is that comment "Washington won..." supposed to be that he is proud that Washington, also a Virginian, beat the British, but he is torn by having a loyalist father? Kind of a weird character, more of a complex role that doesn't get much explanation here
@wakeoftheflood2 Loyalists were driven out and their holdings confiscated,with British defeat. Reconnecting with the Crown was good sense if you wanted to hold on to as much disposable income as possible. Hedging your bets, I believe it is called.
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.
@RememberThe20thMain I think they just protray these guys this way to make them more disreputable. British thrive on polite behavior and manners. Of course when one travels to England you can make a clear distinction who is top shelf and who isn't.
'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'
is it me or doses the virginian have better manners then the british gentleman which is strange because i always thought that english had the best manners
@TheBType I disagree sterotypes are made because of common behavior comeing from a people if this were not true there would be no such thing as a sterotype but of corse not every one is sterotype do
@RemembertThe20thMain Stereotyping, lacks objectivity, and fairness, as well as little intellectual energy. Unless it is used as a tool to malign a person or group for a particular agenda. See Propaganda.
@gdawsey you have never joked to someone about their sterotype before. it can be fun to both people and if you actualy been around people in a diverse culter you would know that Stereotypes are somes times true and are you talking about the nazis
Barry old boy had to touch his uncle simmerson for some tin last night. I wonder where he touched. Balls = 3 ginnys, shaft = 4, the head = 6 ginnys and 69 pence
Merit is what makes men, not money. How do you think France had the largest variety of very good commanders? It's because of common merit. Soult, Ney, Davout, Suchet, Murat, Desaix, Kleber, etc...all earned their ranks the hard way.
Thats probably the most flattering portrayal of an American in the military that Ive seen. Hes got common sense and he isnt a complete prick unlike the rest of the S. Essex staff.
He seems kind of conflicted: he's not happy about being unable to go back to America, and doesn't seem very happy that his fortune is basically made off of slaves and molasses, as he explains later, but he's not brave enough to give it all up.
@ShowYourWorking Not really. It was common practice to loot enemy soldiers for equipment, especially weapons. Muskets of the time were mostly of the same caliber, and soldiers usually cast their own bullets anyway.
@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).
the sharpe series is probably the most scrutinised series ever in regards to historical content. honestly comments are just a self righteous yuppiefest
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
LOL. . "Send them to Ireland, we'll be free in a week." - Ain't that the truth. Irish back then were like damn dwarves out of fantasy genres. They drink, shag, and fight. Chances are they die doing one or the other.
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
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 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 ;)
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 :(
is still used in extreme cases. It works and it can be proven because all this practice accomplishes is an auto-responce from the body, which can be measured.
Then again, your point regarding theories being wrong yet widespread held to be true, is, I'm affraid, very true, even today. I can think of a few ....science isn't perfect.
And some say "ends" with Pasteur. In the say 70 or so years spanning this period, nearly all classical notions of the human body, ailments and treatments change from stuff like bleeding to medical practice we would recognize. That however doesn't mean everything the doctors did before that was ineffective or just wishfull thinking. A lot was, and would be considered nearly criminal these days, but some practices (like elsewhere is this series) like rapid cooling and heating of a patient
Thats not perfectly true, leeching has some cure effect because of the leeches producing some kind of blood thining substance wich works exactly like aspirin.
The theorie behind bleeding is called humorologic medicin try to balance the body humors melacholon(black gale), colon(gale), plegma(slime)) and sanguis(blood).
leeches, yes, but that is beyond the issue. Bleeding in itself does nothing to aid healing, quite the opposite actually. Except: when a wound needs more blood to heal properly, "drawing blood though" by means of leaches etc is an option.
The balacing stuff, I'm sorry, but that is NOT within the realm of emperical science and medicin, therefore unproven (mind you, it has been tried all right)
It's somewhat like "gee, the patient didn't die, so whatever we did must have helped"
I'll have to agree to the fact people weren't stupid and you are right that from their point of view they were doing the right thing. Nearly all the medical texts confirm that and well into the nineteenth century at that! It is really fascinating to "see" the literature changing virtually overnight (between 1855 and 1867) even though at the same time, "real" modern medicine was gaining knowledge incredably fast. This process starts with Jenner in the 1790's
There is a very good reason, it was done to both protect the frizzen from opening, thus loosing the charge rendering the rifle unable to fire when needed as well as a secondairy failsafe, since the rifle was carried loaded, on half cock. See, you simply cannot rest the flint on the frizzen for two reasons, first the frizzen will be cranked open and of course, any little spark might set the charge off.
As a matter of fact, this practice is Dutch in origin, dating back to the 1640's.
Bleeding was considered a "universal" cure. Despite all the gains in medical knowledge since classical times, most physicians held the belief that all ills were due to bad blood, either too much or too hot or poison in it or gas building up or too much sex or whatever. Relieving the patient of some blood helped, so they thought, to help the body to cure itself.
All in all, a rather hollistic notion that some quacks / alternative "healers" still hold on to. Basically, it's nonsense.
the fictitious South Essex was at half strength due to travel issues and illness/wounded, there were several real life issues like this alothough personally i doubt none of them got quite as bad
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
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musketeers never spat balls into their barrels, unlike how inaccurate history books portray them. They used ramrods. This movie STINKS in terms of historical accuracy. Just look at the French, they are portrayed as complete idiots. The cavalry never wore white hats..
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 should do more research before you act as if you know everything. Spitting balls into the barrel of a musket used to be common practice among the troops of the line. It increased the rate of fire, and was commonly called tap loading, because the troops would then slam the butts of their muskets on the ground to lodge the bullet snugly against the powder charge.
You know that when you fire blackpowder no airgap between powder charge and bullet is allowed due to overpressure. When there is a gap your rifle can blow up.
After a few shots the barrel fouling (blackpowder) may prevent the bullet from falling down the barrel resulting in a dangerous situation for the shooter.
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.
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
I'd assume you could only do it once or twice as the fouling created by the powder (which was dirty compared to modern propellants) would make it less and less reliable. I've only fired a Bess once (at the Colchester Tatoo in about 1985) so I don't mean to big myself up as an expert!
Ive met the man who plays Major Leroy. Nice guy.
MrKingclumsy 1 week ago
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.
Truebluejock09 1 week ago
:50 By god Sharpe, this will not do!
xlusciousxjohnnyx 1 week ago
"Democracy and Monarchy don't make no difference. Money talks; Merit walks."
Sadly, this is true in the modern day.
TheCommunistColin 3 weeks ago
is that comment "Washington won..." supposed to be that he is proud that Washington, also a Virginian, beat the British, but he is torn by having a loyalist father? Kind of a weird character, more of a complex role that doesn't get much explanation here
wakeoftheflood2 1 month ago
@wakeoftheflood2 Loyalists were driven out and their holdings confiscated,with British defeat. Reconnecting with the Crown was good sense if you wanted to hold on to as much disposable income as possible. Hedging your bets, I believe it is called.
gdawsey 1 month ago
did Perkins get laid?
malechauvinistxy 2 months ago
Why does Leroy have such a strong accent???
chaz1453 2 months ago
"Send them to our island: we'll be free in a week!"
It's like one of the major requirements for being a Chosen Man is to be a smartass.
TheBType 2 months ago
@TheBType The Spartans called it being witty and laconic.
gdawsey 1 month ago
@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!
TheBType 1 month ago
@RememberThe20thMain I think they just protray these guys this way to make them more disreputable. British thrive on polite behavior and manners. Of course when one travels to England you can make a clear distinction who is top shelf and who isn't.
TheArminius23 4 months ago
'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'
mavisformula 4 months ago
I love how the two officers talk about sex and masturbation.
"I don't lend, old boy...I'll play cards with you for 3 Guineas, or you can touch your uncle henry."
"Dammit, Barry, I had to touch him again yesterday to settle what I owe you!"
TheCommunistColin 5 months ago
@TheCommunistColin Can't tell if you are being sarcastic but I surely hope touch was just a euphanism for 'beg'!
Museite 4 months ago
@Museite I don't think so! XD
TheCommunistColin 3 weeks ago
That's not the South Essex regiment, that's the South Essex Company :(
lonewolf1868 6 months ago
is it me or doses the virginian have better manners then the british gentleman which is strange because i always thought that english had the best manners
RemembertThe20thMain 7 months ago
@RemembertThe20thMain
The thing about stereotypes is that they aren't true and never have been.
TheBType 2 months ago
@TheBType I disagree sterotypes are made because of common behavior comeing from a people if this were not true there would be no such thing as a sterotype but of corse not every one is sterotype do
RemembertThe20thMain 2 months ago
@RemembertThe20thMain Stereotyping, lacks objectivity, and fairness, as well as little intellectual energy. Unless it is used as a tool to malign a person or group for a particular agenda. See Propaganda.
gdawsey 1 month ago
@gdawsey you have never joked to someone about their sterotype before. it can be fun to both people and if you actualy been around people in a diverse culter you would know that Stereotypes are somes times true and are you talking about the nazis
RemembertThe20thMain 1 week ago
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5:45 - 7:25 (and beyond and before -- in fact, the entire episode ;P!) One of my favorite moments- along with the music.
bite! pour! spit! tap! aim!
*EGuitar jam*
airwolfman 7 months ago
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Songsmirth 7 months ago
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
argonaut200 8 months ago
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argonaut200 8 months ago
bite pour spit tap aim
johnnybriggs118 8 months ago 3
does anyone else think the american looks like Keith Lemon
Lefcharlie 8 months ago 13
@Lefcharlie no idea, but too bad we don't see much of him in other Sharpe's (or?)
airwolfman 6 months ago
@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.
Isildun9 3 months ago
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Songsmirth 8 months ago
is it me or does the yank look like keith lemon from celebrity juice
TheWailingdeath 8 months ago
Barry old boy had to touch his uncle simmerson for some tin last night. I wonder where he touched. Balls = 3 ginnys, shaft = 4, the head = 6 ginnys and 69 pence
duckhunt1045 8 months ago
Merit is what makes men, not money. How do you think France had the largest variety of very good commanders? It's because of common merit. Soult, Ney, Davout, Suchet, Murat, Desaix, Kleber, etc...all earned their ranks the hard way.
expertstrategy 9 months ago
@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?
pinz2022 9 months ago
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@pinz2022, "When the Major tells Sharpe to quit showing off, is he referring to him taking his shirt off to show his own flogging scars?"
What time did it take place in the video?
expertstrategy 9 months ago
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Songsmirth 8 months ago
Berry........its James Bond!
gordonldouglas 9 months ago
its 007
andresrojas22 9 months ago
5:33= oh Sharpe do u want a drunk battalion. here comes the good part
mathewmallon 10 months ago
Thats probably the most flattering portrayal of an American in the military that Ive seen. Hes got common sense and he isnt a complete prick unlike the rest of the S. Essex staff.
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Songsmirth 8 months ago
@grimblebrumble17889
He seems kind of conflicted: he's not happy about being unable to go back to America, and doesn't seem very happy that his fortune is basically made off of slaves and molasses, as he explains later, but he's not brave enough to give it all up.
TheBType 2 months ago
@ 1:45, is that Daniel Craig woth the curly hair?
Jammersis 11 months ago
@Jammersis no it's one of the mcgann brothers, but not the one from withnail & I
JayinMovingPictures 10 months ago
@Jammersis yes it is daniel craig, my mistake
JayinMovingPictures 10 months ago
Holy crap. I just noticed that Daniel Craig was in this!!!
Evilmike42 11 months ago 2
@ShowYourWorking Not really. It was common practice to loot enemy soldiers for equipment, especially weapons. Muskets of the time were mostly of the same caliber, and soldiers usually cast their own bullets anyway.
Evilmike42 11 months ago
@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).
peterlesliegordon 10 months ago
the sharpe series is probably the most scrutinised series ever in regards to historical content. honestly comments are just a self righteous yuppiefest
heartandsoul1988 11 months ago 2
@heartandsoul1988 Hell hath no fury like a Nappy miniatures wargamer...:)
Evilmike42 11 months ago
@heartandsoul1988 well said they are like bunch of school boys eager for approval and praise
gt2e 1 month ago
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.
expertstrategy 11 months ago
3 a minutes is average for a well trained regiment. Some elite regiments could do 4
DavidUmstattd 1 year ago
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.
tamminnanny 1 year ago 3
you can't load a muzzle loader without a ramrod!
especially a rifle. You've have a half-loaded gun that would shoot the bullet half as far and 1/4 as accurately as it would otherwise. Bad research
Ironzealot7531 1 year ago
@Ironzealot7531
watch?v=Pvc86ggLUY4 method tested, might find it interesting
Robaaaayy 11 months ago
@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.
peterlesliegordon 10 months ago
"You think you can do better MISTER Sharpe?" Somehow that line always tickles me :)
bluevixen1 1 year ago
LOLOLOLOOOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLLOLO @2:30
itsmytimetodosomethi 1 year ago
Daniel Craig would destroy Sean Bean.
MajBlood 1 year ago
@MajBlood A fight between sean bean and daniel craig, now that I would pay to see.
gundog39 1 year ago 3
@MajBlood no sir
heartandsoul1988 11 months ago
@MajBlood No he wouldn't
LordWellington15 11 months ago
@LordWellington15 Yeh I agree.
MajBlood 10 months ago
Hogan is so good at sweet talking.
MajBlood 1 year ago
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the funny thing is that Sean Bean fought daniel craig in sharpes eagle and also in the movie Golden Eye in a weird way, he fought 007 twice?
WithinProduction 1 year ago
bleed me dammit!
SHADOWFREAK55 1 year ago
@9:51 the is the new james bond
spagnaspara 1 year ago
Love this serie. Man of my heart, this Sharpe. Great performance by Sean Bean
Brera011 1 year ago
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.
Isildun9 1 year ago
Daniel Craig!
theoldadage 1 year ago
did anybody hear what sharpe said, what made all the guys laugh about?? I know It was a joke, but about what??
svensksoldat91 1 year ago
@svensksoldat91 - wanker in this!
coolcraignvodka 1 year ago
@svensksoldat91
... now the trick is to keep the muzzle up to stop the bloody bullet fallin' out ...
ad9spota 1 year ago
you gotta love sharpe's speeches
121Swaleskid 1 year ago
When loading a musket, do you put the paper from the cartridge sown the barrel with the bullet or do you just throw it away?
rifal004 1 year ago
@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.
farsight398 1 year ago
@rifal004 You put it in with the ball to prevent it from falling out.
TarEldamir 1 year ago
Three rounds a minute? This is why they still used swords and bayonets.
cmwissy 1 year ago
The French r over there, they fire 3 shots a minute, u fire 2. By tomorrow morning you'll all be dead
redtempledown 1 year ago
ewww massaging stinky feet is one thing but shoes...
stupidintellect90 1 year ago
Too bad they didn't have the money to cast the Spanish regiment. Those guys were hilarious in the book .
rakkathon 1 year ago
you don't see his scars at 5:20 hmmmmm .... inconsistency
XxRAZORLIGHTROCKERxX 1 year ago
"I'm not exactly top drawer myself."
Lol. And now Daniel Craig is James Bond, a huge heartthrob for millions of women.
Nightmonkey17 1 year ago 2
2:40 looks slightly gay...
ElliePri 1 year ago
LOL. . "Send them to Ireland, we'll be free in a week." - Ain't that the truth. Irish back then were like damn dwarves out of fantasy genres. They drink, shag, and fight. Chances are they die doing one or the other.
Excaliberete 1 year ago 2
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
Isildun9 1 year ago
@Isildun9 Which Charles Bronson? The actor or the mass murderer?
Trek001 1 year ago
i wonder what simmerson said when wellinton was p.m.
definnitelymaybe 1 year ago
wow, that is Danial Craig! I didn't notice that the first time :P
dianavillier 1 year ago
lend me some tin berry old boy lol
timhemp 1 year ago
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
Isildun9 1 year ago
not everything can be perfect
kerwin230 1 year ago
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 ;)
Dippers85 1 year ago 2
8:02
John Tams is a good singer. Brilliant!
Dippers85 2 years ago 2
7:40 Stop showing off sharp
suelizjohnson 2 years ago
3:06 Democracy or monarchy - it makes no difference - money talks..
suelizjohnson 2 years ago 47
@suelizjohnson merit walks... thought id finish it for ya XD
SupermassiveMuse100 9 months ago
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Songsmirth 8 months ago
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
SBS336 2 years ago
Brian Cox is brilliant in this series
j3parrots 2 years ago 4
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 :(
thegoof171 2 years ago
Is either Gibbins/Berry Daniel Craig?
camp14dogg 2 years ago
Gibbons is Neil Dudgeon, Berry - Daniel Craig
Leodhais 2 years ago
young james bond was a prick LOL!
Vin4enco 2 years ago
'Democracy or monarchy don't make no damn bit of difference; money talks, merit walks.'
So true!
Ereldor 2 years ago 4
9:32 that sounds dirty: "Touch your uncle henry..." "I had touch him again last night..."
itsaguinness 2 years ago
'Send them to Ireland, we'd be free in a week'
God bless Ireland Pat!
Unwardil 2 years ago 32
@Unwardil
God?
And is this God in the room with you right now?
phillitupp 2 years ago
Yer, hes helping beat the heretical protestants in COD4
PhilipineMan 2 years ago
@Unwardil erin go bragh
andrewceg 1 year ago
@Unwardil Sharpes regiment i think?: GOD.SAVE.IRELAND!
SBS336 10 months ago
3:01 I think that line came from an American polititian in the 80's when he was accepting a bribe.
Anthony009R 2 years ago
is still used in extreme cases. It works and it can be proven because all this practice accomplishes is an auto-responce from the body, which can be measured.
Then again, your point regarding theories being wrong yet widespread held to be true, is, I'm affraid, very true, even today. I can think of a few ....science isn't perfect.
MrTriggr 2 years ago
And some say "ends" with Pasteur. In the say 70 or so years spanning this period, nearly all classical notions of the human body, ailments and treatments change from stuff like bleeding to medical practice we would recognize. That however doesn't mean everything the doctors did before that was ineffective or just wishfull thinking. A lot was, and would be considered nearly criminal these days, but some practices (like elsewhere is this series) like rapid cooling and heating of a patient
MrTriggr 2 years ago
Thats not perfectly true, leeching has some cure effect because of the leeches producing some kind of blood thining substance wich works exactly like aspirin.
The theorie behind bleeding is called humorologic medicin try to balance the body humors melacholon(black gale), colon(gale), plegma(slime)) and sanguis(blood).
TheSuperninjamaster 2 years ago
leeches, yes, but that is beyond the issue. Bleeding in itself does nothing to aid healing, quite the opposite actually. Except: when a wound needs more blood to heal properly, "drawing blood though" by means of leaches etc is an option.
The balacing stuff, I'm sorry, but that is NOT within the realm of emperical science and medicin, therefore unproven (mind you, it has been tried all right)
It's somewhat like "gee, the patient didn't die, so whatever we did must have helped"
Yeah, sure.
MrTriggr 2 years ago
Yeah but its not that people were outride stupid in earlier Ages and thought hey he sick lets bleed him.
The Point is a theorie can be wrong but exstensiv.
TheSuperninjamaster 2 years ago
I'll have to agree to the fact people weren't stupid and you are right that from their point of view they were doing the right thing. Nearly all the medical texts confirm that and well into the nineteenth century at that! It is really fascinating to "see" the literature changing virtually overnight (between 1855 and 1867) even though at the same time, "real" modern medicine was gaining knowledge incredably fast. This process starts with Jenner in the 1790's
MrTriggr 2 years ago
Thank God for automatics.
Anthony009R 2 years ago
Bit of Trivia: The actor playing Leroy had a small part as a drummer boy in the film Waterloo. His father played Ney.
hollywoodwerewolf 2 years ago
@hollywoodwerewolf Yup, Gavan O'Herlihey (not sure about the spelling) I've met him, really nice bloke,
tau000 2 years ago 2
i love the songs
dribbzda1st 2 years ago
lol and he's a poker player too:P
crimsonpyron 2 years ago
i think his name is berry
crimsonpyron 2 years ago
is that a young daneil craig who was giving the dickhead a foot massage?
crimsonpyron 2 years ago
"Stop showin' off, Sharpe." lol ;P
poundingonthedoor 2 years ago
Bullets were made of lead weren't they?
Putting the thing in your mouth could give you lead poisoning after a while surely?
IbeeejayI 2 years ago
Lead poisoning needs time to do its dirty work. Most of the poor lads didn´t live long enough to suffer from it.
Leggesamasch 2 years ago
thats only if i gets to your blood, as lomng as you didn't swallow it, your good
nooo8oooo 2 years ago
Aaaah ok
IbeeejayI 2 years ago
Oh my god, 1:41, is that Daniel Craig?
tgnrogue 2 years ago 2
Washington won sir...
Great Quote
Linkster2o 2 years ago
Is there a reason why the riflemen walk around with their hands on their cocks?
SLRL1A1 2 years ago
There is a very good reason, it was done to both protect the frizzen from opening, thus loosing the charge rendering the rifle unable to fire when needed as well as a secondairy failsafe, since the rifle was carried loaded, on half cock. See, you simply cannot rest the flint on the frizzen for two reasons, first the frizzen will be cranked open and of course, any little spark might set the charge off.
As a matter of fact, this practice is Dutch in origin, dating back to the 1640's.
MrTriggr 2 years ago 4
Thanks. Very informative answer!
SLRL1A1 2 years ago
Just wondering, why was Simmerson bled with that mental thing?
zodiacie 2 years ago
Bleeding was considered a "universal" cure. Despite all the gains in medical knowledge since classical times, most physicians held the belief that all ills were due to bad blood, either too much or too hot or poison in it or gas building up or too much sex or whatever. Relieving the patient of some blood helped, so they thought, to help the body to cure itself.
All in all, a rather hollistic notion that some quacks / alternative "healers" still hold on to. Basically, it's nonsense.
MrTriggr 2 years ago
The use of maggots for example is still used today to clean infection from open wounds.
suelizjohnson 2 years ago
I bet u wished u never asked ^^
barberino182 2 years ago
Not at all.That was a great answer by "Mr. Triggr"! Much appreciated!
SLRL1A1 2 years ago
I love Harper's outlook on life, Hagman's voice and Sean Bean's acting. One helluva combination!
sirius711 2 years ago 2
Sean Bean is an amazing actor.
kakalunga 2 years ago 2
Major Hogan is so smooth.
godblessolbas 2 years ago
"Stop showing off Sharpe"
thejewmatt 2 years ago 4
'Yes sir'
xD! Love Sharpe.
TomRaphaelWolf 2 years ago 4
daniel craig lol
Burnzi2 2 years ago
why the regiment has only 50 till 100 men. and not 500 till 1000?
Fila4 2 years ago
Low Production Budget... :p
austenbosten 2 years ago 5
the fictitious South Essex was at half strength due to travel issues and illness/wounded, there were several real life issues like this alothough personally i doubt none of them got quite as bad
nomoreliesmaiden 2 years ago
sharpe= pimp
NAMEMEPLEASE 3 years ago 3
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
shovels2 3 years ago
"Democracy or Monarchy don't make no difference. Money talks."
How very true.
tommytoxen 3 years ago 37
Aye. Washington, Hancock, Jefferson- all very rich men...not 'common' at all.
Being rich, they could buy service.
Infofan 3 years ago 2
@tommytoxen ....merit walks" - not so much these days but I agree with the thought:)
Anstraxe 1 year ago
Harper-"Send them to Ireland. We'd be free in a week."
ech969 3 years ago 36
@ech969 lmfao!
Olekander 1 year ago
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musketeers never spat balls into their barrels, unlike how inaccurate history books portray them. They used ramrods. This movie STINKS in terms of historical accuracy. Just look at the French, they are portrayed as complete idiots. The cavalry never wore white hats..
chopinandliszt 3 years ago
Interesting; I wonder where the "bite, pour, spit, tap" motto came from, if not from the author
Hexameron 3 years ago 4
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fuck you,slime.
Tex3393 3 years ago
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.
Kp1O 3 years ago 6
Oh yah they made hundreds in a single movie, almost all of them made the states look too good
nooo8oooo 3 years ago
you should do more research before you act as if you know everything. Spitting balls into the barrel of a musket used to be common practice among the troops of the line. It increased the rate of fire, and was commonly called tap loading, because the troops would then slam the butts of their muskets on the ground to lodge the bullet snugly against the powder charge.
thisprovidence12 3 years ago 5
You know that when you fire blackpowder no airgap between powder charge and bullet is allowed due to overpressure. When there is a gap your rifle can blow up.
After a few shots the barrel fouling (blackpowder) may prevent the bullet from falling down the barrel resulting in a dangerous situation for the shooter.
blork5 3 years ago
This is precisely why the practise was forbidden.
SLRL1A1 2 years ago
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.
chopinandliszt 3 years ago 3
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
nooo8oooo 2 years ago 2
I'd assume you could only do it once or twice as the fouling created by the powder (which was dirty compared to modern propellants) would make it less and less reliable. I've only fired a Bess once (at the Colchester Tatoo in about 1985) so I don't mean to big myself up as an expert!
SLRL1A1 2 years ago
"Sharpe."
"Yes, sir?"
"Stop showing off, Sharpe."
x'D Classic.
DearGirlMoonLoon 3 years ago 4
Hmm like the part where he takes off his shirt! ;)
I watched the Hornblower series before this so now its nice to be back on land again!
LeChatBlanche 3 years ago 3