So, the priest wants to force a girl to become a nun with Sharp's help? Sad to see in history how many were forced. I've read of women whose fathers put them in there because they didn't want to pay a dowry to any man who'd want them. Imagine being stuck for life. Beaten, starved into submissions and a lot of times used by the priests. Pathetic.
@Songsmirth Not necessarily. The priest and Sharpe are only trying to do what they think is right. There is nothing in their planning that says Harper or the girl won't have a choice. Certainly they are being encouraged, but they are not being forced. If successful, Harper gets married. Not a bad thing. And the girl serves God. Not a bad thing either. (Just ask Mother Teresa and those she helped.) If it's by choice, there is no conflict. Forced love, of course, is not love.
@myskosh2 hummm That's true. And now that I've thought about it, the girl seems to have a mind of her own. But you have to admit that only Harper knows the outcome if he takes Maria back to Ireland. Only he. On the other hand if he truely loves Maria and their baby, I thought, why not live elsewhere? They are use to living outside Ireland so why not do that? He can go home for a visit and leave her where people accept their relationship. Family isn't everything!
I love Sharpe, but the books are really better than the series, only because the budget restrains they have. I mean the South Essex on film looks to be company size, and they go through Colonels like a hot knife through butter. In the book Capt. Leroy was still running around, with Major Hogan. I wish they would redo these Episodes a bit more loyal to the book with a Bigger budget, and the same cast.
@darthhooker i know what you're saying, but (at least in the show anyway, i haven't read the book) only the light company was left after Wellington disbanded the rest
@darthhooker i know what you're saying, but at least in the series ( i haven't read the books) only the light company of the south-essex was left after wellington disbanded it
@RazorCell7 As stupid as it was, it had one detail right that Sharpe gets wrong: cannonballs. In Sharpe, cannonballs always explode and never bounce, while in reality they were of solid metal and only killed those that stood in its path.
@Timrath I don't think they have the detail wrong. I think it's just very difficult to have cannonball bouncing around the place, and it's much easier just to place a small explosive into the ground. The Patriot had a much bigger production budget and only a couple of battles to deal with. Sharpe has a constant barrage of cannonballs, and simply doesn't have the budget to do it. Again, I'm sure the people making the show were very well aware of the cannonballs bouncing around..
Why do the French even bother shooting at Sharpe when they know he can't die. If i was the French captain id fire a big net over sharpe, then attack his men with the lead saved from shooting at him. !!Vive l'empereur!! There i've bloody swung the campaign in ol' boneys favour, King George be damned.
I was casting doubt on the tactic not the British Army which I support and have even worked for. I feel that indian warriors who decided to withdraw would get out of range and under cover as soon as possible and the white settlers learnt their life-saving guerilla tactics. What you say about the Revolutionary War is true, also our King being a German. there were many Hessian conscripts on our side who wished to be elsewhere. In 1898 was your Cuban war with Spain. We didn't have one..
@AlienZygote010 Further to my earlier comments about the inadvisability of copying some of the British (and Euopean) tactics of the time: I have
just been watching Mel Gibson's The Patriot, in which I heard him say "That Gates is a fool trying to match the British muzzle to muizzle - he spent too long in the British Army!" (Mel had earlier slaughtered 20 Brits in an ambush in the woods with the aid of two small boys several muskets and a tomahawk, darting from tree to tree guerilla fashion.
the patriot was in no way an accurate portrayal of tactics of the revolutionary war. the history in that movie was just as full of shit as gibson's history in braveheart. i have ancestors who fought on both sides of the american revolution. pennsylvania german jews who fought the colonies and on the other side of my family cherokees who fought for the british. ironically, my jewish family was awarded cherokee land taken after the colonial victory. they still own it today
actually, those tactics were quite common amongst the militia from the western territories, the ones who had fought indians extensively, and some that had fought the french in the previous war. the french themselves used those same tactics to decimate the army of General Braddock at the battle of the monongahela in 1755
A slow march backwards: what a bloody daft way to retreat (or. more politely, withdraw)! No wonder the American hunters and indian skirmishers had won the War of Independence.
we won the revolution because we were fighting for freedom, every last man. the common british soldier, however, was fighting to line the coffers of the king. every colonial man had something at stake. the british soldier was simply submitting to a remnant of opressive fuedalism. therefor, we had less equipment, less training, less suplies, and starvation, but we fought harder even though we paid a higher cost. and remember, not all tribes fought for the Americans. mine fought for the british
You won because France stepped in. And many 100,000s of colonials remained loyal to the Crown. And I think the practice of slavery by the Americans makes them every bit as oppresive as the British.
the french offered very little help. they if they helped so much, why did troops go the entire war without being paid only to be compensated with land taken from loyalists? of course many loyalists fought also. most people who fought in the revolution were in fact americans, on both sides. don't argue history with me. you will face well armed adversary, and i know more about native american roles in american wars than just about anyone you will ever meet.
also this tactic allowed the british to fight while they retreat and still maintain order. this was a viable and wise tactic. it would have been a waste of brave lives to stay in the fort for nothing. and honestly, being from a country that got their ass handed to them so badly and easily the way yours did in 1898 - you have no right to insult the one country who has had a strong military for longer than any other nation on the planet.
Not'at'all, the celts (or the various tribes of the Neuchatal region that the greeks referd to as "Keltoi") lived all over mainland Europe, eventually. by the end od the dark ages (ie the end od mass migration in Europe) they lived in Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, parts of Scotland and Brittany.
@engelheim Glad to hear it. Please continue. Is it pronounced Kelts or centls with a, "c?" Did the celts have any particular physical characterists like being small, blond hair, or etc.? And thanks! I enjoy the details of the history or pre-history of any country. :) Songs
@engelheim they still live all over mainlaind europe and in many other places around the world. just like the germanic peoples do with whom they mixed. as you certainly know are for example the french a mix of mostly celtic and germanic people. named after the germanic tribe of the franks that conquered them. same goes for the english etc.
@engelheim the Celts migrated from Britain en masse due to the Saxon Invasion of Britain in the 5th Century. hence how the area of France to the west of Normandy gained the name of Brittany. those that didn't flee to the continent retreated to Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland. Wales wasn't conquered until Edward I, Scotland until the 17th Century was independent, and Cornwall was absorbed into England. Ireland came under English rule under Henry I. another history nerd.
Interesting. At first Sharpe calls Curtis doctor as he is not one of the catholic faithful, yet after the song he calls him father. Does this imply that Richard has found his faith?
Is he snging in Irish, because I can't understand a word he is saying! Is it a song about a pregnant cow giving birth to a lamb? Or a donkey that shat a chicken?
look im irish, irish is a gaelic language as is scottish which is drivived from irish, same situation with manx. What do the welsh have to do with anything, welsh is celtic but not gaelic.
Sharpe is amazing, I like the bit when he is on the verge of death. It is really cool how everyone tries to save him. I proves how many people like him but also shows how many don't
60,000 views. Great episode from a great series.
CanadaMMA 3 months ago
It's that bitch from Braveheart.
ThatsMrMoronToYou 4 months ago
0:19 The biggest camel toe I've ever seen
apprenticemart2 7 months ago
@apprenticemart2 Made my day mate hahhahahahah xD
theathiestalaby 6 months ago
@apprenticemart2 Hahahaha good eyes.
Hask79 6 months ago
@apprenticemart2 LMAO
MrPaddyR 4 months ago
Oh my god. Does he call that SINGING?!?
PolkaDotPapillon 7 months ago
Who is that man on the horse who said good day in the last part isnt he in a nother film please REPLY
MultiLusitania 7 months ago
So, the priest wants to force a girl to become a nun with Sharp's help? Sad to see in history how many were forced. I've read of women whose fathers put them in there because they didn't want to pay a dowry to any man who'd want them. Imagine being stuck for life. Beaten, starved into submissions and a lot of times used by the priests. Pathetic.
Songsmirth 9 months ago
@Songsmirth
no.. they wanted the girl to recieve the best help avialible... evin if that meant hard cok.. the priest wanted her back where she began
kingslegion1 9 months ago
@Songsmirth Not necessarily. The priest and Sharpe are only trying to do what they think is right. There is nothing in their planning that says Harper or the girl won't have a choice. Certainly they are being encouraged, but they are not being forced. If successful, Harper gets married. Not a bad thing. And the girl serves God. Not a bad thing either. (Just ask Mother Teresa and those she helped.) If it's by choice, there is no conflict. Forced love, of course, is not love.
myskosh2 8 months ago
@myskosh2 hummm That's true. And now that I've thought about it, the girl seems to have a mind of her own. But you have to admit that only Harper knows the outcome if he takes Maria back to Ireland. Only he. On the other hand if he truely loves Maria and their baby, I thought, why not live elsewhere? They are use to living outside Ireland so why not do that? He can go home for a visit and leave her where people accept their relationship. Family isn't everything!
Songsmirth 8 months ago
Sharpe always gets so mad when the "privileged bastards" who rank over him get killed.
DwnAszPunk 11 months ago
"Now that's what you call a priest."
This movie improved tenfold with John Kavanagh's appearance.
BaldGrace 1 year ago
Sharpe gets shot again?!
Rohv 1 year ago
I really could have done without the musical number
Mattthornz 1 year ago 8
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ARE NIGGERS CELTS ?
sterlingmenthol77 1 year ago
@sterlingmenthol77 Are all posts in capslock by racist morons?
grimmorrigan 11 months ago
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT SONG THE PRIEST SINGS
OddeyeDL 1 year ago
@OddeyeDL Its 'The Light of Other Days' by Thomas Moore
ceb3po 1 year ago
The Light of Other Days by Thomas Moore
ceb3po 1 year ago
@ceb3po THANK YOU!
OddeyeDL 11 months ago
wow sharpe died...JK lol he cant die
ColScots726 1 year ago
I love Sharpe, but the books are really better than the series, only because the budget restrains they have. I mean the South Essex on film looks to be company size, and they go through Colonels like a hot knife through butter. In the book Capt. Leroy was still running around, with Major Hogan. I wish they would redo these Episodes a bit more loyal to the book with a Bigger budget, and the same cast.
darthhooker 1 year ago
@darthhooker i know what you're saying, but (at least in the show anyway, i haven't read the book) only the light company was left after Wellington disbanded the rest
i agree that they should remaker
SixFootBabyStudios 1 year ago
@darthhooker i know what you're saying, but at least in the series ( i haven't read the books) only the light company of the south-essex was left after wellington disbanded it
SixFootBabyStudios 1 year ago
The Patriot was a dumb fucking movie
the Sharp series REALLY portrays how warfare was fought back then
The patriot was just another dumb typical American movie
RazorCell7 1 year ago 6
@RazorCell7 As stupid as it was, it had one detail right that Sharpe gets wrong: cannonballs. In Sharpe, cannonballs always explode and never bounce, while in reality they were of solid metal and only killed those that stood in its path.
But you are right, it was an awful film.
Timrath 1 year ago
@Timrath I don't think they have the detail wrong. I think it's just very difficult to have cannonball bouncing around the place, and it's much easier just to place a small explosive into the ground. The Patriot had a much bigger production budget and only a couple of battles to deal with. Sharpe has a constant barrage of cannonballs, and simply doesn't have the budget to do it. Again, I'm sure the people making the show were very well aware of the cannonballs bouncing around..
GabrielStefan 1 year ago
Why do the French even bother shooting at Sharpe when they know he can't die. If i was the French captain id fire a big net over sharpe, then attack his men with the lead saved from shooting at him. !!Vive l'empereur!! There i've bloody swung the campaign in ol' boneys favour, King George be damned.
illegalbadgerbaiting 2 years ago
spoken like a true 13 year old that has played prestigo and other strategy games a few times and has convinced himself that he is a tactical genius.
AlienZygote010 2 years ago
Eh? sharpe isn't real you Twot.
illegalbadgerbaiting 2 years ago
oops, i meant stratego
AlienZygote010 2 years ago
I was casting doubt on the tactic not the British Army which I support and have even worked for. I feel that indian warriors who decided to withdraw would get out of range and under cover as soon as possible and the white settlers learnt their life-saving guerilla tactics. What you say about the Revolutionary War is true, also our King being a German. there were many Hessian conscripts on our side who wished to be elsewhere. In 1898 was your Cuban war with Spain. We didn't have one..
Hendrikdevuile 2 years ago
@AlienZygote010 Further to my earlier comments about the inadvisability of copying some of the British (and Euopean) tactics of the time: I have
just been watching Mel Gibson's The Patriot, in which I heard him say "That Gates is a fool trying to match the British muzzle to muizzle - he spent too long in the British Army!" (Mel had earlier slaughtered 20 Brits in an ambush in the woods with the aid of two small boys several muskets and a tomahawk, darting from tree to tree guerilla fashion.
Hendrikdevuile 2 years ago
the patriot was in no way an accurate portrayal of tactics of the revolutionary war. the history in that movie was just as full of shit as gibson's history in braveheart. i have ancestors who fought on both sides of the american revolution. pennsylvania german jews who fought the colonies and on the other side of my family cherokees who fought for the british. ironically, my jewish family was awarded cherokee land taken after the colonial victory. they still own it today
AlienZygote010 2 years ago
actually, those tactics were quite common amongst the militia from the western territories, the ones who had fought indians extensively, and some that had fought the french in the previous war. the french themselves used those same tactics to decimate the army of General Braddock at the battle of the monongahela in 1755
Isildun9 1 year ago
A slow march backwards: what a bloody daft way to retreat (or. more politely, withdraw)! No wonder the American hunters and indian skirmishers had won the War of Independence.
Hendrikdevuile 2 years ago
we won the revolution because we were fighting for freedom, every last man. the common british soldier, however, was fighting to line the coffers of the king. every colonial man had something at stake. the british soldier was simply submitting to a remnant of opressive fuedalism. therefor, we had less equipment, less training, less suplies, and starvation, but we fought harder even though we paid a higher cost. and remember, not all tribes fought for the Americans. mine fought for the british
AlienZygote010 2 years ago
You won because France stepped in. And many 100,000s of colonials remained loyal to the Crown. And I think the practice of slavery by the Americans makes them every bit as oppresive as the British.
mrchrisdavis09 1 year ago
the french offered very little help. they if they helped so much, why did troops go the entire war without being paid only to be compensated with land taken from loyalists? of course many loyalists fought also. most people who fought in the revolution were in fact americans, on both sides. don't argue history with me. you will face well armed adversary, and i know more about native american roles in american wars than just about anyone you will ever meet.
AlienZygote010 1 year ago
french offered quite a bit of help actually. they blockaded the entire east coast from the british supplies.
avalsonline 1 year ago
@AlienZygote010
France provided the american revolutionaries with supplies that quite honestly kept the Continental Army in fighting shape.
The French effectively challenged British naval superiority in the region.
The French made up 2/3 of the Army at the Siege of Yorktown, and the British Army only surrendered because the French made escape impossible.
The French convinced the Spanish to enter the war.
The French drew British attention to many other theaters.
Hardly "little help".
GabrielStefan 1 year ago 23
@mrchrisdavis09 Thank you from an American Loyalist. I plan on getting a dual American-English citizenship someday.
EleventhSquadQuincy1 1 year ago
also this tactic allowed the british to fight while they retreat and still maintain order. this was a viable and wise tactic. it would have been a waste of brave lives to stay in the fort for nothing. and honestly, being from a country that got their ass handed to them so badly and easily the way yours did in 1898 - you have no right to insult the one country who has had a strong military for longer than any other nation on the planet.
AlienZygote010 2 years ago
The explosions are for tv.But they didn'y have the budget for a good canister or Grapeshot.
oldsreo 2 years ago
Who is the actor playing the one armed captain?
matt304671 2 years ago
James Purefoy, he also acted as Marc Antony in Rome.
wilsonnortheast 2 years ago
I'm sick of these bloody Irish Catholics. :)
LordWellington15 2 years ago
and they are sick of you too.
AlienZygote010 2 years ago
Poor Harper...out looking for his bff Sharpe among all the dead soldiers :(
HelloKitty2903 2 years ago
Not'at'all, the celts (or the various tribes of the Neuchatal region that the greeks referd to as "Keltoi") lived all over mainland Europe, eventually. by the end od the dark ages (ie the end od mass migration in Europe) they lived in Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, parts of Scotland and Brittany.
Yes, I am a history nerd.
engelheim 2 years ago 30
yes you are
and you are....great
deathsamael 2 years ago
Ahh, tis a proud day to find another European history nerd!
tevyethemad 2 years ago
@engelheim And then came the Anglo Saxons. Huzzah!
grobo11 1 year ago 2
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Songsmirth 9 months ago
@engelheim Glad to hear it. Please continue. Is it pronounced Kelts or centls with a, "c?" Did the celts have any particular physical characterists like being small, blond hair, or etc.? And thanks! I enjoy the details of the history or pre-history of any country. :) Songs
Songsmirth 9 months ago
@engelheim they still live all over mainlaind europe and in many other places around the world. just like the germanic peoples do with whom they mixed. as you certainly know are for example the french a mix of mostly celtic and germanic people. named after the germanic tribe of the franks that conquered them. same goes for the english etc.
toomanyfires 5 months ago
@engelheim the Celts migrated from Britain en masse due to the Saxon Invasion of Britain in the 5th Century. hence how the area of France to the west of Normandy gained the name of Brittany. those that didn't flee to the continent retreated to Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland. Wales wasn't conquered until Edward I, Scotland until the 17th Century was independent, and Cornwall was absorbed into England. Ireland came under English rule under Henry I. another history nerd.
Isildun9 3 months ago
@engelheim So am I
saxonprince1 2 months ago
@engelheim your not half as clever as you'd like to think celts lived in ireland,britain and brittany long before the end of the dark ages
gt2e 2 weeks ago
Of course not, he's a b--censored--y papist!
hahaha just being a bit of a cheeky protestant
MrTriggr 2 years ago
That priest can not sing.
zukalop 2 years ago 3
Yeah, it's a bit dodgy singing
amplebits 2 years ago
it is a style of singing
tumadoireacht 2 years ago 2
everytime i like an officer he gets owned by the french. i liked that colonel.
abrondarbit 2 years ago 5
just like sharpe and you wont get disappointed.
Finchy000 2 years ago 3
@abrondarbit Damn those frogs!!! They kill the British Colonel!!!
sushi81 1 year ago
harper talks soo much bullshit lmao..........
duckmann08 2 years ago 3
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gay preist stfu! lmao
duckmann08 2 years ago
Interesting. At first Sharpe calls Curtis doctor as he is not one of the catholic faithful, yet after the song he calls him father. Does this imply that Richard has found his faith?
Soliwo 3 years ago
i reckon its just a scripting error
mngler 2 years ago
Painful singing
Gladiator0719 3 years ago 2
Found it. Oft in the Stilly Night, words by Thomas Moore.
1126thmp 3 years ago
What is the song that the priest, el mirador sings? touching lament.
1126thmp 3 years ago
I love it how Teresa is always present.
clepsydra9 3 years ago
theresa is dead, right?
Greenhorsemanship 3 years ago
Yep killed in Sharpe's Enemy by that awful Obadiah.
clepsydra9 3 years ago
Sad moment.
1126thmp 3 years ago
one of the best fight scenes from the show imho
celtic983 3 years ago
I actually liked the singing. lol
saelaird 3 years ago
Is he snging in Irish, because I can't understand a word he is saying! Is it a song about a pregnant cow giving birth to a lamb? Or a donkey that shat a chicken?
Drew82a 3 years ago 2
Irish isn't a langage they speak english
nooo8oooo 3 years ago
you are sooo wrong buddy! Paddy would correct your ass so bad! King george lives!
Drew82a 3 years ago
Gaelic, not Irish, isn't it? And he's singing in English anyway.
SaxyLexx 3 years ago
irish is a gaelic language, scottish and manx are dirived from it
kieranfitz 3 years ago
actualy irish is gaelic becuase the celts lived in scotland,wales and ireland. so if you going to comment learn your history.
FinalFreek 3 years ago
look im irish, irish is a gaelic language as is scottish which is drivived from irish, same situation with manx. What do the welsh have to do with anything, welsh is celtic but not gaelic.
kieranfitz 3 years ago
Welsh is a celtic language of the Brythonic branch, like Cornish and Breton. Scottish, Irish, and Manx are all Celtic from the Goidelic branch.
asmodeon 2 years ago
Asshole...
Mehow80 2 years ago
beg your pardon sir but whom are you calling an arsehole? me or kieranfitz?
FinalFreek 2 years ago
celts also lived in england =-p
LukePhillipsWINS 2 years ago
yeah but only in the far corner of cornwall and over places but only small comunity.
FinalFreek 2 years ago
are you joking? they lived all over england, they throught with the romans, unless all my history lessons were some drunkn dream!
LukePhillipsWINS 2 years ago
All over Europe, in fact
Stachelschwein1975 2 years ago
HAHAHA!
Lachausis 2 years ago
Dude, that was rude about that singing...
Lachausis 2 years ago
Sharpe is amazing, I like the bit when he is on the verge of death. It is really cool how everyone tries to save him. I proves how many people like him but also shows how many don't
1002gabby1002 3 years ago
anyone else fast forward through the singing
laxpanther620 3 years ago 5
Yep
pepporonicat 3 years ago 2
absolutely.
9215 3 years ago 2
yup
fredweena 3 years ago 2
haha. Yes indeed I did.-)
livmlarsen 2 years ago
Isn't it funny that at 6.05 that french guy says "Rubarb Rubarb". How odd!
theburningfretboard 3 years ago
funny how, the officer in charge always manages to get himself killed leaving sharpe to lead the offensive! ahah :)
my all time favourite action hero!
davidhunteresq 3 years ago 5
He was actually one of the few officers that showed respect to Sharpe. I liked him too
Lachausis 2 years ago 2
love it when he like dies!
D1ddyt0t2 3 years ago
Hagman is the best shot! amazin
Drew82a 3 years ago 2
hagman will always be the best shot he is from cheshire and they are known for their marksmanship
scottsman1776 3 years ago 4
aye!
MAXIMILIANAIRE 3 years ago
I love this show
Firesideky 4 years ago 25