a scathing P'shaw indeed

Nameless Entity We're not exactly short of good actors in the UK,can't knight them all...

Fucking Mr. Bean lol

Probably best if he avoids a sword coming anywhere near his neck by royal decree. Didn't work out too well last time it happened.

@@niallreid7664 It got me for a second, I thought he'd somehow mixed up Rowan Atkinson lol

God save Ireland , God save Ireland

Maybe Sharpe hurt himself when he headbutted him.

Maybe (hopefully) someone is trying to garner interest for a reboot? I would love for some one like Netflix to put some a real budget behind a project to do that. Minus any sjw crap of course.

@@krondarr8865 naw, leave it be I say

Well, Sean Bean has Always said he'd love to do more episodes and let's face it, we'd hate it if anyone else played him wouldn't we? They did do some more in the 2000's ( challange and Peril), let's hope this channel gets the word out on this little gem of a show, you never know....

Probably a ressurgence of people wanting wholesome stories again with strong male influences pushing through the algorithms, hopefully that's the case

Pretty much my Irish lineage.

@@Pfsif Irish regiments made the British army and the empire.☘️

@@willobi then they lost it when we left

"Aww missing from there you want SHOOTING... Mr Hagman, 3 rounds please in your own time"

Haha spat me brew out reading that!!

@Sage Brignac Canadian's are trained to the same standards, in the Napoleonic Wars, the British regulars were the only soldiers in the world who trained with live ammunition and who could shoot 1,500 rounds a minute in 4-5 volleys.

@Sage Brignac Sorry have you never heard of Craig Harrison? A 20 year old British identified six insurgents moving along a wall towards British and Afghan soldiers 930 yards away. (850 meters) As soon as he saw one of them wearing heavy clothing with a PKM hiding underneath it, he was given the green light to engage the insurgents. He fired one shot at the insurgent carrying the PKM with heavy clothing. The insurgent and his 5 buddies all vaporized instantly in a massive blast. Turns out the insurgent with the PKM was wearing a suicide vest estimated to have contained 44 lbs (19kg) of high explosives. If that’s not badass enough, with his first shot on the tour of duty, the same sniper killed a Taliban machine-gunner from 1,465 yards. (1340 meters) Source: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/10735666/British-sniper-in-Afghanistan-kills-six-Taliban-with-one-bullet.html

@Sage Brignac Did you know a couple of years ago in 2014 Burundi was preparing to send a peace keeping contingent to the Congo and Somalia yet they knew that their army was not up to scratch and begged for a UN training team to come and train it. On being asked who they would like, they decided to look at the Americans, French, Canadians, Germans and Swedes but it was the British army that they chose to train their army because they said they wanted to be trained by the best, so eleven members of the Royal Irish Regiment were deployed in. What does that tell you about our riflemen? The British are world class.

@Sage Brignac May I also point out the excellent British Expeditionary force in WW1, the average British soldier was able to hit a man-sized target fifteen times a minute, at a range of 300 yards (270 m) with his Lee-Enfield rifle, they were so good that when the Germans first fought them in France they assumed that the British emplacements they were attacking were manned by Machine guns, when in fact the British only had their lee enfield rifles!

@Sage Brignac You do realise that we never even modelled ourselves on the Prussians? The British army was first established after the English civil war in the 1600's known as the new model army, way before the Prussians were even a military power, we never copied them, also it's funny how you mention Prussia yet the same Prussia got embarrassed in the Napoleonic wars while the British army never lost a single battle against Napoleonic France, so who really was more professional XD also you must be kidding yourself if you think the Germans matched the British in 1914, at the Battle of Mons the British numbered only around 80,000 troops and still managed to hold off a large concentration of Germans up to 160,000, the British lost 1,500 men while the Germans suffered over 5,000 casualties, whenever they "matched us" they always had superior numbers unlike the British.

Harris said "a courtier to my lord Bacchus," which would likely mean he was a guy who liked to party, as Bacchus was the god of wine and revelry in ancient Greece and Rome. Harris's problem was that he never had the money to actually pay for his revelries. Hence being an "unremitting debtor," and he escaped his debts by joining the army. As far as I'm aware, Harris's backstory in the novels isn't explained in any greater detail than it is here.

In the novels, he was a schoolmaster from Lichfield who slept around, drank a lot and ran up huge debts gambling on "cards and bones" (bones, being another name for dice). He joined the army to escape from people he owed money to, and several angry husbands.