Brining on John Tams as Daniel Hageman was a stroke of casting brilliance. Having him to provide period songs on the spot made the show so much better.
Don't wanna be ''that guy'' but their method is pretty weird, you wouldn't want that with a rifle as in order for the rifling to work the bullet has to sit in there tight, actual info from the period tells us they used cartridges but with probably pre patched balls, which would have taken longer to reload than a regular musket even with a ramrod, and the bullet simply doesn't have enough weight to just fall down for reasons I already mentioned. Also there's reason you're supposed to grip the ramrod with your fingers, because if the musket goes off and it can, it won't blow off your entire hand, now imagine sticking your entire head in front of the muzzle just after you primed and put it to half cock, and poured a bunch of powder down the barrel, that's just an accidental suicide waiting to happen.
@@TheThingInMySink rank and file men of this period would have been using smoothbore muskets; knocking the buttstock on the ground twice significantly sped up reloading and sufficiently rammed the ball down; it was a noted technique of the British in fact--it made their reloads abnormally fast! Now Sharpe's men would historically have been using rifled guns, i.e. rifles, and for that the ramrod *is* required... but they'd have had to learn the smoothbore techniques to earn the rifles!
@@TheThingInMySink additionally, the tactic was for the kneeling men/standing men to both fire, and then rotate back to reload--not to reload in place! In this way, you always have a large barrage to send the other way; like a horizontal shotgun of men, to keep the threat of fire on the enemy
Its before the civil war Many people before the civil war considered themselves not really united so they usually said what state they are from instead of the Country.
@@Spearca No, he's right. Identifying as an American rather than what state is a pretty modern thing that didn't come about until a bit after the Civil War. This would have been a standard response from anyone from America at this point in history.
@@seandlax9 i lived in virginia from age 9 to 14. it was common to identify not as american, but as virginian. hell, i've lived for 15 years in europe, and i still say i lived in virginia, not america. must be a virginian thing, lots of chauvinism due to being the "first colony".
That curly haired officer that massaged Simmerson's booted feet ( 02:31 ) is Daniel Craig (James Bond). It took me a few minutes to figure out who he was.
I did some research on the song Tams (RIfleman Hagman) sings at 8:02. Rufford Park Poachers. An incident that occured in 1851 involving 40 Poachers gathering in Rufford Park and going up against rich land owners. The poachers were attacked by 10 Gamekeepers and one gamekeeper was killed. The song then written portrays the Poachers as heros. This is meant to be during the napoleonic wars, so Hagman shouldn't be singing about something which aint gonna happen for another 50 years or so ;)
Leeroy's an interesting character, because he all but points out that he doesn't especially regret siding with the Loyalists, because largely in his eyes it's the same thing in the end. The Revolutionaries threw out the Rich White Land Owners of the British Empire....and instead started electing and appointing Rich White Land Owners of the Colonies, which despite their lack of noble titles amounted to exactly the same thing in the end. Leeroy seems quite bitterly aware and sarcastic about it.
@ Northern Wolf - who was the first choice to play Sharpe? I find it difficult to imagine anyone but Sean Bean in the role. And thank you for uploading these programmes. The books and TV shows were a big part of my teens. I'm truly grateful to you, mate.
That was a Baker rifle he was using still actually. As a point of fact properly-trained musket infantry could shoot up to FIVE rounds a minute oftentimes, but three a minute would be extremely impressive for a Rifle regiment, given the difficulty in reloading them with any great speed. Of course quickly reloading and firing rifles was kind of a moot point, as they were used as scouts and skirmishers instead of line infantry.
In the books it was also kind of a roundabout way of saying Leeroy was a brave man: the British forces who remained loyal were only one in five, and often they got lynched or otherwise fucked up pretty severe by Colonists. To actually take a stand like that and remain Loyalist, even when you were almost certainly going to die or suffer for it would either take a very courageous man or a very stupid one.
@Evilmike42 Not quite. The french used a sightly smaller calibre than the british meaning that the british could use captured french amunition without recasting the bullets. The universality was because the britisgh armed nearly everybody with british weapons (Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, Russians).
@gdawsey Actually the Spartans just called it talking: during your Ergoge you were beaten if you didn't answer questions in as few words as possible. Everyone ELSE called it laconic, because Sparta was in the region of Greece then-called "Laconia", and the Spartans back then called themselves "Lacanians" seeing as many weren't from Sparta proper. The more you know!
if the marching scene takes place In 1809, why is Hagman singing the song "rufford park poachers" which recounts and mourns an event that happened in 1850?
I wonder , just how many young men swallowed or bit into a musket ball while trying to do this loading dance while under fire. Doing all of this, while a whole rank of the enemy were shooting at you must have been absolutely terrifying
@Ironzealot7531 these are not rifles, they are muskets. And you actualy can tap load a baker rifle if you miss out the leather patch. It's less accurate than a normal musket, but hey.
common merit can surely kick ass. Many of Napoleon's marshals origionated from the lowest backgrounds and they rose to become very good commanders, and they showed those "pure-blooded" aristocrates and kings how a man really fights.
Cochrane does a great preformance, gives Cox his set-ups, and has the right mixture of dispicable and baffoon, he represents everything that Sharpe stands against, very good counterpart. and its great comedy when they make little digs at him, a real "Major Burns" from M*A*S*H, you luv to hate him, and you luv Maj. Hogan even more because he says and does what you wish you could do. Also it seems pretty spot on for aristoc leaders of the time and what soldiers had to put up with, sad :(
I believe the British army during those times were actually the only army to train their men with live ammunition on a regular basis. And I believe that's why the British musketeer could shoot so quickly.
Loading without a ramrod? I've done it. Doesn't really work with minie balls or rifled guns, but you can do it with smoothbores by skipping the patch (thus the comment about the round rolling out of the barrel). Yes, there is a large loss of range/accuracy/power, pretty much to the point of being useless, but that wasn't the point of the exercise. The point was to simply fire as fast as they could.
@@jaybestnz Because its massively inaccurate. You might be able to spit one round, but the muzzle would become searing hot and it's not very wise to put your head over the muzzle of a loaded weapon
@@Tonks143 well I’m the heat of battle with the french army charging at you and cannons blowing up your comrades around you I’m sure that the heat from the muzzle would be the least of your concerns.
@@Governor2310 what about the fact that simply tapping the but on the ground would not compress the powder at all, meaning when fired it would explode, or that not putting wadding down the barrel would mean the powder would shoot past the shot, or maybe just push the ball out the end where it would roll on the floor three feet from you
It's a shame that budget restrictions prevented portraying the narrative and its battles in the correct scale. The mythical 'South Essex' were around 600 men strong if I remember, a typical strength for a single active battalion. Sharpe commanded over thirty Green jackets at this point in the novels, not just 7 odd! This is acted very well though; ITV have made some decent televised editions of celebrated British literature over the years, particularly the Sherlock Holmes of Jeremy Brett.
'money talks' such a true statement. The rich stay rich and obsessively keep their rank and status regardless of what they have to do to keep it that way, such arrogance makes me so mad. Sadly little has changed today but atleast some people have worked hard and proven you can 'cross the classes'
1. They weren't using the Brown Bess in the Peninsula War, but the East India Model. 2. It does work. It's been tested. And it doesn't compromise accuracy.
Gibbons always whingeing jealous about Sharpe and Josephina , but never seems bothered about Le Roy constantly riding alongside her chatting privately together Blatantly giving Sharpe a bag of gold knowing it'll go to Josephina so she can pay her maids wages. Gibbons even sees Sharpe already has a woman , but he takes no notice of any of that , he's still convinced she would want him if Sharpe wasn't inbetween them...🤷♂️ ..After all those chats and getting to know each other very well while riding alongside each other it obviously ends with Josephina and Le Roy getting together at the end of the episode . Le Roy all immaculately dressed handsome thick blonde hair and moustache always makes me think of Harry Flashman , ( although Le Roy is not a coward who lands on his feet) he could easily play the role of Flashman, Like Rick Mayall's character in black adder where he steals 'Bob' before she marries blackadder , lol
Everyone knows that they met and almost came to a duel, so when he says 'I've met' he reminds everyone that he pulled one from a horse and nothing became of it.
@rifal004 You tear the cartridge, pour the powder, and then ram the ball down. The paper acts as wadding after it's rammed. At least, that's how I do it.
you know, most of these guys are using the wrong muskets. i see frenchmen using brown bess muskets, and i see british using a varient of the charleville
I never said I know everything. I read in the wikipedia that they actually didn't spit balls into the barrel. I don't think I remember right, but it even said it is a myth. Look it up. I'll try to find it if you want.
Since Sharpe had a battlefield commission, at the end of the war with Napoleon in 1815, would Sharpe maintain his commission or revert back to enlisted.
wasn't a myth, after so many rounds you couldn't keep doing it that way, and it wasn't extreamly common but was done by regements whose commanders were fair and knew what they were doing
Is that Daniel Craig,rubbing that pompous arse's boot ?? What's with his hair ??!! :D Btw i love Harper's line " Send them to Ireland... we'll be free in a week !! "
dude, this is the first thing i have seen the guy that plays Leroy in that he does not play a "complete" douchebag. he was a douche in Lonesome Dove, and he was a douche in the Death Wish movie he was in with Charles Bronson
I would agree in to points, first, you cannot spit a ball into a rifle, like Harper shows, because it is a rifle, not a kusket, and second, the barrel will be very hot after the first shot, so you would probably burn your lips. But for the story and the entertainment it is very good! And according to the uniforms, if I would like to study this, I would go into a museum, and would not watch a tv series. But I think, old US movies made more mistakes than this.
you can spit the ball cause they're teaching musket men not riflemen the red jackets not green remember and harper didn't let his lips touch the barrel so he didn't get burned
I met Michael Cochrane who plays Simmerson at New York's JFK last year. A true gentleman and spoke very fiondly of the Sharpe Series.
'Send them to Ireland, we'd be free in a week'
God bless Ireland Pat!
Brining on John Tams as Daniel Hageman was a stroke of casting brilliance. Having him to provide period songs on the spot made the show so much better.
Glad to see Sharp's limp cleared up quickly. 👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
"I'm not exactly top drawer myself."
Lol. And now Daniel Craig is James Bond, a huge heartthrob for millions of women.
So is Hugh Jackman and Ryan gosling
anyone not doing the manual, give em a pint of rum- sharpe was one of the few who led men with not just discipline, but with charisma and good humor
"Stop showin' off, Sharpe." lol ;P
Hogan is so good at sweet talking.
"Bite,pour, spit, tap" now it's stuck in my head😎
Don't wanna be ''that guy'' but their method is pretty weird, you wouldn't want that with a rifle as in order for the rifling to work the bullet has to sit in there tight, actual info from the period tells us they used cartridges but with probably pre patched balls, which would have taken longer to reload than a regular musket even with a ramrod, and the bullet simply doesn't have enough weight to just fall down for reasons I already mentioned.
Also there's reason you're supposed to grip the ramrod with your fingers, because if the musket goes off and it can, it won't blow off your entire hand, now imagine sticking your entire head in front of the muzzle just after you primed and put it to half cock, and poured a bunch of powder down the barrel, that's just an accidental suicide waiting to happen.
@@TheThingInMySink rank and file men of this period would have been using smoothbore muskets; knocking the buttstock on the ground twice significantly sped up reloading and sufficiently rammed the ball down; it was a noted technique of the British in fact--it made their reloads abnormally fast!
Now Sharpe's men would historically have been using rifled guns, i.e. rifles, and for that the ramrod *is* required... but they'd have had to learn the smoothbore techniques to earn the rifles!
@@TheThingInMySink look up the battle reports of the British against the rifled, masterwork jezails and you'll see what they had!
@@TheThingInMySink additionally, the tactic was for the kneeling men/standing men to both fire, and then rotate back to reload--not to reload in place! In this way, you always have a large barrage to send the other way; like a horizontal shotgun of men, to keep the threat of fire on the enemy
Brian Cox is brilliant in this series
"Democracy and Monarchy don't make no difference. Money talks; Merit walks."
Sadly, this is true in the modern day.
Even more so now friend...
I hate to dissolution you, but it’s always been the case. Nothing will ever change, sad ☹️ but true.
@@jamesunsworth6865 The solution is called Socialism. (and no, not the phony straw-man mockery Socialism pushed in America for the past 250 years.)
Money talks, bullshit walks
"plata Talks..." - Magic
i love how his limp comes and goes
Adrenaline
@@9inchpp Dude you get an award for the greatest necropost
mine was 5 years and the guy responded.
you get a thumbs up
Sharpes' been shot in that leg so many times, there's more lead then bone in there😅
Love this serie. Man of my heart, this Sharpe. Great performance by Sean Bean
"From America sir?" "No...from Virginia." 😌
Its before the civil war Many people before the civil war considered themselves not really united so they usually said what state they are from instead of the Country.
@@Spearca No, he's right. Identifying as an American rather than what state is a pretty modern thing that didn't come about until a bit after the Civil War. This would have been a standard response from anyone from America at this point in history.
@@seandlax9 Maybe you should read Julian Hawthorne, History of the United States 1492-1910....
@@seandlax9 i lived in virginia from age 9 to 14. it was common to identify not as american, but as virginian. hell, i've lived for 15 years in europe, and i still say i lived in virginia, not america. must be a virginian thing, lots of chauvinism due to being the "first colony".
That curly haired officer that massaged Simmerson's booted feet ( 02:31 ) is Daniel Craig (James Bond). It took me a few minutes to figure out who he was.
“That being so, sir, perhaps we should introduce ourselves like gentlemen.” Leroy was a G.
I did some research on the song Tams (RIfleman Hagman) sings at 8:02.
Rufford Park Poachers. An incident that occured in 1851 involving 40 Poachers gathering in Rufford Park and going up against rich land owners. The poachers were attacked by 10 Gamekeepers and one gamekeeper was killed.
The song then written portrays the Poachers as heros. This is meant to be during the napoleonic wars, so Hagman shouldn't be singing about something which aint gonna happen for another 50 years or so ;)
Leeroy's an interesting character, because he all but points out that he doesn't especially regret siding with the Loyalists, because largely in his eyes it's the same thing in the end.
The Revolutionaries threw out the Rich White Land Owners of the British Empire....and instead started electing and appointing Rich White Land Owners of the Colonies, which despite their lack of noble titles amounted to exactly the same thing in the end.
Leeroy seems quite bitterly aware and sarcastic about it.
8:02
John Tams is a good singer. Brilliant!
'Democracy or monarchy don't make no damn bit of difference; money talks, merit walks.'
So true!
Bit of Trivia: The actor playing Leroy had a small part as a drummer boy in the film Waterloo. His father played Ney.
@expertstrategy
When the Major tells Sharpe to quit showing off, is he referring to him taking his shirt off to show his own flogging scars?
Washington won sir...
Great Quote
Sharp! Stop showing off, Sharp! Classic Major Hogan!
During this lockdown I started watching “Twin Peaks”, and I just realized Captain Leroy(LeRoy?) is the Canadian Mountie from season 2.
He was also the security guard in superman 3
yeah it's true actually, sean wasn't the 1st choice to play sharpe, but its because something happend to the guy who was supposed 2 b playing sharpe
Northern Wolf I could see Paul McGann doing Sharpe well, but not like Sean Bean
@ Northern Wolf - who was the first choice to play Sharpe?
I find it difficult to imagine anyone but Sean Bean in the role.
And thank you for uploading these programmes. The books and TV shows were a big part of my teens. I'm truly grateful to you, mate.
Paul Spelman Paul McGann was the first choice until he got hurt
Paul McCann was originally chosen as Sharpe
Aim. Bite. Tap. Spit. Pour.
Got it sir, thank you sir.
That was a Baker rifle he was using still actually.
As a point of fact properly-trained musket infantry could shoot up to FIVE rounds a minute oftentimes, but three a minute would be extremely impressive for a Rifle regiment, given the difficulty in reloading them with any great speed.
Of course quickly reloading and firing rifles was kind of a moot point, as they were used as scouts and skirmishers instead of line infantry.
you gotta love sharpe's speeches
Democracy is a bit like families. Doesn't work that well, but better than the alternatives.
05.21 Sharpe's flogging scars have been healed! ..... 07.26 nope...wait...they're back again
In the books it was also kind of a roundabout way of saying Leeroy was a brave man: the British forces who remained loyal were only one in five, and often they got lynched or otherwise fucked up pretty severe by Colonists.
To actually take a stand like that and remain Loyalist, even when you were almost certainly going to die or suffer for it would either take a very courageous man or a very stupid one.
I like Simmersons acting.
@Evilmike42 Not quite. The french used a sightly smaller calibre than the british meaning that the british could use captured french amunition without recasting the bullets. The universality was because the britisgh armed nearly everybody with british weapons (Spanish, Dutch, Portugese, Russians).
5:33= oh Sharpe do u want a drunk battalion. here comes the good part
wow, that is Danial Craig! I didn't notice that the first time :P
@gdawsey
Actually the Spartans just called it talking: during your Ergoge you were beaten if you didn't answer questions in as few words as possible.
Everyone ELSE called it laconic, because Sparta was in the region of Greece then-called "Laconia", and the Spartans back then called themselves "Lacanians" seeing as many weren't from Sparta proper.
The more you know!
The use of maggots for example is still used today to clean infection from open wounds.
if the marching scene takes place In 1809, why is Hagman singing the song "rufford park poachers" which recounts and mourns an event that happened in 1850?
I have the sudden urge to watch Death Wish 3 after seeing Leroy. :D
Yeah i got that as i watched futher on, thanks though. really like the film :)
Sir Henry Simmerson, now that's a soldier?
I wonder , just how many young men swallowed or bit into a musket ball while trying to do this loading dance while under fire.
Doing all of this, while a whole rank of the enemy were shooting at you must have been absolutely terrifying
The bite tap thing wouldnt work with a rifled barrel. The Brown Bess used at the time were smoothbores.
@Ironzealot7531 these are not rifles, they are muskets. And you actualy can tap load a baker rifle if you miss out the leather patch. It's less accurate than a normal musket, but hey.
He's a British Loyalist from America who's family supported the crown against the Revolution.
@Lefcharlie no idea, but too bad we don't see much of him in other Sharpe's (or?)
Actually, he didn't. Cornwell didn't even like the choice at first, but after a while became a fan and dedicated one of the later books to Sean Bean.
common merit can surely kick ass. Many of Napoleon's marshals origionated from the lowest backgrounds and they rose to become very good commanders, and they showed those "pure-blooded" aristocrates and kings how a man really fights.
Cochrane does a great preformance, gives Cox his set-ups, and has the right mixture of dispicable and baffoon, he represents everything that Sharpe stands against, very good counterpart.
and its great comedy when they make little digs at him, a real "Major Burns" from M*A*S*H, you luv to hate him, and you luv Maj. Hogan even more because he says and does what you wish you could do. Also it seems pretty spot on for aristoc leaders of the time and what soldiers had to put up with, sad :(
Hello there! So i was wondering what happens to the choosen men after the first movie (sharpes rifle), some of them are missing?
sharpe mentions in his first conversation with hogan that most of his men were returning phone and only a few would be staying with him
is it just me, or at 3:12 does the musket on the far right at the bottom have a suspiciously narrow barrel? it looks more like a modern rifle to me
9:32 that sounds dirty: "Touch your uncle henry..." "I had touch him again last night..."
I believe the British army during those times were actually the only army to train their men with live ammunition on a regular basis. And I believe that's why the British musketeer could shoot so quickly.
Man those British uniforms look nice but god, when they removed that leather piece from their necks, I changed my opinion
Major Hogan is so smooth.
*looks up cast list* *quotes Sharpe* BLOODY 'ELL!
I thought 'touch your uncle Henry' was a euphemism at first...
haha mad seeing Daniel Craig 007 here. Sean Bean is the one.
i think harper is using a smooth bore for the demonstration
Loading without a ramrod? I've done it. Doesn't really work with minie balls or rifled guns, but you can do it with smoothbores by skipping the patch (thus the comment about the round rolling out of the barrel). Yes, there is a large loss of range/accuracy/power, pretty much to the point of being useless, but that wasn't the point of the exercise. The point was to simply fire as fast as they could.
I love this show, but the spit and tap part kills me.
Why?
@@jaybestnz Because its massively inaccurate. You might be able to spit one round, but the muzzle would become searing hot and it's not very wise to put your head over the muzzle of a loaded weapon
@@Tonks143 well I’m the heat of battle with the french army charging at you and cannons blowing up your comrades around you I’m sure that the heat from the muzzle would be the least of your concerns.
@@Governor2310 what about the fact that simply tapping the but on the ground would not compress the powder at all, meaning when fired it would explode, or that not putting wadding down the barrel would mean the powder would shoot past the shot, or maybe just push the ball out the end where it would roll on the floor three feet from you
“Someone asking to put your face near the end of a gun doesn’t have your best interest at heart”
Sharpe misses ONE step in loading a musket - priming the pan. The order should be Bite, Prime, Pour, Spit, Tap, Present, Fire.
The French fire three rounds a minute?
During this entire series you're hard-pressed to see them fire one.
if you have money, you will get somewhere in life, regardless of the government type. if you're a good person but aren't rich...you won't get far.
Its just snuff, my grandfather used to take it.
It's a shame that budget restrictions prevented portraying the narrative and its battles in the correct scale. The mythical 'South Essex' were around 600 men strong if I remember, a typical strength for a single active battalion. Sharpe commanded over thirty Green jackets at this point in the novels, not just 7 odd! This is acted very well though; ITV have made some decent televised editions of celebrated British literature over the years, particularly the Sherlock Holmes of Jeremy Brett.
@gdawsey Come up to Upper Canada!! "Loyal she began, loyal she remains" Especially when Will and Kate are in town!!
'money talks' such a true statement. The rich stay rich and obsessively keep their rank and status regardless of what they have to do to keep it that way, such arrogance makes me so mad. Sadly little has changed today but atleast some people have worked hard and proven you can 'cross the classes'
James Bond plays a bad guy!
Oh, he did the same thing around the same time in Elizabeth.
scratch that, I found it, it's "That night in rufford park"
1. They weren't using the Brown Bess in the Peninsula War, but the East India Model.
2. It does work. It's been tested. And it doesn't compromise accuracy.
Gibbons always whingeing jealous about Sharpe and Josephina , but never seems bothered about Le Roy constantly riding alongside her chatting privately together
Blatantly giving Sharpe a bag of gold knowing it'll go to Josephina so she can pay her maids wages.
Gibbons even sees Sharpe already has a woman , but he takes no notice of any of that , he's still convinced she would want him if Sharpe wasn't inbetween them...🤷♂️
..After all those chats and getting to know each other very well while riding alongside each other it obviously ends with Josephina and Le Roy getting together at the end of the episode .
Le Roy all immaculately dressed handsome thick blonde hair and moustache always makes me think of Harry Flashman , ( although Le Roy is not a coward who lands on his feet) he could easily play the role of Flashman,
Like Rick Mayall's character in black adder where he steals 'Bob' before she marries blackadder , lol
thanks for adding this up. it's the full version brought down to parts, not being edicted or cut, is it?
So why is "I've met the young gentlemen" and insult at 1:43?
Everyone knows that they met and almost came to a duel, so when he says 'I've met' he reminds everyone that he pulled one from a horse and nothing became of it.
This is the first thing i have seen that guy in that i didn't want to see him die. the guy that plays Captain Leroy, Gavin O'Herlihy.
Is either Gibbins/Berry Daniel Craig?
@rifal004 You tear the cartridge, pour the powder, and then ram the ball down. The paper acts as wadding after it's rammed. At least, that's how I do it.
3:06 Democracy or monarchy - it makes no difference - money talks..
you know, most of these guys are using the wrong muskets. i see frenchmen using brown bess muskets, and i see british using a varient of the charleville
Gibbons is Neil Dudgeon, Berry - Daniel Craig
@TheBType The Spartans called it being witty and laconic.
yes this is the entire thing
God bless you for putting this on youtube
Let's enjoy while it lasts
Send them to Ireland. We will be free in a week! Hahah!
@Lefcharlie the actors name is Gavin O'Herlilhy. this is the first thing i have seen him in where he did not play a total douchecock.
I never said I know everything. I read in the wikipedia that they actually didn't spit balls into the barrel. I don't think I remember right, but it even said it is a myth. Look it up. I'll try to find it if you want.
Since Sharpe had a battlefield commission, at the end of the war with Napoleon in 1815, would Sharpe maintain his commission or revert back to enlisted.
He got promoted over time, so I'd imagine it stuck.
I enjoy sharpe, even if the biting of the ball and the tap load are inaccurate as fuck
wasn't a myth, after so many rounds you couldn't keep doing it that way, and it wasn't extreamly common but was done by regements whose commanders were fair and knew what they were doing
Is that Daniel Craig,rubbing that pompous arse's boot ?? What's with his hair ??!! :D
Btw i love Harper's line " Send them to Ireland... we'll be free in a week !! "
That's not the South Essex regiment, that's the South Essex Company :(
what rank is simmerson?
Why... why did that guy collapse?
lol and he's a poker player too:P
dude, this is the first thing i have seen the guy that plays Leroy in that he does not play a "complete" douchebag. he was a douche in Lonesome Dove, and he was a douche in the Death Wish movie he was in with Charles Bronson
Why does Leroy have such a strong accent???
Supposed to be a former Virginian Plantation owner
Make that 19th century...
I would agree in to points, first, you cannot spit a ball into a rifle, like Harper shows, because it is a rifle, not a kusket, and second, the barrel will be very hot after the first shot, so you would probably burn your lips.
But for the story and the entertainment it is very good!
And according to the uniforms, if I would like to study this, I would go into a museum, and would not watch a tv series.
But I think, old US movies made more mistakes than this.
Holy crap it's Daniel Craig
you can spit the ball cause they're teaching musket men not riflemen the red jackets not green remember and harper didn't let his lips touch the barrel so he didn't get burned
what song is hagman singing at 8:06-8:10