i got no idea who sharp is and i dont know where this show came from but i cant stop watching these clips

I like how in the book it explains that it has been raining just before this and Sharpe thinks this will have given the pistol wet powder so is happy to slowly stroll up to rosendale and take his pistol away. It's only after sharpe is holding it he realizes that it is a more expensive variety that had a protective cap keeping the powder dry. "If I had known that I would never have advanced on him so slowly" he thinks to himself.

In the book Rossendale suffered far more than any of the actual bad guys like Duco or Hakeswill. Poor guy had his eyes slashed out with a sabre and was stabbed in the back by a lance. The French cav then searched him for loot as he lay dying and hit him when he struggled. He then lay dying for the rest of the battle before finally being stabbed by a woman when he struggled as she took his trousers off for its silver buttons.

Whacking a cocked and loaded pistol against a tree with barell pointing at your chest, now that soldiering.

Sharpe's Waterloo is a great episode, but there was a missed opportunity. One of the best scenes in the book is when Sharpe appears at Lady Richmond's Ball, covered in blood, and walks up to Wellington as all the guests are sitting for dinner to gasps and stunned silence from all those assembled, including Jane, Rossendale and Lucille, and reports Napoleon's advance from Quatre Bras. It would have made a fantastic scene on screen.

Sharpe breaking Rossendale’s sword here is symbolic, in many armies at the time, officers who were stripped of theor rank by court martial were cashiered, by which they would be publicly stripped of epaulettes, decorations and other insignia, and their sword, would be broken. The sword was the symbol of an officers, British officers being court-martialled had to place their swords lengthwise on the panel bench, if found guilty, the point of the sword would be pointed at them, if found not guilty, the handle would be pointed at them, and the sword returned.

If real weapons broke so easily they wouldn't be of much use. But at this point Sharpe is basically the embodiment of Mars.

Love how you can see a flicker of discomfort in Rossendales face when Uxbridge casually mentions "its like killing rabbits."

I do appreciate the moderately subtle pointing out of the difference in experience of the characters as shown by their horses. Rossendale's horse freaks out at the rockets and Sharpe's is "Hmmm? Rockets? Must be Tuesday."

Getting inside the point and dispatching two French lancers, now thats just like killing rabbits

Love how Harper stalked it just incase the pansie did shoot Sharpe lol.

"And now to apologize to that little Dutch idiot I shat on yesterday.... I need the moneh'!" Quite possibly my favorite Sharpe quote.

i'm sure if lord rossendale had watched this series beforehand, he would've known how pointless it was to beef with sharpe.

And that is why Sharpe, despite upbringing, lack of noble title, and getting royally screwed by a wife he trusted, is still more of a gentleman than most of the people he interacts with. He's not a saint, but he's smart enough to know that Rossendale and his ex have a worse fate coming.

The several episodes written by Charles Wood elevated this series. Sean Bean is always great but, with good dialogue like this, he becomes magnificent.

Breaking a man's pistol and sword before offering martial advice.

Beating up a defenceless tree with a gun and a sword, now that's real soldiering!

Sharpe is so badass. What a mans man.

Wow, Rossendale really showed Sharpe with that glorious display.

I like Lord Uxbridge in this. For all he's foppish and snooty, he just casually murders a bunch of French cavalry and figures he'll come back the next day for a souvenir or two.