Battle of Talavera from "Sharpe's Eagle"

Clip from the series Sharpe, showing the Battle of Talavera, where Richard Sharpe, played by Sean Bean, leads the South Essex regiment and captures a French Imperial Eagle

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Film & Animation

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• Sharpe
• eagle
• talavera
• napoleon
• sean
• bean
• imperial
• war
• battle

[Bangell99]

How unrealistic - the French would have run away long before that. :P

Another great scene from Sharpe!

[Octavius0]

@commando552

It's called a Nock Gun.

[expertstrategy]

@XVIIcorpsgroup, no eagle was ever captured at Talavera, but NCO Legout-Duplesis of 5th Dragoon Regiment took 4 British colors.

[chaos574]

@Octavius0 its a volly gun made by mr nock of london

[MartynT1974]

@DavBlc7 I'm well aware of that - but if I remember correctly I was replying to someone who said that Harper carried the 7 barrel gun because he's an officer, which he isn't ;-)

[DavBlc7]

@MartynT1974 that's correct - it is a NCO's rank although soldiers called Sergeant Major a "Sir" instead of called Sarge-Major! At that time he had four stripes but nowadays he had royal coat of Arms on bottom of his sleeve or in hot weather - wearing a watch style badge.

[VashDraven]

That American guy also was the main char in my fav Tales from the Crypt episode. Was so pleased to see him in this xD

[XVIIcorpsgroup]

7 people are the Frenchmen who lost the eagle.

[JPH1138]

@expertstrategy Not really, Wellesly had no choice but to retreat after the battle due to a lack of a support, but he chose to fight it because he knew he could win. So it can't be said to be a strategic loss on his part, more like a triumph for morale.

Humourously the French generals pretended that they had won the tactical battle to Napoleon - until he started asking how Victor had managed to win a battle AND lose all his cannon.

[MartynT1974]

@willmage222 Sergeant Major is not an officer's rank :-s

[Kotassium]

GIVE THE FRENCH A DAMN GOOD THRASHING!