How Sharpe Became Commander! | Sharpe Earns His Promotion | Sharpe

[@meatballg8655]

After seeing the video was only 2 minutes old naturally I gave the order to watch, that’s my style sir

[@moronicnapoleonic]

MAJOR LENNOX ANSWERED WITH A LIKE! AS YOU SHOULD’VE DONE YOURSELF HAD YOU ANY SENSE OF HONOR! YOU SUBSCRIBED YOURSELF, YOU COMMENTED YOURSELF!

[@davidwright7193]

I believe I was most assiduous in obeying both your general order to watch all Sharpe videos and your particular order to watch this video. I have friends at Horseguards sir.

[@yogodagorah5928]

I swear on oath that no one heard me make any promise with respect to leaving a like for this video to Major Lennox, sir! *(totally leaves a like for this video)*

[@moronicnapoleonic]

@@davidwright7193 He who loses the king’s subscription, loses the king’s friendship.

[@Shadowkey392]

@@davidwright7193a man who neglects to leave a like loses the algorithm’s friendship, sir.

[@HyakuSh1ki]

Ridley Scott gets to waste money on Napoleon, meanwhile Sharpe over here was showing Waterloo with 30 people, with the price of a sandwich as the entire budget. And it is somehow *better*

[@julianaylor4351]

More authentic battle tactics and so on, plus very good stuntmen.

[@Shadowkey392]

The key difference is that THIS is solely about Waterloo, whereas Napoleon is about…Napoleon.

[@CrazynToughKiwi]

​@@Shadowkey392more accurately, about him and an ex

[@Faceonthewall]

Sharpe and Hornblower TV adaptations. BBC managed to portray the entire Napoleonic war, on land and sea, with a handful of actors and a smoke machine.

[@imadeanaccounttocomment7800]

@@FaceonthewallHornblower had a way larger budget than sharpe and they were both ITV shows, ITV was basically created as a direct rival to BBC to challenge their monopoly.

[@leevespa4564]

The acting of the soldiers getting killed is absolutely......diabolical 😂😅

[@MrAdamske]

nineties british television was lit 🔥🔥🔥

[@mhirroaceroyportillo875]

10:03 😭

[@millny123]

The key word is ACTING it's not real

[@MichaelBlanchardII]

My favorite is the guy dying when the british commander said to make ready but hadn't actually ordered anyone to fire. One french guy just arbitrarily collapses. XD Probably the only survivor of that fight lol

[@LordInter]

£10 and a packet of ciggies budget lol

[@jodycwilliams]

I swear on oath that nobody heard me make any promise in respect to a like to all Sharpe videos,sir.

[@mjohnsimon1337]

Getting promoted to Commander? Now thats soldiering!

[@freemanlee5655]

Well he did not.... commander is a navy rank..... He got promoted to Lt. Col when he was attache of prince of Orange.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Newly gazetted commander!

[@yxx_chris_xxy]

"Getting promoted to Commander? Now thats soldiering!" -- no, seamanship!

[@jamesreed4229]

Sharpe: "Will you stay here and fight with us?" Officer in the Family: "Sharpe, thats immensely kind of you..." Now that's Britishing

[@KevinN-df8eo]

The thing is the gentlemen were really like that. Bad form, don't you know to get emotional or excited. Manners and understatement were natural to them.

[@bundesautobahn7]

Disobeying the Prince of Orange and at the same time still getting rewarded with the toughest military missions and getting promoted to Commander? Now THAT is soldiering.

[@douglasharley2440]

making a meme comment on a just-uploaded sharpe video?...now, _that's_ youtubing!

[@railfansteam7716]

Sharpe was NOT promoted to the rank of Commander for that is a Naval rank. He was promoted to the rank of Lt Colonel at Waterloo and later to Colonel for his mission in India.

[@debelmeis2311]

You are correct on the rank but I think they meant the billet of commander

[@ricksimon9867]

It is similar to calling a navy commander "captain" if he is the commanding officer of a ship.

[@VeggiesOutFront]

​@@debelmeis2311oh like he is officially in command of people?

[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

This is why the Duke of Wellington gave cause for Sandhurst to be created to train ‘professional officers’ to replace those ‘gentlemen officers’. Thank God.

[@GeorgeFrei-g4l]

That is also why the United States created the Service Academies after the War of Independence beginning with Military Academy and the Naval Academy, then the Coast Guard Academy at Kings Point, the Merchant Marine Academy and finally the Air Force Academy in 1955. During the Civil War, various U S Army State Militia Regiments created officer's training schools and the regular U S Army and U S Navy offered direct commissions to qualified army, navy and marine noncommissioned officers. Finally, in 1916 the first Army ROTC unit was established at Norwich University which led to the establishment of Army and Naval ROTC units at many universities and colleges, the creation of Army, Navy and Coast Guard Officer's Candidate Schools, Marine Corps Platoon Leader's Course(PLC) and state Merchant Marine Academies that granted Naval Reserve Commissions as well as Merchant Marine Officer's Licenses to graduates. An officer is supposed to be a "gentleman" or "gentlewoman" as well as a professional officer....some are and some are not! I was!

[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

@ yes but American was not plagued with idiots who thought because they were born into a fancy family they were entitled to command men in battle. You did have some idiots who didn’t know how to run a war but every country has those and a good war weeds them out pretty quick, look at your own civil war, three years the rebels ran rings around the union.

[@OneofInfinity.]

Only its not how the Prince really was, many un-historical liberties where taken. The Dutch fought bravely and even covered Wellington's "tactical" retreat at Quatre Bras.

[@geoffreyrichardson8738]

@ oh the Dutch did fight bravely just lead stupidly

[@NixonRules963]

The French soldier bursting through the gates of Hougamont armed with an axe at 11:30 is based on a real event wherein a huge French officer, Lieutenant Legros, managed to break into Hougamont. A quick-thinking British sergeant took some men and instead of attacking the French cut them off by shutting the gates behind them, thus saving Hougamont.

[@ChrisSmith-tr4lg]

And the only survivor of that attack was a young drummer boy, who also was shown briefly.

[@dominiclaherty4099]

Never has white smoke been so deadly

[@VeggiesOutFront]

That corn starch will get ya

[@jdelark6428]

Again, it amazes me what was accomplished on a shoestring budget.

[@Shadowkey392]

It wasn’t a shoestring by this point.

[@Shamino1]

Bring 'em all back for one more round. Sharpe in Crimea. Have Major Hogan be 99, Sharpe at 70, I don't even care, I'd watch it.

[@mcsegeek1]

I piddled in 8 hours late to comment on this video. That's my style, sir!

[@julianaylor4351]

The real Prince of Orange, spent all day moving around on the battlefield, then got shot because he was such an obvious target and therefore an idiot. Meanwhile Wellington and his staff, stayed in carefully positioned places. That's why he was called Silly Billy. Sharpe dressed as a French country gentleman. 😁

[@migranthawker2952]

Here we go again - solid shot from cannon exploding like a shell! Film makers never do get it right!

[@julianaylor4351]

Too expensive and dangerous to use the real thing. The film production would be breaking health and safety laws.

[@Iain1957]

its just stupid.+

[@alanmichael5619]

Well to be fair... exploding shells *were* used at waterloo.

[@jkent9915]

When I saw a Sharpe video, I liked it. That’s my style sir!

[@jaquaviusdaquavious1702]

Bro has been fighting Orcs, sieging Troy, Serving the British and being Lord of Winterfell

[@KalimBanuz]

Don’t forget about him being Emperor on Elder scroll oblivion

[@MichaelTheRead]

23:21 "I believe I am killed, ma'am..." And far too young to be dying for anything, including honor. But at least he saved those women from an even worse fate. 😔

[@joesephjoestar4449]

You guys need to release full episodes!

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

''Break square... form line... attack... '' When there's French cavalry behind that rise? Now that's NOT soldiering!!!

[@Tt23-oi3nh]

unlike other sharpe movies his indian campaign was really brutal and it wasnt like goofy backpack kills.

[@Brynson87]

Lord, I miss patriotic film and TV.

[@Sleeping_Insomiac]

Strange, I didn't even remember Boromir being at the siege of Helm's deep...

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

I just realized that the Prince Regent is Paul Bettany.

[@alanmichael5619]

Yup! My favourite casting in Sharpe is Daniel Craig as Lt Berry - who Sharpe kills. So in Sharpe a bond villain kills James Bond

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

@alanmichael5619 Don't forget about James Purefoy. He was also early in on the season as the traitor who redeemed himself with valor.

[@gwtpictgwtpict4214]

@@nocturnalrecluse1216 Erm, valour. He was British, remember? :-)

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 What?

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

@gwtpictgwtpict4214 I'm American, not British. I speak GA, not RP. So it's "VALOR" where I come from.

[@captainstriker3341]

Give em' steel lads!!!!

[@csch1510]

Sharpe, silly billies staff...😂😂😂

[@lordprimus2410]

Commander? don't you mean Colonel

[@seamusmckim4833]

Young Hakeswill at 7:15?

[@DrzBa]

"Commander" is not a rank in the British Army, and never has been. This is a naval rank.

[@grimgun100]

Oh God! Oh God? Oh God.

[@gypsylovecharm123]

Didn't know Vision was at Waterloo!

[@ahsenkhan5386]

If anyones windering this is Tom Cruise at 0:04

[@reneprovosty7032]

probably filmed in Texas.

[@bryansmith1920]

@HyaKuSh1ki, I am being presumptive, But I think you maybe Nippon, As a Brit our two Nations, Being Island Nations, Share a Outlook on the world, Not understood by others, But the battle of Waterloo, Was the Biggest loss of life, Humans and Horse, Until WWI, But Your own Nation(assuming you to be Nippon)has suffered as Britain did a Revolutionary War,

[@Uttam64able]

Somebody tell me, what's going on? God save all! I mean innocents

[@franksteinborn7248]

Es waren 3 französische Fremdenlegionäre am Tor. Ein paar mehr und die Engländer wären Muss gewesen.

[@OneofInfinity.]

Found the Prussians, about time. 😆

[@user-ve3gh5xg9q]

Boromir Sharpe 😊

[@davidwright7193]

After all these years still Sharpe

[@Dramathias]

This epic was based on the historical novels of Bernard Cornwell. So described by a Brit, who of course has to portray his main character as the hero. The Sharpe series is, in short, a striking example of the British appropriation of Waterloo. Just as Great Britain often rewrites divorce to its own advantage,

[@patrickporter1864]

English appropriation of Waterloo.

[@julianaylor4351]

@@Dramathias The allies at the battle were the English, Irish, Welsh and Scots in the British Army, The Dutch Army ( no such thing as Belgium then, it was Flanders and part of the greater Netherlands ) and The Prussian Army from Germany ( who were late because they were ambushed at on their way ... they beat off their opponents ) versus the French Napoleonic loyalists. The English were there. Is your comment a joke, or do you not know any history? 😒

[@CliffordMichael-o9x]

A frenchman view

[@Dramathias]

@CliffordMichael-o9x I'm not French. So no.

[@Dramathias]

@julianaylor4351 1) I know very well who fought at Waterloo. 2) Do you understand what i'm saying?

[@freesaxon6835]

Nothing like a bit of cannon fodder

[@janrobertbos]

...did NOT happen like that...

[@julianaylor4351]

It's a fictional account with a fictional hero. If you want an authentic Waterloo, watch the film starring Christopher Plummer as Wellington, etc, made in the late 1960s/early 1970s.

[@colindebourg9012]

It's not a documentary.

[@DrewSavo]

Just a minor note: during the actual battle of Waterloo, Prince William of Orange was actually wounded, shot in the left shoulder by a musket ball.

[@user-ve3gh5xg9q]

🇬🇧 fables but I 😊

[@garypowell1540]

Fighting battles looks like a dangerous thing to do with ones time. I seriously wonder why anyone does this sort of thing? Can't they take up a nice hobby such as playing golf or cricket, or maybe join a local bridge club?

[@lepyroberserk8486]

what a bad film, really disapointing.

[@SusanPearce_H]

Totally unrealistic.

[@robinmabbott7334]

Quite often in this series you see Sharps men deliver a sliding blow to the enemy's back Were the swords that sharp that they could cut thru the uniform and any leather straps cress crossing the body ?

[@badnoodlez]

always love to see some sharpe in my YT feed 🫡