The Events That Led Sharpe To Shoot The Prince Of Orange | Best Moments | Sharpe

[@alvinwagner6085]

I love when Sharpe told Harper to stay out of it , it was a hanging matter, Harper said “aim for his belly.” He was all in.

[@ariedijker2911]

He also deserves the death penalty.

[@ticcker6815]

I started dying when he said that 😭

[@BigArmBoss]

@@ticcker6815 So did the Prince of Orange

[@itsnay7382]

@@BigArmBoss this needs big upvotes hahaha

[@julianmhall]

I loved it in the book when Sharpe keeps saying what a good shot it was, and when he's told the Young Frog was hit in the shoulder not the belly Harper takes the mickey about it being such a great shot.

[@craigmorgan8493]

"I never mind men running, as long as they come back"! Brilliant line.

[@ireviewshtuff]

I love how he encourages them to try again lol

[@abcdef-cs1jj]

Only - that is the thing that not only loses battles but gets people killed by the thousands. If Wellington really didn't mind men running from the battlefield, he would have lost every battle he ever participated in. To keep men from running is like 80% of the job.

[@jeffbosworth8116]

@@abcdef-cs1jj except he really said it

[@blackfox4138]

@@abcdef-cs1jj Back in the day, battles were more like midday events. If a regiment broke rank and fled, a good chunk of the time that meant most of them would survive to fight the next day. The only time you wouldn't want your men to run is if you're holding onto a very specific position. Wellington understands that it's better to lose a few fields one day so you can push the enemy back the next day. Warfare during the Napoleonic Era was a bit more laid back than it is these days.

[@brendontruong7127]

@@blackfox4138 It still holds true today. It is usually never worth loosing men over every inch of ground. It just leads to worse morale issues compared to retreating. Armies don't suffer as much from morale problems when it comes to protecting key positions. Holding elastic front lines and engaging guerilla warfare tends to preserve army morale a lot more. Large attacks and defenses should only be reserved for when it matters most.

[@snakeenjoyingacanofbeans5219]

It was all a matter of hats. As you can see at 3:00 Sharpe was very strongly in favor of hatlessness. Prince Orange was the wearer of the largest hat on the field. Irreconcilable differences lead us to fight.

[@robertnett9793]

Indeed. You see, wearing a large and well visible hat, might get a confident man with a gun to think. What - he thinks - would happen if I use my gun to shoot a little at that guy with that large hat. He ought to be someone important. So making a hole in him, might change things in favor for me. Which is true especially in wartimes. And purely coincidental, wars tend to have a big surplus on men, confidence AND guns. Even Sharpe couldn't resist. It's just human nature you see. And that's why we don't have such large hats anymore. It's just too damn dangerous...

[@patrickporter1864]

A Prince raised in Englandand educated there. Did he go to Eton I wonder.

[@shartsmcginty8056]

What is hat but head persevering?

[@Holdit66]

The Battle of Haterloo.

[@peterclarke7240]

The trick is to get ballistic weave and a battered fedora early on.

[@Southern_Crusader]

Sharpe being told to put on a Dutch uniform was what killed him. Never ask them to give up their riflemen’s jacket!

[@ifv2089]

Top comment. Swift and Bold

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@ifv2089 It was not uncommon for officers to command other country's soldiers. For example Prince Willem Frederik (Later King of the Netherlands.) was with the Austrians in the Fifth Coalition.

[@Diablo_Himself]

"Let them wear the jackets that mean so much to them"

[@abedfo88]

"You Sir are a SILK STOCKING FULL OF SHIT". has got to go down as one of the top 5 classic Sharpe lines.

[@TheCrusader1000]

And so is his desendant. Our former PM David Cameron.

[@ApeX-pj4mq]

@@TheCrusader1000 Their related?

[@TheCrusader1000]

@@ApeX-pj4mq Yes. He's a Toff.

[@chucksilverstein3403]

Plagiarism! That was Napoleon’s insult to Talleyrand

[@theiran]

Well, I now have a new insult for snobby rich people...

[@DokkaChapman]

Loved the timing of the cannonball behind Sharp to keep the censors happy, that had to be award winning for sure!

[@thegray5730]

Paul Bettany truly is a top actor, he should have won the BAFTA for Master and Commander.

[@wakeoftheflood2]

"...a sort of fighting naturalist"

[@Vkj007]

@@wakeoftheflood2 M&C is the best movie

[@ViewtuberOG]

Name me after something prickly that's hard to eradicate.

[@viixy364]

I couldn't believe it when I realised it was him :D

[@misfit1978]

Omg no way!

[@Grymbaldknight]

"This is a hanging matter. You stay out of this, Patrick." "Aim for his belly."

[@bakersmileyface]

Hahahaha I love how the show started off as Sharpe being a Sergeant nobody. Someone who told his men to keep their heads down because Sir Arthur Wellesley was riding his horse nearby. And towards the end we have Colonel Sharpe doing this to a Prince.

[@Tea_and_Cake]

read the books, he really does start off as nobody

[@Tea_and_Cake]

@@jr5925 good meme gg

[@ThebigGisthebest]

as he says in the Irish brigade one, a bad officer is better off dead

[@alfieburns9019]

@@jr5925 Fighting off thousands of French soldiers with all the extras from Sharpe successfully. Now that's soldiering.

[@rando5638]

@@jr5925 Had us in the first half, ngl.

[@shaunpcoleman]

Sharpe is the only character that survived being portrayed by Sean Bean!

[@aceman67]

I suggest you rewatch "The Martian"

[@belphomet4397]

He was in the movie Troy and survived through the whole movie.

[@grezgorztube]

@@aceman67 His character's career was killed pretty spectacularly, which was the closest thing to an actual death of any character in that movie.

[@Wi11i4mJM]

He's doing ok in Snowpiercer but he will probably end up dead.

[@classicsmajor9699]

All are his character deaths are making up for all the times Sharpe should have died.

[@Rhondaandjames]

Historically This show is an abomination. Creatively its a friggin masterpiece. Extremely well written story and dialogue, Great acting.

[@Mat-eq8mk]

History is boring and full of nuance.

[@auzawandilaz6971]

@@Mat-eq8mkwrong

[@thesaltybrit9321]

​@@auzawandilaz6971it's subjective

[@peterwebb8732]

​@@Mat-eq8mkWrong... in many ways, history is more interesting, because we are dealing with real people and real consequences. Simple stories may please simple minds, but the reality is often complex. The British and their allies did not succeed through blind luck. They very much did value competence and promoted officers up from the ranks when apprropriate. Oh, and the Prince of Orange was very well liked, his good nature being proverbial. Not being the most rugged of physical specimens, his nickname was "Slender Billy" It's a poor scriptwriter who has to lie about people in order to make his characters interesting.

[@axonis2306]

It's terrible on every way.

[@DoctorProph3t]

Amazing Harper clicked instantly the sound of the Old Guard. Their chants coming from deep, raspy, smoke burned throats of middle aged men that’ve fought for, known of, or believed in nothing less than Napoleons vision of France their entire lives.

[@angelfan16]

The funny thing is Harper wouldn't know them. They fought in Eastern Europe mostly. The Iberian campaign saw the Young Guard and most of Napoleon's secondary units.

[@hairyneil]

I don't know about their entire lives. The revolution only got going in 1789, 29 years before Waterloo, and you had to be at least 35 to join in the old gaurd

[@The_OneManCrowd]

Nope, sorry. By this time they were mostly Dutch recruits as all of the Old Guard and the New Guard had all been killed or convalesced over the course of 15 years attrition.

[@decimated550]

That's soldiering!

[@DoctorProph3t]

It’s not a documentary, it’s a swashbuckling period drama starring Sean Bean. I also don’t think that Prince of Orange was shot by his own officer because he was an incompetent fop, William was beloved and admired for his tempered heart and wisdom.

[@dogbite5509]

Sharpe's insult of the Prince of Orange is a cinematic piece of Sheffield heritage - a land of proper men and proper soldiering.

[@spikespa5208]

A most conveniently timed explosion. Saved the censors from having to bleep it.

[@JohnFreedman0]

It was so good that the actor playing the Prince of Orange almost broke character. He stops himself from bursting out laughing at 3:55

[@DrCruel]

@@JohnFreedman0 Indeed. His flippant smirk actually helps.

[@ernstergarcia]

@@JohnFreedman0 that's mr. jennifer connelly, paul bettany.

[@borusa32]

and tea

[@michelveilleux1275]

"It's the French!" "My God, now they have guns." "They've always had guns your Highness, what they haven't always had was you as a target." Dear lord that's good. 🤣

[@boss-anova]

British humor is so very sardonic. I love it.

[@bermanmo6237]

The series made Prince William of Orange seemed like an complete idiot and military amateur. In reality, his multinational corp of Dutch and Belgian as well as the British contingent and the German contingent of the King's Legion, a unit of German troops from German principality such as Hannover under British command, were critical militarially as well as politically. Yes, the tv series might him and as unit look like idiots.

[@tgmccoy1556]

A "Pythonesque" exchange😂

[@MrBrachiatingApe]

If the French had known the measure of the Prince, they would have fired everywhere else, though, no?

[@davidsmirnoff98267]

Hugh Fraser played Wellington very well. He said that line so well it was hilarious 😂😂

[@alexsummers9140]

DID YOU NOTICE? When the guy says, "High cockolorum," Paul Bettany (Prince of Orange) smirks like he's trying not to laugh and break character.

[@raimundotorres44]

What does high cockolorum mean?

[@bananamontana3956]

It looks like it's in line with his character. He's arrogantly laughing at the idea but knows it's true.

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

@@raimundotorres44 silliness I suppose.

[@raimundotorres44]

@@LoudaroundLincoln thanks

[@zarakdurrani7584]

@@raimundotorres44 schmoozing with other elite, in this context it fits well because the Price of Orange is far removed from the vagaries of war while men around him suffer. He is basically immune to everything on account of being royalty. So he gets to go back and make "high cockalarum" while being unaffected by orders he impugns.

[@Elfenastics]

Is that Paul Betthay playing a whining arrogant prince? Now thats soldiering.

[@charlesholland4239]

You are a man of vision.........

[@vizpop18]

Vision...

[@AWMJoeyjoejoe]

I thought I recognized him!

[@JM-dy4ty]

Did anyone notice that at the beginning the Prince of Orange says “we’re fighting Boney” and claims he’s been seen, which garners a surprised “Has he been?” From Wellington as Napoleon was not even present at the Battle of Quatre Bras but instead Marshal Ney was in command.

[@bermanmo6237]

Just like most people think Napoleon directly lead men into battle. Yes, it was his Corp commanders like Ney that were directly involved in battle.

[@JM-dy4ty]

@@bermanmo6237 well during this time Napoleon was at Ligny

[@kogerugaming]

@@bermanmo6237 Well, Napoleon didnt lead charges, but he often put himself into the danger zone, commanding batteries aiming cannons etc.

[@yellowjackboots2624]

He was seen in that area the following day (the 17th), glimpsed by the British rearguards as the Allies were pulling back to Waterloo.

[@johnnymcblaze]

@@bermanmo6237 Actually, there were a few times Napoleon was in direct command of his entire army. In his early years, and later at times when his troop numbers were low. He always won at such times.

[@Billyg215]

Loved watching Sharpe and still do. All of the actors played their parts brilliantly.

[@joeszymaszek1146]

I love Rebeque’s subtle shaking of his head when Wellington asks “Has he been?”

[@Diablo_Himself]

DOGGETT!

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

We all know that it all started with the Prince asking Sharpe to put on a Dutch uniform.

[@bermanmo6237]

The Duke of Wellington said in the opening scene that the Prince William of Orange asked for experienced officers that can help his inexperienced army. He said he gave them Sharpe and that other English officer that I can't remembered his name. Yes, the Prince did have a experienced officer as his military advice. He is just like Sharpe, an experienced military officer who personally hated serving under his aristocrats, but it is a job that pays well. Yes, we have these same types of jobs today where retired military officers would be hired as military advisors to a foreign army. Not any different that our countries sent retired military officers to help allied armies. Some of them are current military officers. You will see the same thing later on in Japan. Today, we would have companies like Blackwater or in the case of the Russian Wegner group, directly involved in the conflict.

[@marfdasko]

@Proli even though the 95th wore a Hannoverian uniform...

[@mark10test3]

I don't mind men running, as long as they come back! Classic!

[@jamesmasonaltair]

Sharpe and his men remind me of 11b's and 0311's today. The combat rifleman. How much has really changed for the infantry in a couple centuries? Tech has advanced, but the thoughts and feelings of Sharpe and his men are still echoed by infantry today.

[@Chris66able]

Hilarious.

[@mikehenthorn1778]

Kipling would say the same. It's tommy this and Tommy that , Tommy move behind, But it is a thin line of heros ....

[@nautifella]

@@mikehenthorn1778 .... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an` Chuck him out, the brute! " But it's " Saviour of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot; _Nothing has changed_

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

The thing is, the riflemen of the time and the light infantry were trained in a manner not too different from todays grunts. Throw some cammies on them and give them M16's and they'd get on just fine today.

[@grindstone4910]

Always been that way when there's a separation of the officer corps and the enlisted corps.

[@sid35gb]

Bleeping out the swearing with cannon fire now that’s Soldiering.

[@banditothedorito7082]

All I got out of it was “Twat”

[@ciamciaramcia99]

@@banditothedorito7082 I think it was "royal twat". Funny that you can better hear the second part, since in Britain you can say twat on telly, but never "royal twat", cause the queen would not be amused.

[@DrewSavo]

A combination of lip reading and reviewing the script gave me the quote. With a two finger salute you say ‘F*** y*u your Royal High Twat’

[@MrChisleblast]

​@@ciamciaramcia99the queen is dead

[@DrewSavo]

What he actually said is “F*@# you, your Royal High Tw@t!”

[@sarahhempenstall6806]

Strange that the books and series misrepresented the Dutch and William so badly; in truth they were effective allies and the Battle of Quatre Bras was instrumental to the victory.

[@felixjohnsens3201]

The same goes for the Prussians...

[@grezgorztube]

The thing is, when you charge the facts that much, it doesn't even look like you're trying to make them look bad. It just becomes obvious that it was a fictional portrayal, meant to represent what SOME nobles/ princes were like, but not necessarily trying to make the Dutch or Prince William look bad. The author may have chosen the Dutch precisely because there is no significant racial or nationalist tensions between the British and the Dutch currently. He clearly wasn't trying to portray any particular country or ethnic group badly or anything like that. There are a wide variety of good, bad, and mediocre officers from all of the countries which were most often represented in these stories (namely British, French, and Spanish).

[@kirastephenson7510]

I think part of it is a running theme that we see while following Sharpe's story from sergeant all the way up to lieutenant colonel, that theme being how those in power really don't have a clue what they are doing. Commissions were bought, not earned. We saw it time and again that it was the non-commissioned officers, those who had fought their way up the chain of command, that were the most successful leaders.

[@richardhockey8442]

@@kirastephenson7510 an infantryman's boon - useless officers leading the enemy.. an infantryman's doom - your own officers are useless

[@SebastiaanHolStadsgids]

@@kirastephenson7510 & ​ @Deus Ex Machina, that's also the reason why the Brittish failed so bad in the First Boer War. Noblemen with no military expertise and a lot of arrogance, making a sort of holiday trip to exotic Africa. Going into ambush after ambush by Boers or Zulu's, who knew the terrain and had something to fight for...

[@favre4ever39]

Shooting an incompetent officer now that's fragging.

[@davidminer7233]

What does "frasgging" mean ?

[@joshme3659]

@@davidminer7233shooting an incompetent officer

[@willmcdonald81]

Thank you for skipping over that scene with Harris and Hagman. Still heartbreaking after all this time

[@dinodob4430]

I'm a huge fan of Sharpe, and I love Paul Bettany, but the Prince of Orange storyline was a misfire for me. I know Sharpe's not supposed to be realistic, but they pushed things too far with this storyline. I do love this show and I miss it.

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

@Kabuki Kitsune he kept ordering his men into line while enemy cavalry were about.. so yeah most of them got massacred.. He did this several times!! Honest he French did us a favour when he was wounded and left the field

[@bermanmo6237]

Well, the Prince of Orange has had the command of a multinational army corp of British, Belgian, Dutch, and German soldiers. I guess you need some level of competence of keeping it together. I guess you can saw the same for Eisenhower. More of an administrator. He rely on battlefield generals like Patton to do the fighting. Yes, he too was in command of a multinational army. Had to make sure everyone is happy and all the egos in check. Not to mentioned the constant rivalry between Patton and English Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. Not to mentioned dealing with Roosevelt, Churchill, and Charles De Gaulle. Probably enough headache just dealing with these egos. Guess sort of like what Wellington dealt with. You sort of get an impression from the tv character, he rather deal with the British Army only that the Dutch as well as the Allied Army. You also sort of got the impression, he also had the same headache dealing with the Spanish partisans in Spain when they were both fighting Napoleon there.

[@marfdasko]

@@ComradeCommissarYuri this is absolute tosh

[@OneofInfinity.]

@@ComradeCommissarYuri Making it up as you write I see.

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

@@OneofInfinity. better king than commander they say

[@ChrisVillagomez]

Paul Bettany trying not to laugh when he's accused of playing high cockalorum is one of the greatest behind-the-scenes facts honestly 💀💀💀

[@jamesoncatlett6784]

“Keep out of it!” “…aim for his belly”

[@b.elzebub9252]

It's an entertaining show, but they really did the Prince of Orange dirty in it. In reality he was at the very least a competent commander, who contributed greatly to the eventual French defeat with his actions at the Battle of Quatre Bras. He went against Wellington's order to retreat and bought the allies crucial time. Wellington could not afford to place just any random mad aristocrat in command of an entire Corps. And sources indicate Wellington had a high opinion of the Prince. Noting that he was well liked by all.

[@TonyTylerDraws]

This happened in Band of Brothers, too. They need to make Winters seem perfect, so they did the other commanders dirty. It makes for good TV even if it isn’t true.

[@BaronsHistoryTimes]

Exactly. He served as a young ADC to Wellington in the Peninsular War from 1811 - he was no idiot or newbie, he was a seasoned veteran soldier by 1815.

[@ryancrist9565]

I never knew that Hastings fought in the Napoleonic wars before going on to be a lievtenant/captain in the Great War. And then he went on to solve crimes with Poirot up to the 2nd World War. The man ages incredibly well.

[@SplendidFactor]

Uxbridge's actor is Neil Dickson. He voices a bunch of haughty high Elves in Skyrim. I thought that voice was familiar.

[@visayanmissnanny2.076]

Damn, helping the Empire to suppress Talos worshipers, now that's soldiering

[@KopperNeoman]

The Empire was doing a mighty fine job letting people worship Talos in peace until George Stormcloak came along and got them to come to Skyrim. The Thalmor consider his little revolutionary army an asset!

[@paulmccloud9395]

I remember him from the 80's movie, Biggles. A guilty pleasure movie.

[@MongooseTacticool]

He has a hell of a fine jawline.

[@luciusvorenus9445]

He also played Valerius in the miniseries "A.D."

[@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM]

I never noticed this until now, but you can see Paul about to laugh at 3:56

[@Epic-pf8od]

When I first saw that, I thought it was him scoffing / smiling in mockery, as if he found the situation amusing.

[@Crispy_Bee]

I assume it was the "High Cockelorum" that broke him - really quite funny

[@stevehollahan3533]

"A good soldier fights and runs away-lives to fight another day."

[@robleary3353]

Love the reaction from the 'Red coats' especially the one standing next to the mounted officer. That 'oh seriously' look!. They all know Sharpes reputation!.... No one moves!.

[@fervidGOOBY]

I shall use “high cockalorum” in a sentence today!

[@theoriginalrudeboy2916]

@Colin Killian Indeed my good sir

[@thRegimentofFootThethRifles]

Did you?

[@bermanmo6237]

It just means you are at a fancy party wearing fancy clothes with all the really good and fancy food and drinks sucking up to rich and important people.

[@Diablo_Himself]

You just did, technically.

[@fervidGOOBY]

@@Diablo_Himself So I did! 😁

[@german-engineering1963]

Paul Bettany is remarkable playing the arrogant role of the prince. He is amazing playing the ship doctor in another Napoleonic war flick "Master & Commander".

[@BlackDiamond2718]

Russel crowe was badass

[@B-A-L]

This is one of the best pieces of writing ever, managing to seemless combine fact with fiction! I just wish we could have afforded to make a big screen version of Sharpe's Waterloo to celebrate the 200th anniversary in 2015.

[@OneofInfinity.]

The depictions are pure fiction, hardly the first historical battle partially shown in the series, nothing new.

[@ariedijker2911]

Truth? This episode is an embarrassment to the Belgians and Dutch who sacrificed themselves on the battlefield. Certainly for the Prince of Orange who was wounded in the last battle and was won by General Chasse's own initiative. These soldiers and their Dutch commanders saved the English from defeat. There was no Wellington or Sharpe in sight here.🌷

[@BaseDeltaZero1972]

@@ariedijker2911 Like Private Hook was maligned as a criminal but heroic alcoholic in Zulu. The real Hook never had a drink in his life and was a gentleman and a pillar of his community.

[@goldenshoggoth2143]

@@BaseDeltaZero1972 almost like people shouldn't expect movies to be a wealth of historical fact. almost like they made to be more entertaining than informative.

[@Rob2000]

@@goldenshoggoth2143 Still without the Dutch Quatre Brass would have been lost and the whole battle. Read Wellington's Hidden Heroes. Even the Prince was not the fool portrait here. All is from the diorama made just after the battle by the English. It contains a lot of errors, but still those errors made it in history. Wellington lost the battle of Waterloo, his allies did win it.

[@captainnolan5062]

Bernard Cornwell's inaccurate portrayal of the Dutch Soldiers (who fought well and bravely at Quatre Bras) and the Prince of Orange and his staff and other officers (who by deciding [against Wellington's wishes] to fight at Quatre Bras saved the campaign for the allies) are not appreciated. The 5th Dutch militia put in an amazing performance for a 'green' unit and their Colonel [Westenberg] did an amazing job.

[@timcollins5261]

Came here to make the comment - Rebecque probably saved the campaign for the allies at Quatre Bras and the Dutch/Belgium troops fought well.

[@DaveDexterMusic]

I appreciate the portrayal very much because it's fucking fictional

[@captainnolan5062]

. @DaveDexterMusic You may appreciate it, but you should know that it is British propaganda which has been perpetuated from 1815 until now, and Cornwall is the current perpetrator. Side note: It is supposed to be 'historical fiction', which usually inserts fictional characters into actual history (rather than either poorly researched or deliberately misleading facts). Also, he does the same thing in his "history" of the battle, somewhat misleadingly titled: "Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles."

[@patrickporter1864]

Where the English at Waterloo.

[@captainnolan5062]

@@patrickporter1864 There were some English at Waterloo, but they were greatly outnumbered by Dutch and German troops

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

Sharpe'd be good as a manager on a Supermarket shopfloor, cares more aboit his staff and getting the he job done than some incompetant superior.

[@barrymatthews6454]

Just like Aldi and Lidl do for their staff they thrive on loyalty from staff and customers unlike other U.K. supermarkets

[@flankspeed]

HERE WE MAKE PROPER BREWS!

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

@Nines But his area manager is don't like his approach.

[@harrisonrawlinson5650]

Sharpe would be kind of supervisor you’d want to work for. He’d stand up to the middle management

[@ymca4547]

I worked in Retail for 15 years. Having worked for one the "Big 3" for most of that time I can tell you that a manager, no matter how pally you are with them, they're first loyalty is to the company and not you. One of the first things I was taught at the beginning by older staff - that managers are not your friends.

[@crimsonknight7011]

Prince of Orange sure lacked VISION.

[@crimsonknight7011]

@Proli the joke I was making is that he is the same actor that plays Vision in the Marvel movies

[@andychantrey9582]

Haha, I see what you did there

[@andygass9096]

its complete rubbish, in the real world, the Prince of Orange was a brave and effective commander. You never here Wellington criticising him.

[@hankrearden20]

🤦

[@bermanmo6237]

The actor that played the Prince of Orange, Paul Bethany, is the same guy that played Vision in the marvel movies as well as the Wandavision tv show.

[@Wooster23]

Giving a detailed explanation of a historical event. Now that's history-ing.

[@azzaro714]

3:20 damn that scene makes me cry about what happened next

[@Diablo_Himself]

"We're going back" - Hagman's last words to Sharpe.

[@nikk94boiboi43]

Warhammer40k Gaunts ghost was influenced by Sharpe and I'm happy for it such a great read. I should start the Sharpe series aswell.

[@antonkrieg3708]

Is that so? Praise the Emperor!

[@Diablo_Himself]

Is that the new Space Marine one? Play WarHammer 40,000 Fire Warrior. Its a much better game.

[@TheNotoriousCheeto]

All these years and I just noticed: Sharpe's Rifles, when meeting Hagman and Harris: "Chosen Men? Well, I didn't choose you." Waterloo: "They were mine! I chose them." Character development; now that's soldiering.

[@stephenbarnigham5192]

Ha,ha, absolutely mate! Proper soldering! 😆

[@DrewSavo]

He may not have chosen to be given them, but he did choose to keep them as his trusted comrades.

[@spudhead169]

"High Cockalorum", that's now in my vocabulary reserved for special occasions.

[@julianmhall]

Interesting to note. I hadn't actually noticed until I re read it the other day, but Harris is not in the original book, and Sharpe was there when Hagman died. They weren't the reason Sharpe went after the Young Frog.

[@andrewkirkland1452]

If you are talking about the prince of orange he was Dutch not French. The clue is in the name.

[@julianmhall]

@@andrewkirkland1452 I know that and you know that, but that doesn't change the fact that his father the King was called the Old Frog, and his son the Young Frog. That we know the nicknames were ignorant doesn't change them.

[@anenglishmaninsandiego]

The moment at 03:56 where you have to decide whether Paul Bettany is breaking character or it's full Prince Of Orange that he's going with. Either way, the director and the editor decided to keep it in!

[@morbius109]

You have to love just how unimpressed and annoyed Wellington seems to be having to endure the presence the Prince of Orange.

[@ilsagutrune2372]

Orange had been around before. he made mistakes during the 100 days, it is true. his biggest mistake was that people would not forgive him for being bisexual.

[@benisrood]

@@ilsagutrune2372 Yeah right

[@ilsagutrune2372]

@@benisrood you have read somewhere that his being bisexual was not a life long problem politically? He was not great general, but he suffers from a few things.. being bisexual and no being British

[@rgwholt]

I just love the way these things were done on the cheap and with total disregard for historical accuracy . They are just stories but reading some of the comments some actually do believe this is how it was , which is rather sad.

[@APZachariah]

If only every officer has such concerns.

[@anomalyp8584]

"I DECLARE TOO MUCH!" is a line i'm gonna add to my vocab from now on.

[@jodofe4879]

As much as I like this series, they really did the Prince of Orange dirty. Historically he was known for his personal courage and very popular with the British forces.

[@eamonmcdermott4032]

Oliver Tobias' expression when Sharpe insults the Prince, always makes me chuckle.

[@archaeoman70]

Not giving up your green jacket for a different uniform? Now that's soldiering.

[@nooneyouknow2420]

Sharpe is the Chuck Norris of British soldiering.

[@Freddie1980]

In real life Wellington had a personal grudge with Uxbridge as Uxbridge at one point was having an affair with the wife of Wellingtons brother Henry Wellesley and it was due to this why you never saw him in the peninsular war. In fact in the film 'Waterloo' Wellington who was played by Christopher Plummer calls him 'adulterous rouge' behind his back which was a reference to his many affairs. If should be pointed out as well that in real life the Prince of Orange fought bravely at Waterloo and survived and wasn't a cowardly buffoon as he is portrayed here.

[@tacitus6384]

2:28 I think Sharpe said "Have a jolly good day, old chap!"

[@TomeAlone]

With Sharpe's Assassin now released will we finally see some hype/traction for a new mini series or 2 parter with the man himself returning as Sharpe??? Or do I need to rewatch Chronicles of Frankenstein to pretend we have another Sharpe adventure! 😏

[@davidvalter1936]

Is there another book? They should definitely do a big budget series. Like game of thrones but obviously ending.

[@TheNotoriousCheeto]

Pretend? The character in Frankenstein was a former rifleman with the 95th who fought under Wellington. Even the Pattern 1796 heavy cavalry saber makes an appearance. There is no way that isn't Sharpe; he is just using a fake name.

[@chickenfist1554]

I've never managed to work out what Sharpe said to the Prince due to that cannon blast!

[@FrontSideBus]

Now that's soldiering!

[@captgiraffe6468]

I love the "has he been"? While looking at the 2nd in command who gives the slightest shake of the head

[@Ikonicre_Moonshield]

Hilarious, even if the series is incredibly slanted against anything not in British uniform. Willem II was a funny guy, he got extorted into making the Netherlands a constitutional monarchy by Thorbecke. Wellington later on remarks about the Prussians: "Let's see if we can find something useful for them to do." Wellington's mixed army holds their ground and repels French attacks, but is in no position whatsoever to counterattack. Until the Prussians get there in force and engage, the French break and it's a victory.

[@Waltonet93]

4:02 - The look on Rebecque’s face. He knows he’s about to do Orange a dirty 😂

[@pa5287]

such a great series dont make them like this anymore

[@scottfoster2639]

What a great series that was.

[@skapunker1986]

5:30 "they were my soldiers, i choose them," No Sharpe, they were "Chosen" men already by Major Dunnet/Captain Murray, you were just lucky u were assigned to this whole excisting "chosen" group by Hogan. I so vividly remember how Sharpe told every member of the "Chosen" group that "He" did not "Choose" them, in the first episode.

[@DoctorProph3t]

That’s called character development.

[@TonySpike]

Even vision couldnt survive sharpe, he was inevitable 😂

[@kamion53]

funny to see "the hero of Quatre Bras" portraited as a prickish fool. He seems to have had quite a reputation in those days, but later on prooved to be a rather unstable king.

[@marfdasko]

I think you may be confusing him for his son William III. That was the king who suffered of mental instability.

[@kamion53]

@@marfdasko mental stability was not the strongest point in the House or Orange-Nassau. William III was also mental instable and his daughter Wilhelmina talked with "ancesters"

[@ariedijker2911]

That is not entirely true. The kingship was changed in his time. NL then became a parliamentary democracy. Thorbecke arranged this.

[@isaackellogg3493]

Prince William of Orange (future King William II of the Netherlands) was 23 here, and is played by the 26 year old Paul Bettany. Quite apart from his portrayal here, he was very popular with the British for his courage and good nature. Perhaps we must concede that Sharpe is not a very reliable narrator.

[@jctripplesticks]

Few realize that that's Paul Bettany. It's so different to hear him yelling and with loads of hair

[@Talsedoom]

The lvl of British energy in this 6 minutes is over 9000!

[@oldcodgerplaysgames9610]

When there are more officers on screen than troops, that's budget cutting

[@bridgecross]

4:48 a wee bit of Boromir there

[@stefanfilipovits21]

He had it comin’

[@jimmydaddo9357]

Those fancy hats make great target markers

[@yoloswaggins1579]

Minecraft death sound at 4:56

[@ShasOSwoll]

"I don't mind men running so long as they come back!" Me playing Total War

[@sledgehammer9739]

The Prince of Orange might not have been a great commander, but he was much better than his older brother; The Prince of Grapefruit. He wasn't quite as good as his third cousin on his mothers side; The Earl of Watermelon 🍉.

[@forexed8948]

Everyone knows the legend of the Earl of Watermelon, how he slew a dozen French hussars, and in a near suicidal charge, led his guards to capture a battery of French Artillery at Waterloo.

[@countiblis1246]

...and as for his sister Princess Peach and her legendary scrap against that giant Gorilla, the less said the better.

[@Hamishtarah]

01:47 love this "They've akways had guns your royal highness, what they haven't always had is you as a target"

[@jameslynn7271]

The moment you figured out that MCUs The Vision was once the Prince of Orange in the Sharpe series!

[@gyroscope915]

Using artillery to cover up the sounds of swearing. That's a new one. Creative

[@TKPETERTJE]

It's a bloody disgrace. It was the Dutch-Belgians that saved Wellingtons ass from being whipped by Napoleon at Quatre-Bras but you don't read that in the English journals. According to Siborne, they did it all by them selves. Well, the last 5 minutes the Pruisians helped a little bit.

[@ariedijker2911]

Michiel de Ruyter, the English just can't get over this embarrassment.

[@ariedijker2911]

@Stanly Stud It's about how this series portrays the Prince of Orange as a totally incompetent commander and how viewers who know nothing about this battle get a completely wrong image about him. Was Wellington a good commander? Without the Prince there was no Quatre-Bras and Marshal Ney could have joined Napoleon and defeated the Prussians completely and Wellington had already lost the war by then. The distrust of foreign allied troops nearly cost Wellington the victory. It was the Belgians and Dutch troops who at the last moment rescued the English at La Haye Sainte, by General Chasse who opened the attack here with his own insight, so without command from Wellington who had no confidence in this general, a Dutchman with a French name, and served in France for 5 years. The Prince and General Chasse, by their own initiative, made the most important decisions of this battle without Wellington. The Prince was commanded by Wellington, but the battle took place in the Netherlands. As a result, they were much better informed about the best locations to fight and when. The English soldiers fought hard. As a Dutchman I must say, these soldiers deserved a better not narrow-minded and looking at our time, racist commander.🌷

[@ariedijker2911]

@Stanly Stud My plumber and installer is Scottish and hard as F and he is the best man in the world, his name Carry Miller. He was the only one who could repair my caravan with an English central heating boiler, which I bought in England. He is my hero. P.s I like bagpipe music a lot and watch the homecoming of scots on you tube. We own a barbershop and I'm as sharp as a fedder's knife.🤣🌷

[@Pitcairn2]

@@ariedijker2911 I wasnt there so I am not embarrassed at all. So nothing to get over.

[@ariedijker2911]

@@Pitcairn2 Be glad you weren't there.

[@renrenfrey498]

Doggert deserves an Oscar for managing to say cockalorum without cracking up. No matter how many takes they did.

[@NationalDevin]

It's been bothering me today, but I found out it's actually "Prince of Oranje"

[@Stefanius058]

Oranje is orange in dutch

[@Daktangle]

PoO: "We're fighting Bonni you know?" Wellington: "No!? Really!?"

[@Daktangle]

I only just noticed that most of the insult Sharpe says to the PoO is censored by the explosions, except for twat. XD

[@migmadmarine]

was this the first "fragging"?🤔

[@hannibalburgers477]

According to sharpe, not the first. "We've klled officers in blue coats, officers in white coats and even officers in red coats."

[@stvdagger8074]

The term fragging had not yet been coined. It was a product of the 20th Century. However, I am sure that 3000 years ago some frustrated Babylonian or Assyrian soldier had enough of an incompetent or overly harsh officer and plunged a bronze spear into his guts. Or maybe, it was first done even earlier in the Stone Age for example.

[@pablojn4826]

@@hannibalburgers477 If Sharpe did that he probably would have contributed to a French victory in Waterloo. Because Plot points don't work in real life

[@edl617]

Wonderful shot

[@ariedijker2911]

Yes. In the back. Nice. Like a hero.

[@AaronHungwell]

Ned Stark shot Vision!

[@sn00ke]

4:01 *"I don't care that you broke your elbow"*

[@honestabe1940]

God, it's like a Monty Python comedy!

[@f1matt]

Shooting the Prince of Orange? Now that's soldiering.

[@Kelly14UK]

Ponce! Perfumed ponce!

[@ianbrewer4843]

Great show

[@brucetucker4847]

Sharpe failed to recognize the prince's vital contributions to British naval intelligence, as well as his contributions to botany.

[@fredsmith3575]

At least the Prince of Orange was near the battle.The Prince of Wales was safely in England

[@schachmaster]

"*well placed censorship cannon* you twat!"😆

[@user-yp9nz6bs9q]

Great film editing job.

[@drPiotrNapieraa]

it's not sure if he killed him, just made him unable to endanger the tactics

[@fortusvictus8297]

@Kabuki Kitsune By all accounts I have seen the Prince was wounded advancing an attack ahead of his troops, thus he may have been wounded by either the enemy or his own side on the advance.

[@willietorben560]

Sharpe has these small moments of glorious acting. 0:29, and 0:35/0:41 ("Sir are you smirking at me?" - "No your Royal Twatness I am merely picking some food crumbs from the corner of my mouth.")