There's a lot of soldiering packed into five and a half minutes. - Sticking around despite not being required to. - Thinking about a nice goose feather bed. - Picking off the fops from a distance. - Leaving the best shot in the brigade to provide overwatch. - Keeping yer feet. - Enduring the pain. - Not dirtying yer sword. Soldiering.
One thing I like about this series is that during battles, etc. that happened in the cold of a late fall or winter, or even early spring, they filmed in the cold and you actually see the breath of the actors and the animals .vs. doing this in a warm studio and having fake snow! Adds realism to the setting that so many films/videos lack!!!
Blocking an axe with your bare hands, that's soldiering Pretending to be bandits while wearing your military uniform under your cloak? That's not soldiering
Wickham (presuming he's the same George Wickham from Pride and Prejudice) isn't a noble, scarcely even a gentleman. He's the son of Mr D'Arcy's late father's steward.
there were some prime casting choices made in the sharpe series. douglas henshall was as perfect for captain wickham as michael cochran was for henry simmerson. great actors who created impressively detestable villains.
I am utterly convinced that it’s no coincidence that Captain Wickham’s first name is George. I think this is someone partially writing out the Pride and Prejudice fan fic about what happened to George Wickham after the events of the novel.
It's not so much brute force as it is that structured fights with strict rules don't prepare you for combat. They might enhance your blade skills, but on the field there are no rules. As soon as you add rules to a fight, it isn't combat anymore. It's sport.
I think a fitting end to Wickham's speech about fighting Sharpe and Harper "together, separately, I'll beat you either way" would have been" BANG! "Got 'im," smirked Hagman.
We should all have friends as loyal as Pat Harper and Dan Hagman! Also, I have the same sword as Richard Sharpe carries in my collection, a 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Trooper's Sword, and there is no way a man his size was ever going to fence like that with one. It weighs at least 4lbs, and the weight is about a foot out from your wrist.
@MilitaryBronyforlife I was taught to block an opponent's _arm_, unless I had something to block an edged weapon. Harper putting aside his volley rifle (perfectly good as a club/parrying defence) seems such a rookie action after all his years of experience.
@MilitaryBronyforlife probably been fighting in the street since they were kids, hand to had stuff nothing new for the ranks.. really it wasn't till maybe WW1, (using a spade to clear our trenches, etc etc), and the SAS in WW2 did hand to hand stuff become a big part of the sylabus.. would be interesting to see what British soldiers were taught back then.. It's almost like learning to hit long in golf, but never working on your putts.. strange times..
Problem that can come with martial arts is that some people train to get points rather than learn how to fight. Take away glittering halls, flat clean floors, and an opponent that fights past the usual pause points and someone considered highly skilled falls quickly.
Well, nothing wrong with that as long as you see it as a sport. In a "street fight", injuries to your opponent are to be expected. In sport, you try to avoid them. Which is completly fine, as long as you are aware of the difference.
A Stubborn Yorkshireman, An Astute Irishman and A Cheshire Poacher. The Winning Team. The Thinker, The Sensible, and the Calm. I love this scene. I'm a Cheshire Lad by the way . :) and "I won't dirty my sword" Says it all.
@@dogestranding5047 I mean it’s virtually impossible now. Especially in the western world seeing as all civilised nations in the west dropped the death penalty
Meh. Letting the guilty waste the taxpayers' money on cushy life sentances rather than rid society of them at the end of a rope: That's not LawEnforcing.
@@jimtaylor294 Life without parole/whole life tariff is an infinitely worse situation than execution. With execution you leave the world and the pain you caused behind it, while the people who suffered have to life with that pain and suffering for the rest of their lives. No, better to let them rot behind bars knowing they'll never be free, they'll have to grow old living with what they have done for the rest of their lives, and they'll never again enjoy the simple pleasures of going for a walk on a sunny day, going to the cinema to watch a movie, have a few drinks with friends, they'll have none of that. That to me, is infinitely worse than execution. Put it this way, if someone did something awful to someone in my family that warrants the death penalty or life without parole, I'm wanting that scumbag to stay behind bars and suffer for the rest of their lives. Why should they take the easy way out and be executed. If I'm suffering due to what that person did, then I want THEM to suffer for the rest of their lives. It won't end my suffering, but it'd make it a lot easier to cope with knowing that the perpetrator is locked up for the rest of their lives and have to live with what they did.
He definitely is a coward, only confident when surrounded by his own men or murdering innocents. The minute Sharpe gets the upper hand on him in their fight he loses composure and swings wildly, letting himself get disarmed.
Saw the prettified 'Duel-Lite' at the dance. Came looking for the rematch. Satisfying as far as it goes, though I feel I must admit to being disappointed he doesn't visit a kick in the balls upon the blackguard.
Difference between the standard pompous officers Sharpe comes across is they know how to fight. But the pompous Yeoman treats a life or death fight as if it's a dueling club. Probably the only time Richard has missed being surrounded by snobs in the army
Watching Sharpe get revenge on the woman beater is off the charts satisfying. But i bet Sharpe was thinking like Father Curtis "May god forgive me, I wish it had lasted longer....."
That idiotic fop thought himself invincible because he was a master of fencing. But in the fencing salle, a touch is ONLY a touch. And fighting in earnest with a sword is very different. Reminds me a bit of the movie Rob Roy. The villain was a far superior fencer to the protagonist. But as soon as Roy DID get a hit in, he finished the fight---and his opponent.
Wickham duelling Sharpe 🤺 hit to the shoulder. One point to me. Sharpe grabs Wickhams sword and tosses it away pushing his own blade to Wickhams throat. Wickham 😳
Wait... do you think this is *the* George Wickham... So Sharpe and Pride and Prejudice are in the same literary universe??? Will we see Liz and Fitz Darcy grace the South Essex at some point?
not really, that is the main boiler portion they pushed off the rest would have been in the crates for assembly. looks like it was a similar design to the scotch marine style.
it was a fair mock up of the boiler at least, the real thing would have been way to heavy to just tip over. it has to be made solid enough to resist high pressure of the steam. at least 3/4 inch i would guess
@@g3heathen209 for older models not so much. many of the earliest designs were not much more than what we would call a hot water tank. that said. your probably not wrong on the thickness range. modern boilers are close to that but again they operate at far higher pressures than was used in the 1800's. the main determinate would be the ability to transport. too heavy and it is worthless because the wagons of the day have a very hard limit to what they can carry (this predates the rail roads so it's all horse and wagon or boat)
@@g3heathen209 To be honest they did not have a budge, and like you said, it is alright. I just laughed because it looked like a water tank more than a boiler, but at the end day, a boiler is just a tank with a fire compartment.
@@kertagin1 They did their best, but from what I saw it was an aluminium water tank with a spout. But I am being pedantic, you take Sharpe for what it is, good stories on a budget.
Should have just run him through with the law on his side. Now he's arrested he can weasel his way out of trouble!! Most well connected rich people could back then!!
Was this the first and only sword duel sharpe actually one straight up? Usually he gets beat in the dual and the victor is too cocky and sharpe comes up with some last ditch effort and wins.
God damn, I wish I had served under someone with the balls and honor of Sharpe. Instead I got to watch civilians die because someone in DC said to wait and do nothing.
Love Sharpe progs but as with many punch up fights since the dawn of TV, I would love to know why they put those weird noises so say made by punching. I seen a few and threw a few bit never have I heard that noise.
The Yeoman extra yelling "OW!" when Sharpe kicked him in the butt was hilarious.
Yeah. Most-welcome comedic relief. 🙂
omg Orangefan?! That is so random! Love your War Thunder content; I've followed it for a few years now!
Didn't feel out of place or forced either.
02:55
Sean bean definitely actually hit him there hahaha
There's a lot of soldiering packed into five and a half minutes.
- Sticking around despite not being required to.
- Thinking about a nice goose feather bed.
- Picking off the fops from a distance.
- Leaving the best shot in the brigade to provide overwatch.
- Keeping yer feet.
- Enduring the pain.
- Not dirtying yer sword.
Soldiering.
We're reaching levels of soldiering per minute previously never though possible
Now thats industrializationing
@@johnfaustus9404 - He just tries to keep up with the steam engines.
@@MrAnticlimate Steam Engines ?!!!! In Africa ??!!!!
If only there had been a well nearby.
Your uniform can be dirty, but never your weapon.
"His men attacked the coach" ..................."Your men still have the robbery masks around their necks you plonker"
Lol exacty
Plonker? I love how it sounds.
@@Briselance casual British slang meaning idiot.
Always thought just my local area used that word hahah, good to see we’re not the only ones
Always love THOSE moments:
"MERCY, Sir!"
"Is that what you gave your helpless victims?"
"No more, Optimus Prime! Grant me mercy, I beg of you!"
"You, who are without mercy, now plead for it?"
That was not a steam engine. It was a huge vat of Henderson's relish, and that made Sharpe very angry.
I think you just won at the internet, the Sheffield division at the very least
No wonder - we love a drop of Hendo's!
I was taking a swig of water when I read that, you bastard!
There were no tea bags in the boiling water.
I thought it was a container filled with Yorkshire tea.
"Live with the pain."
The very essence of what a soldier do.
One thing I like about this series is that during battles, etc. that happened in the cold of a late fall or winter, or even early spring, they filmed in the cold and you actually see the breath of the actors and the animals .vs. doing this in a warm studio and having fake snow!
Adds realism to the setting that so many films/videos lack!!!
A lot cheaper, too ;)
They filmed the series in Ukraine. @@MegaSuperCritic
Ths ep was filmed in England.
Blocking an axe with your bare hands, that's soldiering
Pretending to be bandits while wearing your military uniform under your cloak? That's not soldiering
the smug little smile from Wickham after Sharpe says "Let him hang." is a great representation of just how untouchable these nobles think they are
I think he was trying to put a brave face on it.
Upper class people were indeed hung, the difference being was they were offered a silk rope..
@@mjspice100hanged… Hung people impress those with the size of their genitalia
@@mjspice100 a silk rope?
Wickham (presuming he's the same George Wickham from Pride and Prejudice) isn't a noble, scarcely even a gentleman. He's the son of Mr D'Arcy's late father's steward.
And how Sharpe has more honour.
there were some prime casting choices made in the sharpe series. douglas henshall was as perfect for captain wickham as michael cochran was for henry simmerson. great actors who created impressively detestable villains.
Wickham was especially detestible because he had charm, carisma, courage and intelligence but chose to squander them for mere coin.
I am utterly convinced that it’s no coincidence that Captain Wickham’s first name is George. I think this is someone partially writing out the Pride and Prejudice fan fic about what happened to George Wickham after the events of the novel.
Been heavily outnumbered but winning the engagement anyway.
That's soldiering.
Do you mean Bean heavily outnumbered but winning the engagement anyway.
That's punning.
I like to imagine that Sharp wasn't seeing Wickham's men attacking Spanish peasants, he was seeing Uruk-hai chasing Merry and Pippin.
brainflash1 Exactly lol
As someone who watched (and read) Sharpe before seeing LOTR I see it the other way
I think mary poppins had something to do with it.
Not Spanish peasants. This is in England
@@Ymtemidatie What the FUCK!?!
"Murderous foot pads" got to remember that one
No beating Sharpe when there's no rules.
Dave Moore now thats soldiering
All's fair when the wolves come howling.
As Sharpe himself once said "We've played by your rules. Now we'll play by mine."
“I’ve a message for you, a warning about your steam engine”
“Watt”?
Funny (or what)!
That's enough to make me blow my stack.
I'm building up a fine head of steam here with such remarks.
Groan...
Watt!? I'm sure that Hertz!
@Paul Reeves Feck off Big Nose! You miserable bugger.👃🏻😫
I won't dirty my sword...
Possibly the most badass thing I've heard in a long time!
Best moment
"Better load it first"!
It is so much Sharpe like!
loading it first before shooting - that's soldiering. :P
@@catriona_drummond The very basics of soldiering. "You can't shoot a gun with no bullets."
The amount of times Sharpe gets cut on that side of his face and it just re heals....the man is immortal 😂😂
AND HE ALWAYS STAYS PRETTY😍
He was seriously miscast in LOTR. He should have been Strider
Not truly immortal, he just passes the death to a different Sean Bean character.
Thats knocked the smugness off Wickhams face. Second lesson Mr Wickham, live with the pain, you've got plenty coming.
Not too much pain... long's they 'ang him propahly.
So, the Yeomanry are the ones attacking the steam engines. That's ripe. Don't you think that's ripe?
Very Ripe.
It’s certainly not soldiering
Achievement Earned:
*Ripe as a Good Banana*
Whilst wearing their uniforms. Definitely ripe, sir.
That's ripening.
Wickham's dancing and flickering is inferior to Sharpe's brute force.
It's not just strength, Wicky is fighting like it's a fencing competition, Sharpe is fighting like it's a fight
It's not brute force. Sharpe's a decent fencer who, unfortunately for Wickham, could actually fight.
@@Th0ughtf0rce Sounds like your saying he has some brute force along with the fencing skills.
Well, now I cannot take out of my mind a parallel between Sharpe/Wickham and Rob Roy McGregor/Archie Cunningham.
It's not so much brute force as it is that structured fights with strict rules don't prepare you for combat. They might enhance your blade skills, but on the field there are no rules. As soon as you add rules to a fight, it isn't combat anymore. It's sport.
This is my favourite musical sequence in the whole of Sharpe aside from the main theme. Those flutes herald a serious asskicking!
That bastard who beat up Sally got off WAY too easily
I think a fitting end to Wickham's speech about fighting Sharpe and Harper "together, separately, I'll beat you either way" would have been"
BANG! "Got 'im," smirked Hagman.
That piece of music at 0:28 is just so amazing! I wonder, is there a longer version to it?
I don't suppose you've had any luck finding it?
@@joe5922 unfortunately not
The lack of Sharpe's signature kick to the balls or lower body during his duel has me somewhat confused...
He should have shot him in the ass as he walked away.
guess he was playing by the "proper" officer rules instead of his usual ones
well, he did kick that man hard in the arse.
"OW!" 😂
I love the way Hagman says ‘or a mutton chop’
2:57 something about that "ow!" Makes me laugh so much
🤣
he realized just cause he’s good at fencing doesn’t mean he was good with a sword😂
I told you in the first video, there's a big difference between a gentleman's duel at a party and a fight in the field. Wickham never stood a chance.
We should all have friends as loyal as Pat Harper and Dan Hagman!
Also, I have the same sword as Richard Sharpe carries in my collection, a 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Trooper's Sword, and there is no way a man his size was ever going to fence like that with one. It weighs at least 4lbs, and the weight is about a foot out from your wrist.
I have the 1796 light cavalry saber, and that thing is a meat cleaver as well. In short, a real soldier's weapon.
This is actually my favourite Sharpe scene especially when Sharpe outclasses Wickham
Nah, Fr Curtis owning Simmerson is legendary.
Sharpe must have more scars then Edward Scissorhands
Yes, mostly due to the flogging he got from Hakeswill, Obidiah.
Harper... 😬 CATCHES & BLOCKS a swinging hatchet bare-handed? If he were still a soldier, would that be soldiering?
@MilitaryBronyforlife I was taught to block an opponent's _arm_, unless I had something to block an edged weapon. Harper putting aside his volley rifle (perfectly good as a club/parrying defence) seems such a rookie action after all his years of experience.
@MilitaryBronyforlife probably been fighting in the street since they were kids, hand to had stuff nothing new for the ranks.. really it wasn't till maybe WW1, (using a spade to clear our trenches, etc etc), and the SAS in WW2 did hand to hand stuff become a big part of the sylabus.. would be interesting to see what British soldiers were taught back then.. It's almost like learning to hit long in golf, but never working on your putts.. strange times..
I watched it several times - Harper catches both hatchet strikes with his rifle barrel. He just drops it after parrying the second axe.
Problem that can come with martial arts is that some people train to get points rather than learn how to fight. Take away glittering halls, flat clean floors, and an opponent that fights past the usual pause points and someone considered highly skilled falls quickly.
Well, nothing wrong with that as long as you see it as a sport. In a "street fight", injuries to your opponent are to be expected. In sport, you try to avoid them. Which is completly fine, as long as you are aware of the difference.
This scene is great, it more than makes up for Sharpe's defeat earlier in the episode.
Th
Dirt your sword, Sir.
Justice is non-existent in the real world.....
Oh, it is. It is.
A Stubborn Yorkshireman, An Astute Irishman and A Cheshire Poacher. The Winning Team. The Thinker, The Sensible, and the Calm. I love this scene. I'm a Cheshire Lad by the way . :) and "I won't dirty my sword" Says it all.
Love the music in this scene!!
Helping your major despite the chance of execution now that’s soldiering
Always been.
Legendary series
Courage boys is 1 to 10,
But we’ll all return gentlemen,
Gentlemen as well as they,
And over the hills and far away
saad khan over the hills and over the main
To flanders, portugal, and spain
The king commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away
Dod o my one is universal and timeless
Dod o i have been tricked.
I have been deceived.
And I have been QUITE POSSIBLY
bamboozled
A goose-feather bed, now that's bedding!
It's pretty terrifying to think that you could've been hanged back then even if you were completely innocent
Definitely more common then than now. Especially with people sympathizing more with criminals than with law enforcement.
@@dogestranding5047 I mean it’s virtually impossible now. Especially in the western world seeing as all civilised nations in the west dropped the death penalty
Meh. Letting the guilty waste the taxpayers' money on cushy life sentances rather than rid society of them at the end of a rope: That's not LawEnforcing.
@@dogestranding5047 I mean, law enforcement has done everything in its power to lose that sympathy.
@@jimtaylor294 Life without parole/whole life tariff is an infinitely worse situation than execution. With execution you leave the world and the pain you caused behind it, while the people who suffered have to life with that pain and suffering for the rest of their lives.
No, better to let them rot behind bars knowing they'll never be free, they'll have to grow old living with what they have done for the rest of their lives, and they'll never again enjoy the simple pleasures of going for a walk on a sunny day, going to the cinema to watch a movie, have a few drinks with friends, they'll have none of that. That to me, is infinitely worse than execution.
Put it this way, if someone did something awful to someone in my family that warrants the death penalty or life without parole, I'm wanting that scumbag to stay behind bars and suffer for the rest of their lives. Why should they take the easy way out and be executed. If I'm suffering due to what that person did, then I want THEM to suffer for the rest of their lives. It won't end my suffering, but it'd make it a lot easier to cope with knowing that the perpetrator is locked up for the rest of their lives and have to live with what they did.
"I wouldn't dirty my sword."
"But you already did. This cut on my cheek. It was from your swor-"
**sharpe stabs him**
Wickham seriously why are you smiling? your not getting out of this one.
@@jr5925 Maybe it comes off as more smug to me like he thinks he'll get out of it with his rich friend help
@@jr5925 True he is an interesting villain.
He definitely is a coward, only confident when surrounded by his own men or murdering innocents. The minute Sharpe gets the upper hand on him in their fight he loses composure and swings wildly, letting himself get disarmed.
I feel like out of all the villains throughout the Sharpe series, for me, Wickham was the most satisfying to see Richard take down.
Achievement Earned:
*Conspiracy Cracked!!*
This is what happens when you write Pride and Prejudice fan fiction into the Sharpe universe. We finally give Wickham the ending he deserves.
I do love that he's just as much of a slimy toerag here as well.
"I won't dirty my sword". That's real soldiering.
"I won't dirty my sword." But he dirties his scabbard by sheathing his sword without first cleaning it.
Stabbed in the arm - and dealing with the pain... Now that's soldiering!
Saw the prettified 'Duel-Lite' at the dance. Came looking for the rematch.
Satisfying as far as it goes, though I feel I must admit to being disappointed he doesn't visit a kick in the balls upon the blackguard.
Together, Separate, I can take these RUclips Comments Anytime ....... :-)
I've never seen all of Sharpe, only the clips. But, I am convinced there are 9,347 episodes.
Sharpes drip in the coat with his uniform undernesth is unmatched
That poor bastard at 2:28 was so scared that his right sideburn was peeling off.
what is the song in 2:32
anybody has an idea or a link
A goose feather bed. That's pampering!
Any of the comments on any Sharpe videos...
...Now that's soldierly commentary
Bruh we need to get back to soldiering
Harper catching a hatchet barehanded...if that's not soldiering, I don't know what is.
00:50
"I'm not in the army now."
Then why are you still wearing your uniform?
Ah yes some fine sharping and Harpering right there
Beating the man who beat the woman that kinda raised you .
Now that’s soldiering
"I won't dirty my sword"
But... You already did when you cut his cheek.....
Sharpe does more fighting than Russell Crowe
does anyone know the music at 1:35?
Phillipa Eilhart's voice actress at the start :D
That's not Philippa Eilhart's voice actress.
Difference between the standard pompous officers Sharpe comes across is they know how to fight. But the pompous Yeoman treats a life or death fight as if it's a dueling club. Probably the only time Richard has missed being surrounded by snobs in the army
what episode was this?
3:30 *"You can see what he's done to our colleagues!"*
Gentlemen,
There’s a big difference between being good at fencing and being good at soldiering. A distinction that sharpe teaches to
Odious got Wickham above.
pls upscale hd sharpe
"What about it?"
Now that's questioning.
Punching a man's sideburns right off his cheeks? Now that's soldiering!
Watching Sharpe get revenge on the woman beater is off the charts satisfying.
But i bet Sharpe was thinking like Father Curtis "May god forgive me, I wish it had lasted longer....."
That idiotic fop thought himself invincible because he was a master of fencing. But in the fencing salle, a touch is ONLY a touch. And fighting in earnest with a sword is very different. Reminds me a bit of the movie Rob Roy. The villain was a far superior fencer to the protagonist. But as soon as Roy DID get a hit in, he finished the fight---and his opponent.
Fightning an cocky prick for attacking civilians? Now that's soldiering!
God Sean Bean in that trench coat is a genuinely terrifying sight.
Remember: Death by the sword was an honorable death. Hanging was basically the lowest form of death sentence you could get
Wickham duelling Sharpe
🤺 hit to the shoulder. One point to me.
Sharpe grabs Wickhams sword and tosses it away pushing his own blade to Wickhams throat.
Wickham 😳
Wickham never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Oh, fuck, I’m in the wrong comments section.
can't wait to see the hanging
What episode/film of sharpe is this from?
Sharpe's Justice.
@@cosmicwartoad2587 oh, thought I had seen that one, but maybe not as I don’t remember the scene
I was worried for a moment there.
Wait... do you think this is *the* George Wickham...
So Sharpe and Pride and Prejudice are in the same literary universe??? Will we see Liz and Fitz Darcy grace the South Essex at some point?
Protecting the weak and slaying evil now that’s Son of gondoring
Keeping the family tradition alive
That is a strange steam engine.
not really, that is the main boiler portion they pushed off the rest would have been in the crates for assembly. looks like it was a similar design to the scotch marine style.
it was a fair mock up of the boiler at least, the real thing would have been way to heavy to just tip over. it has to be made solid enough to resist high pressure of the steam. at least 3/4 inch i would guess
@@g3heathen209 for older models not so much. many of the earliest designs were not much more than what we would call a hot water tank. that said. your probably not wrong on the thickness range. modern boilers are close to that but again they operate at far higher pressures than was used in the 1800's.
the main determinate would be the ability to transport. too heavy and it is worthless because the wagons of the day have a very hard limit to what they can carry (this predates the rail roads so it's all horse and wagon or boat)
@@g3heathen209 To be honest they did not have a budge, and like you said, it is alright. I just laughed because it looked like a water tank more than a boiler, but at the end day, a boiler is just a tank with a fire compartment.
@@kertagin1 They did their best, but from what I saw it was an aluminium water tank with a spout. But I am being pedantic, you take Sharpe for what it is, good stories on a budget.
Soldiering?
That's soldiering.
the boiler they pushed off the wagon looks like its a wagon type boiler thankfully Sharp stopped them from doing damage to the steam engine itself
Should have just run him through with the law on his side. Now he's arrested he can weasel his way out of trouble!! Most well connected rich people could back then!!
Proper soldiering
Was this the first and only sword duel sharpe actually one straight up? Usually he gets beat in the dual and the victor is too cocky and sharpe comes up with some last ditch effort and wins.
please take note of who stayed back and kept sniping if there is any question of who's the deadliest shot of the chosen men
Wickham should be glad that Sharpe wasn't in rampage mode during this duel, otherwise Sharpe would have severed his arm off.
22 soldiers have a dirty sword
God damn, I wish I had served under someone with the balls and honor of Sharpe. Instead I got to watch civilians die because someone in DC said to wait and do nothing.
Probably a politician with no experience
Amazing the amount of flood lighting they had back then
Love Sharpe progs but as with many punch up fights since the dawn of TV, I would love to know why they put those weird noises so say made by punching. I seen a few and threw a few bit never have I heard that noise.