Love watching Hollywood fencing duels where neither participant knows the first thing about fencing.

I try to leave but he keeps buying more drink! Haha Harper

So funny when Harper threw away the bar girl when Molly entered the room :D GO HARPER!!!

lady Anne may be sneaky but i like her, she is a good intelligence agent for sharpe and is very good to him sice he helped her avenge her husband

I always understood that saber fencing was the most common in those days, on the grounds that it had the most practical application. Gentlemen that played with sabers would have a minimal understanding of a weapon they'd use if they became officers. Old man's got a point, all the same. Wickham (Lazy writers!) didn't prove anything, except that he embarrasses War Heroes, and had better things to do with his time and talent than serve King and Country.

@alexlyster3459

4 жыл бұрын

The writers do show how little he proved later in the episode though. When sharpe beats him in a real fight

@HandleMyBallsYouTube

3 жыл бұрын

Sabers are a military weapon, these people are using smallswords, completely different weapons, one is a civilian self defense weapon and a sign of high status, the other is a purely practical battlefield weapon. In reality, if you read any accounts of duels from the time that in a duel whoever has better training usually wins, there are a lot of accounts of British soldiers and officers, particularly cavalrymen getting beaten in duels with French officers trained in the use of the smallsword, if it's stab against slash 9 times out of 10 the stab will land first, and 9 times out of 10 a nobleman who's trained most of their life will beat a soldier that has had no proper training in swordsmanship.

try that fancy "I've gotten your sword with me arm" move with a saber and you'll lose the arm.

That Rossendale is one lying toad, he gets in the neck at Waterloo, karma, always will believe in it.

best series ever on tv.....2nd our friends in the north

Yeah, definitely! Although I'd have been more aggressive! Brains my arse!

Is it just me, or did anyone else want to see sharpe turn up with his sword, and see the other guys face go 'holy fuck!'?

Sharpe was never much of a swordsman, he usually gets beat but wins due to scrappy tactics you couldn't really get away with in a fancy dandy duel

@WickedKingLycoan

4 жыл бұрын

Rio A.: The assembled would have been aghast if he actually utilized combat sword tactics. Though, I agree. But there is nothing pretty about them, or a man getting kicked in the stones or punched in the kidney while sword fighting.

@davidtuttle7556

3 жыл бұрын

@@WickedKingLycoan Combat veterans often struggle when coming home with their words. War is sheer brutality and requires brutishness for a soldier to survive. Us civvies would indeed not be able to handle watching it.

LMAO at 4:15 Sir Percy calls it like it is

When I say "Better things to do", I mean Wickham *felt* he had better things to do.

those rapiers should've broken xD

Fencing is about combat. But only in the sense of the duel. And why do I suspect the young Wickham will get his ass handed to him by part II

Sharpe defeated by a FANCY DANCY!??!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

@thetayterminator1436

3 жыл бұрын

I hated to see it too… and then hated to see that old man bragging about it

there's a difference between friendly fencing in a clean environment with blunt swords and fighting with swords on a battlefield.

Flashman would have shown that officer a thing or two , damn his eyes .

I agree...!

he should marry the countess

Tackytoes?😄😄😄😄

@ichimaru96

3 жыл бұрын

ah yes, tacky toes, along with sewitt o'neeus, and sow crates. greatest writers of the ancient world

Sharpe would have won were it a matter of life and death but since fencing is for the fop who hids in high society and does not go to war and the foil is much lighter than sharpe's saber

Sharpe dosn't do fighting fo show..!

Sharpe hated that party -_-

@Antigan15th To be true one could say he was, his stance for example, being one of a soldier while Wickhams stance clearly being one of a gentleman.

anyone know whats happened to ramona? harper's wife?

@Montecruz u mean sally?

@Antigan15th wait, that Wickham guy has balls? all this time i thought he was a eunuch

@bookloverholic rite :D

@vaevictus sabre.

Can only assume that's Sharpe's mother. Although in the novels, she died in the Gordon Riots when Sharpe was 3. Another reason I hate this episode.

@Antigan15th i would have still kicked him in the balls