Heart Of Oak - Sharpe´s Challenge

A canção tradicional "Heart Of Oak" cantada para a última esperança no filme "Sharpe´s Challenge"

The traditional tune "Heart of Oak" sung to the Forlorn hope on Sharpe´s Challenge

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Film & Animation

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• Sharpe
• Cornwell
• Oak
• Heart

[Skipissatan]

Indians still fight in the British army, as part of the Gurkha regiments, and also those that have immigrated to Britain. There is a great deal of respect for them amongst the British. Those that lived there as part of the empire speak of it with great warmth. Hopefully, as Empires go, the British was a benevolent one.

[lobbotekka2019]

@RagdollPhysics

LOL. It must have been awkward singing it in WWI and WWII. :-D

[Aragorn106654]

@Jzadek72 I suppose its the same with all empires, as you said; the only reason it was more obvious with us is because we covered 25% of the world at our height. The french empire screwed over the Vietnamese, the 'Americans' screwed over the Natives, and the Spanish screwed over the Aztecs and Incas. There will always be consequences (ie: exterminating religions or destroying local economies and societies) with imperialism, which is why is dislike the idea. Still, thanks for replying :)

[Jzadek72]

@Aragorn106654

That's apologist nationalism. We basically, quite simply, screwed up completely every country we went to. The same is true of most western nations of the time, but we, the Brits, seemed to be best at it. Most developing countries today are considered so because of us. Look at a map of the old empire. I can guarantee that pretty much all of them will be developing, and those that aren't will usually only be like that because we almost exterminated the indigenous peoples.

[LambChowder1]

thats a forlorn hope so theyre pretty much guaranteed to die, thats why the one guy pukes shortly after this

[1946nimrod]

@Skipissatan  Indeed, there is huge respect for the Gurkhas but they're from Nepal, not India.

[NobleKorhedron]

@Skipissatan: Well, they were authoritarian gits, but put it this way - I'd rather have lived under British rule than under Czarist Russia or the Kaiser's Empire in greater Germany during the 1800's.

[NobleKorhedron]

What's with the ceremony where it looks like a Hindu Ash Wednesday?

[Oswulf1]

It would help if the singer could keep the tune.

[slideharp1]

@smsgt1 I had a grand-uncle who was a soldier in The Black Watch. He drew me a sketch of a kukhri - Gurkha knife - when I was very young. He ran his finger along the inner edge saying "and that bit, you could shave yourself with it". An exaggeration, but....... They were brigaded with the Gurkhas and were an Elite force in the BA.

[Aragorn106654]

@Skipissatan They are some of the greatest soldiers in the British army, and deserve a helluva lot of respect. Though there are examples of the British empire being a cruel, totalitarian empire, there are still greater examples of it being benevolent.

[smsgt1]

@Skipissatan For the British Army Gurkhas are recruited from Nepal, with the British Army sending out teams to find prospective candidates. Competition for places is fierce with around 30 applicants for every one available place, these are held throughout Nepal.

Yes there are Gurkhas in the Indian Army, and in the Singapore Police, but for the British Army, they come exclusively from Nepal.