The French Cavalry Ambush The British | Sharpe

Sharpe witnesses an ambush & has to make a tough decision.
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In the Peninsular War, a British sergeant is field promoted to a lieutenant in charge of a disrespectful rifle company.

[@SharpeOfficial]

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[@TheCormTube]

Sharpe - Throws rock, throws knife, suffocates Frenchman Theresa - I've found my man

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Perhaps she was also impressed by his pragmatism in not fighting the main body earlier - to a guerrilla fighter it would definitely be the correct decision.

[@GillsFan91]

Rising from a Colonel of a Rifle Battalion to being the Prince Regent, now that's soldiering.

[@jakebattleday8211]

Hahaha

[@williamberne]

A dead colonel even.

[@chadreactions]

Major

[@geoffreycarson2311]

TO BEING A FRIEND OF!!!!the PRINCE REGENT 😮g

[@JM-dy4ty]

He’s a Major

[@notmenotme614]

I love how someone plays the guitar every time she speaks Spanish.

[@MongooseTacticool]

The guitar work in general is excellent though :)

[@cloroxusthestainlessone4324]

@@simonlaw9234 I'm now blasting Rule Britannia at any one I talk to. Making society better one choice at a time

[@Bryt25]

@@simonlaw9234 The Goon Show would play bagpipes whenever Scotland yard was depicted...

[@DaveDexterMusic]

I mean it happens once

[@almirante_kiko]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Tap-a-roo]

Sharpe's first real order as a Lieutenant was to tell his men to stand down, so they didn't die needlessly in a heroic, but hopeless action.

[@spamhonx56]

I can't believe it took me this long to work out why, of all the rifles, perkins wasn't a chosen man- this is why. The chosen men were sharpe's command, and perkins was only there because they rescued him.

[@serene_actual]

What? Perkins became chosen man after he shot a French officer who was in a fair duel with Sharpe, the Frenchie went dirty and dishonest and Perkins shot him. Then Sharpe gave him the special ribbon thingy and he became chosen man.

[@TheCormTube]

The look between Harper and Sharpe when he saves Perkins and gives the boy something to focus on, subtle acting nuance.

[@reenactingaddict1372]

Now I feel bad for what I do to the retreating enemy in Napoleon Total War.

[@M0rmagil]

Light Cav, the proper tool to take advantage of a route. 😁

[@ChaseMcCain81]

Lol

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@M0rmagil The only true use for cavalry in Napoleon Total War.

[@JevansUK]

Why have to defeat them twice?

[@Dylan_Goodboy]

@@JonatasAdoM not true they are great for ambushes like in the video lmao

[@goodbanter4427]

Riflemen camping in an open field without infantry support? Basically asking to get charged by cavalry

[@michaelswann9227]

@Marshall Carwood maybe they lacked the numbers to form a viable square. Also they were taken by surprise which does not allow time to form square.

[@resopo1948]

@@michaelswann9227 Most of them did not even have their rifles on them when they were ambushed.

[@marcusguanio1290]

@Marshall Carwood No rifles had bayonet sockets, So Forming Square is useless without bayonets,

[@paddy1389]

Baker rifles were issued with 24 inch sword bayonets, Brown Bess muskets were issued regular socket bayonets

[@marcusguanio1290]

@@paddy1389 but still, baker Rifles cannot shoot when it is equipped with the sword

[@tomservo5347]

I can't find the scene but I remember Hagman falling down in the mud and Sharpe still being new is dismissing him as too old-to which Hagman states he kept his rifle out of the mud. Sharpe helps pull him up and they start chatting about old wounds that bother them. Great scene showing how the Chosen Men and Sharpe started developing into an inseparable team.

[@mreagle4798]

It is this episode but abit later on

[@CarzorStelatis]

3:00 Suffering a head wound from a rock that hits your forage cap about 4 inches above the top of your head? Now that's soldiering.

[@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870]

That's a shako, not a forage cap

[@dolsopolar]

@@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870 Czapka, to be more precise.

[@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870]

@@dolsopolar True

[@HenriHerbert88]

I think this is the best episode of the series.

[@NapoleonAquila]

I think you Brits have bad taste, this serie smell the cheap acting etc.... And crappy french bashing Anyway similar to the soviet movie "Battle of Berlin" Seriously even the "frenches" in the serie don't look french at all. Did you engage Syrian migrants guys?

[@NapoleonAquila]

@@HenriHerbert88 bonjour le mauvais goût, à moins ce soit juste pour mater la série z de Boromir. Eh ben pour un "Français" je t'ai confondu pour un anglois originaire de Normandie comme à l'époque d'Henry V, enfin bref un collabo car il y a français et "français" aujourd'hui.

[@rc59191]

@@NapoleonAquila of course the frog would hate a good quality show about them getting knocked out of Spain. This is one of the greatest shows and book series of all time the love it continues to get today is proof of that.

[@horatio655]

@@NapoleonAquila Making a frog seethe, now that’s soldiering.

[@charlieross-BRM]

When the Rifles learned Sharpe is a leader and a killer. That's the look Harper got from the other soldier as the clip wrapped up. I can't remember all their names - it's been ages since I last binged through the whole series.

[@jediknight129]

that and the understanding that he gave the injured an excuse that saves fave.

[@robplazzman6049]

After Waterloo the British were so impressed by the Polish lancers they formed their own regiment. And as part of the uniform the British troopers wore the square topped ‘Chapka’. Watch “ The charge of the light brigade”. Featuring a fatal charge by 600 light cavalry again Russian guns. Made in the mid 60s but still a great film.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Lancers had a better chance at breaking infantry squares than other types of cavalry had, as the lance could outreach fixed bayonets on muskets. Even so, they were unable to break squares at Waterloo - at least one French (or Polish?) lancer hurled his lance, transfixing one of the British soldiers in a square - the lancer's fate is not recorded. The advantages of lancers were clear even before Waterloo. In one French engagement with Austrians in rainy weather, it was at first stalemate because the Austrian infantry square could not fire as the rain prevented the powder from igniting, but French cavalry were deterred by their bayonets. Then some lancers attacked the Austrians and quickly broke up the square.

[@robplazzman6049]

@@stevekaczynski3793 I believe Polish lancers also broke a British infantry square in the Peninsular war in Spain, although I forget the details. Out of interest, my father was in the 3rd Carpathian lancers (attached to the British army) in WW2. Although they stuck him in a Sherman !

[@mjc8281]

The history of the British lancers are pretty interesting, as the British army had had lancer regiments throughout the early-mid 1700s but by the late 1700s they had all been converted into light dragoons....It wasn't until after Waterloo that they reintroduced them and as you point out like the Hussar regiments they took on a very distinctive look which was copied from other nations.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@robplazzman6049- Not sure they broke a square, but at the battle of Albuera in 1811, the Vistula lancers caught a British brigade from the flank unawares and destroyed three of the four regiments.

[@VersusARCH]

3:16 - the guy must have had a bad case of cold. Otherwise he would have breathed throug his nose...

[@kyle18934]

I think sharpe was trying to break his neck not smother him

[@kyle18934]

Never mind lol his nose is only for smells not for breathing

[@marcusguanio1290]

Try breaking his Jaw?

[@MichaelLee-tt7gm]

His nostrils are full of blood after being knocked off his horse by the rock.

[@MateusVIII]

French noses are used only for sound effects in coversations and smelling garlic. You can't breathe through them.

[@333Revolver333]

0:53 When your Guns of Infinity character fails the charisma and soldiering checks...

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

Chosen Man Perkins. Trying to save others right from the start. The best die young, it seems.

[@Rorynes]

The first TV series/movie that Sean Bean has survived till the end.

[@AndrewAMartin]

Karma has been balancing things out since then...

[@AggroInChina]

Love the fact Sharpe gets the standard back

[@Nikkiexx1]

1:28 is a perfect example of a character realising "Oope! I'm dead now!"

[@isq2242]

Sean Bean was saying "oh my god" because the people who were skirmishers don't know how to fight against Calvary

[@libertinarey]

I think they did but they were caught in the open and didn't have time to form up (the guy who said "rifles to me" presumably tried to get them to form up but it was far too late) and it seemed half of them at least were trying to disperse and seek cover. Either way they were fucked, skirmish infantry caught out by cavalry in the open like that at such close range was disastrous, the one time i know it happened during the rl napaleonic wars, which the 95th (the green jackets here) witnessed was that of a fellow light infantry regiment suffering it. They got wiped out completely, an experience that stayed with the 95th soldiers so much that years later at waterloo, when the 95th were on the receiving end of a cavalry charge, many veteran 95th soldiers turned and fled expecting it to be a similar massacre. Fortunately for those that stayed though they bunched up in time into a square and were able to repel the french cavalry with minimal casualties somehow.

[@TinyTalesBookClub]

Huh, I thought it was because he realized he was in the wrong place and didn't die when he was supposed to... instead of reshooting the scene they just rolled with it.

[@just4laughs76]

@@isq2242 *sword

[@JoeBlac]

@@TinyTalesBookClub Death never made that mistake again.

[@ethanniblock5341]

@@just4laughs76 No, it's a bayonet and I'm pretty sure they can't be attached to rifles, only muskets.

[@johncheetham4607]

It's a good reminder. Appreciate the upload.

[@leoi6]

1:32 legit sounds like Gordon Ramsay

[@IvanKala]

Sean Bean lives..oh that's something new

[@franciscoscaramanga9396]

Suffocating someone without covering their nose? Now that's soldiering.

[@easterbunny3850]

He was mouthbreather))

[@chuck430]

for the longest time i thought the guy saying "young Perkins, sir" 2:40 was Jimmy McNulty in The Wire.

[@patrickkelly7085]

The bald guy who died with the spear in his hand wrote "Downton Abbey"

[@thejudge-kv2jk]

Really? Shame this wasn't real then.

[@drunkenbarbarian8211]

@@thejudge-kv2jk lol

[@Gladiator0719]

Guidon, not spear... Julian Fellowes is his name.

[@AJMoore101]

@@thejudge-kv2jk 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👏👏👏

[@stuartsamuel1879]

​@@Gladiator0719 Closer to the truth, but really, 'Colours'. They're not American.

[@piggypoo]

wow, some of those sequences were dangerous!

[@christmar67]

Polish cavalry , Poland was allied with Napoléon

[@hosank]

Uhlans

[@veronicadredd22]

you are not far off , the show was filmed in The Ukraine

[@g00gleminus96]

Technically they were Uhlans of the Army of the Duchy Of Warsaw but yeah, Polish.

[@krzysztoflanger6015]

Niestety, Polacy byli dla Napoleona tylko mięsem armatnim, który wykorzystał ich naiwność

[@gervaisdebazoches1889]

Oui. Mon capitaine.

[@nickmcmahon623]

Loved Sharpe but the budget was so shit, battle of Waterloo fought by two armies of fifty men. Sean Bean nails it though. Bastard!

[@MichaelGThomas]

It was quite a high budget series for the 90s. Especially the final episodes.

[@whitewolf7662]

Dies as a major and comes back as the prince of walle's AMAZING

[@juancarlosdegoya2757]

1:41 one of the few times you will hear an actual spanish accent in this series

[@michaelbarker3078]

It hurts that your actually right

[@Mannydamon]

Mexicans speak better Spanish

[@OberonXXXXXX]

@@Mannydamon spanish always speaks english with dogs

[@nqh4393]

How Sean Bean survived this is beyond me...

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

3:15 if only these foreigners knew how to breathe through their nose....

[@druisteen]

This is a movie ( a Tv series )

[@omo9131]

Yeah cause Breathing though nose while being strangle will keep you alive😂

[@SimplyVanis]

@Baron Von Grijffenbourg Don't you see he had cold? You clearly cant breathe if your nose is blocked...

[@terrortorn]

They are French. They drive on the wrong side of the road and only use their noses for smelling wine and sniffing bums.

[@marebalvan7963]

Maybe his nose was stuffy

[@darianvaldez4044]

I could've wished to seen this whole company of rifles to be shown in the series.

[@Mackinstyle]

I have this sense that in real cavalry battles, horses got intentionally stabbed a whole lot more than they can/will show on TV.

[@umeda777]

French Calvary and Polish Hussar were excellent~♡

[@hannibalburgers477]

How cuddly they are ♡♡

[@engasal]

Sharpe and his bros are excellenter

[@fleshwoundp1744]

Im surprised British riflemen in open field with no support not winning against lancers?!?!? This is Sharpe right? They usually make the Brits super OP in this show. =P

[@niwka]

They make Sharpe OP, but the brits in general about as competent as a wet glove.

[@morikanteyekeyeke6147]

Never say die young Perkins, he must have watched the Goonies.

[@raditya5663]

Most accurate stone thrower

[@benjaminjacquelin746]

Honneur et gloire

[@martingale7748]

Je ne suis venu que pour lire les commentaires. Pas déçu.

[@bo2web]

A la différence des anglais, les français ont abandonné toute idée d'Empire !

[@reyphenixsecondaire404]

@@bo2web à la différence que même la France a une bonne armé sans empire

[@gervaisdebazoches1889]

Je suis tombé par hasard sur la vidéo. 👍 Ça fait, depuis la série Jean-Roch Coignet, qu'il n'y a plus rien! Alors qu'il y a moyen avec toute l'Histoire, batailles, expéditions, aventures,...traités dans des livres par des historiens, des milliers de scénarios sont possibles à réaliser! Pas facile de trouver des producteurs et ne parlons pas du financement du cinéma, pour des films/séries de "merdes", par notre chère ripoublique, qui veut effacer l'Histoire! Il faudrait que tous marchent au canon, pour sauver la France! Ce que Grouchy n'a pas fait.

[@gervaisdebazoches1889]

Et n'oublions pas, l'armée de Wellington au Portugal, en Espagne ou å Waterloo, financée par les Rothschilds!

[@paulhomsy2751]

@@bo2web C'est l'empire qui les a motives mais dont le revers de la medaille a ete leur talon d'Achille. Cet attachement aveugle a leur pays les a empeches d'apprecier leurs colonies. Ils ont gagnes de nombreuses batailles parce que leur troupes sont tres loyales et disciplinees mais ils ont presque toujours perdu en politique a cause du detachement et dedain qu'ils ressentaient envers les indigenes des pays qu'ils colonisaient ne se sentant jamais chez eux. Aucune assimilation a Dieu ne plaise, il n'y a que l'Angleterre qui compte meme si on s'ancre dans une nouvelle terre. Les francais sont plus aventuries, moins dependants. Tout d'abord ils ne donnent pas de noms de villes francaises dans leurs colonies pour se retrouves un peu chez eux., ils n'eprouvent pas ce besoin de se sentir attaches du nombril a la mere patrie et ils construisent toute une infrastructure pour les gens des pays qu'ils occupent. Ils traitent plus facilement avec les autres. Tres differents. Les francais prennent mais ils apportent beaucoup, les anglais prennent. A peu d'exceptions, la France a garde avec tout le reste du monde d'excellentes relations. Cela n'a pas ete le cas de l'Angleterre pendant des siecles. Les choses ont change mais uniquement grace au temps et aux dernieres generations plus ouvertes d'esprit. Un exemple de la pensee differente des deux pays. Dans cette video, bien que ce ne soit qu'un film, Sharpe essaye de proteger l'un des siens et les deux cavaliers francais le relachent. Pour les remercier, au lieu de leur donner le champ libre, il les tues. Il est normal que les Anglais se plaignaient au pres des francais avec un refrain qui a peu change que les francais se battaient pour l'argent et qu'eux se battaient pour "l'honneur". Il est donc aussi parfaitement normal que Surcouf reponde que "chacun se bat pour ce qui lui manque". Deux peuples tres differents. Les anglais ont rarement ete magnanimes, par contre le long de l'histoire les francais l'ont souvent demontre avec largesse. Il faut voir les choses avec du recul. Nul peuple n'est parfait mais les differences restent toujours prononcees.

[@billybeads3328]

It must have taken a lot of soul searching by Sharpe and his men not to open fire to try and save their comrades but then they would probably all have been killed

[@42lookc]

That's what it seemed. Near certain death and still lose? No, live and fight another day.

[@urbannpa]

I know this came on PBS but is the whole series shown anywhere now?

[@mungox1]

on UK Drama channel in March drama.uktv.co.uk/shows/sharpe/episodes/

[@FrenchFroglegsWithGarlic]

Looks like uhlan uniform....

[@angelfan16]

Dude, did ya'll see Sharpe just fucking throw a knife from long range into a dude's neck? That was impressive.

[@umeda777]

What a nice ambush~

[@Brvnkaerv]

'This one's for your mother!"

[@juliof6423]

Salut à tous, Français et Britanniques est ce une série ou un film? avec lord Starck en plus, je ne connaissais pas...

[@nwerner3654]

And this, boys and girls, is why they stood in lines

[@jeddkeech259]

Lmaoooooo 😂

[@masterexploder9668]

Reloading took ages, standing in formation (square was the best, due to horses fear of clumped masses of people) and bayonets as semi-spears was absolutely vital to avoid fate like this, but riflemen actually had sabres, not rifles with bayonets and most importantly they were absolutely caught out camping. Absolutely hopeless to defend.

[@Egooist.]

The problem here is that - *_by the look of it_* - the french "ambush" consists of just about two dozen *horsemen* & Sharpe & his five *riflemen* are positioned at a rather safe spot. They could - *_so it seems_* - make a difference with little risk to themselves.

[@richpryor9650]

Imagine getting ambushed by a bunch of French dudes wearing Chef Hats.

[@jerryrexmmiiireg3271]

What were they doing camped in level open field where they would be at a disadvantage against cavalry? First rule of War is to take advantage of the terrain around you and access your strengths and weakness and that of your enemy.

[@SwordDigio]

Sharpe and his men are probably round delayers in blood and iron.

[@SwordDigio]

WAIT I ACCIDENTALLY SAID SHARPE THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT!!!

[@Souflouz]

Lmao yes

[@junito1957]

WHAT THE RIFLE ARE FOR HOLDING STICKS?

[@friedrichschiller5209]

What movie is this, please ?

[@wojciechkazana6981]

French cavalery dressed with Vistula Lancers uniforms and hats but... without lances :) Movie realities

[@power-armoured_german9856]

They also call them dragoons

[@ammarsulaiman5069]

Support french from malaysia...

[@snakeenjoyingacanofbeans5219]

Mr Sharpe please find your hat

[@modenasolone]

Hiding behind behind some rocks, Sharpe, wont do.

[@fandityadwiputra]

Why don't the company survived? Can anyone explain about cavalry charge?

[@katana258]

so we have rifles / muskets and do not use them just run around in circles

[@adrianperalta2425]

They deserve to die. No guard on duty, Rifles not ready. Poor leadership.

[@vijayvgaikwad]

What is the name of movie? Which year eleased?

[@StonesSticksBones]

Sharpe's Rifles (it's a TV series), 1993 I think

[@georgedelanoy9548]

Vive la France 🇫🇷

[@lvlc6023]

Vive la Belgique 🇧🇪

[@georgedelanoy9548]

@@lvlc6023 la Belgique c’est la France voyons. L’Angleterre vous a créer de toute pièce ! Les wallons sont français. Nous avons les meme origines , nous parlons la même langue , la même culture , identité ... ça sera bien un jour de réunir notre peuple ! Nous pourrions faire des grandes choses. Après ce n’est que min avis.

[@lvlc6023]

@@georgedelanoy9548 Notre sainte devise est :"Le Roi, la Loi, la Liberté". Nous avons certe une histoire commune. Mais nous somme maintenant une nation souveraine.

[@georgedelanoy9548]

@@lvlc6023 bien sûr je ne met pas en doute votre indépendance. Mais typiquement votre état ne fonctionne pas bien. Il y a des tensions communautaires entre wallons et flamands (et avec les immigrés en plus), vous n’avez toujours pas de gouvernement ... ne pensez vous pas qu’il serait temp que le peuple français de tous les pays se réunissent. Les suisses français , les belges français , pourquoi pas les québécois , les cajuns ... tous nos frères dispersées dans le monde.

[@lvlc6023]

@@georgedelanoy9548 La France n'est pas plus en forme que nous. La Belgique à ces problèmes, c'est vrai. Mais nous n'avons pas besoin d'autres pays pour les résoudres. L'histoire, c'est l'histoire. Les choses changent.

[@gengis737]

An English movie where Sharpe does not win ? Must be a cut.Also, Sharpe and his squad are out of reach of cavalry on steep rocks, they are Rifles, the only ones able to shoot with accuracy at 400m, and they do not provide fire support to their unit ? French cavalry does not seem so numerous.

[@septegram]

I'm always surprised Sharpe didn't have his chosen men fire. With their 3 rounds per minute rate of fire, and being in a place inaccessible to cavalry, they might have turned the rout into a successful defense. Plot requirement, I guess.

[@JevansUK]

It's all over in about 80 seconds, Sharpe know's everyone else is dead and risking his men's lives isn't worth the small amount of casualties they could inflict.

[@Tiwaz81]

3 rounds per minute is what he expects from his musket carrying troops. His redcoats. Hard to do with a rifle. It’s why Napoleon refused to issue rifles. Too slow to load despite EVERY other army having some form of rifleman.

[@worlore1651]

He taught them how to fire 4 rounds a minute against cavalry

[@illtemperedcur9798]

It's because of his orders from Wellington, that one of the three officers MUST make contact with Rothschild. The other two officers are being slaughtered in the valley below, and regardless of whether the Chosen Men enter the battle by shooting the Frog leaders, the British officers are almost certain to be killed before it's over. Even if they defeat the Frogs. A hard decision by Sharpe, but the correct one, given his orders.

[@MichaelGThomas]

​@@worlore1651 When using muskets, not rifles.

[@nashe7372]

Mr stark

[@onesmusmutunga803]

Good movies

[@user-lr1ze3oz9u]

Thoes are ulans ore lancers?

[@SPDFRK]

Where can I watch this show?

[@bertsmith5223]

The full series including 2 extra episodes are all on DVD

[@norfangl3480]

Letting your entire unit get wiped out but saving your flag? Now that's soldiering

[@sheldon-cooper]

Something something... That's soldiering

[@hannibalburgers477]

late. few years lte

[@yougotjunbaited]

Ned stark and stark soldiers armed with rifle

[@jimmyleowcheekheong7568]

Christopher Mcdougall ycgsagasggsgaggcQwyte

[@Guiscardr]

Major Dunnett poised to stab a downed French cavalryman with the company pennant before being killed? That’s soldiering.

[@leeball4585]

1:28 Nooo! Not the bloke who wrote the 'quiet man' speeches for Iain Duncan Smith!!!

[@dmitry9801]

Who cane tall this haw this film named ?

[@chat17]

that not french, but polish cavalry,, they were fighting with french, and were part of grande armee

[@danielworthington2949]

French dude couldn’t breathe through his nose 😂

[@OneofInfinity.]

She does not say "we need" she knew she needed him in the first episode.

[@user-uj1uv5fv9y]

What the name of this movie?

[@CRAZY_B22-lv5nt]

Vive l'empereur

[@IllicitGreen]

what a complete catastrophe!

[@Jack-ff2zs]

There used to be so many of the chosen men then in the last few episodes there's only 3

[@WI1987]

Chosen Man was a rank ... I believe it was comparable to today's rank of Lance Corporal.

[@MrLewkon]

If you take a look at the white four angels cavaliers hats. You will see that this soldiers were Poles who has fight on the French side apart of the officer cause obviously he was French

[@Skenderbeuismyhero]

This one didn't make sense. They were up on ground completely inaccessible to the french cavalry and could have been firing multiple volleys while they enemy would have had to dismount and climbed the rocks on foot under fire and without any way to answer their fire.

[@jeffreyadams648]

They have no sentries?

[@pauldonvito8270]

wasn't that the guy who got the garrotte (sp?) at the start?

[@broncosgjn]

My thoughts exactly. They had pickets which were from picket fence which was a system where the sentries were spread out in sight of each other and usually in twos. You had to kill 2 sentries and do it so the next pickets on either side did not see it. That is why these things are only on movies and TV. Surprisingly professional armies learned something from thousands of years of war. However script writes and authors need easy ways to set up a story. Pity they just don't think a bit harder and have something plausible instead of ruining good stories with BS like this. Also there is always a response party fully armed loaded and ready to fight under the command of the duty officer at the center of the camp prepared to respond to the pickets warning. Otherwise why have a warning if there is no way to respond to it?

[@pauldonvito8270]

@@broncosgjn some really great info in your reply, thankyou. I guess realism in film is a risky business. you want to convey 'grit' but you also don't want to inundate audiences with much of the mundanity of military routine. allegedly master and commander failed because many people found it boring (though, i believe, a very realistic depiction). horses for courses when it comes to cinema i guess.

[@broncosgjn]

@@pauldonvito8270 Yep. I think Sharpe is pretty good usually. You make a good point. If people are interested though another issue here were the saber cuts killing guys outright which was not true. Survival from saber cuts was quite high and you usually had a bleeding issue which if not resolved might get you. So soldiers could and did often fight on with saber cuts as they were shallow bleeding wounds. They could be sewn up. Stabs were often fatal although if the wound was not into the lung or heart or spine you could still operate but you would die later from the deep wound which could not be treated. But as you say here the defeat of the riflemen was part of the story line. Saber armed cavalry were very good at pursuing broken infantry but not very good at wiping out a unit of infantry. This is not a complaint just an observation.

[@ethandunn6498]

Jeffrey Adams they literally had just arrived, sharpes party were the scouts. But i agree they shouldve sent more out

[@1989roos]

Hello Sharpe Channel, I would like to get in touch with you about this footage. Is there an e-mailadres or contact form I could use? Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Roos

[@janreznak881]

The Spanish woman...nice...

[@SmokeDog1871]

,,,, nice ....

[@cumpanions8105]

@@SmokeDog1871 noiceeee

[@joseantoniograciabellido7881]

Assumpta Serna

[@dimitriofthedon3917]

Good likely hood the guy at the start didn't die

[@ironskyheart7749]

1:30 didn’t he play the Prince of Wales?

[@reyphenixsecondaire404]

1:55 is ned stark ?

[@Spartiateism]

006 or Boromir long before Ned

[@alanwong8587]

how does a rifle regiment not fire a single shot in that engagement at all !?!?!?! they literally turned to hand to hand combat immediately instead of fixing bayonets or firing considering most of them are suppose to be decent shots so why use the rifles as clubs. like sharpes men were about to fire so that tells me there whole regiment had loaded rifles or could have at least fixed a couple bayonets instead of turning to swords

[@mikelindellspillow2609]

Les Sauterelles

[@dominiksobel6343]

+Mm... wyglądali jak polscy ułani... They look like a polish cavalery.

[@MonsieurNarlan]

La garde meurt mais ne se rend pas !

[@christianwerler5419]

I don't get it....why didn't they support...they are snipers or not. Maybe the ambush would have been disturbed... with concentrated fire the horsemen could have been confused

[@jacekwidor3306]

Lanciers of Vistula Legion? Oh, my God! Very, wery poor and badly copies of his uniforms.

[@heartachez148]

Jacek Widor wozas

[@heartachez148]

Jacek Widor same profile pick

[@jankowalski-lg6bs]

the reality was different: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGHTeJ6OnLWkitU There were only 215 Polish lancers at Waterloo, and 5 were killed. Surprisingly low losses resulted from the iron discipline of Poles and excellent training

[@BigDuke6ixx]

The last battle won by a French army on its own.

[@crispinjulius5032]

Jeez, it’s almost like they had a budget and could only do what they could with what they were working with.

[@leszeksikora5923]

Why french cavalry have polish shakos?

[@etengalsebelas5774]

You should run to winterfell....

[@Slazenger7624]

Name for the movie

[@StonesSticksBones]

Sharpe's Rifles (it's a TV series)