Quote from: Leman on 22 June 2016, 01:25:12 PM
In the books Sharpe is born in a very rough part of London known as the Roockery, but when apprenticed to a chimney sweep he runs away, eventually ending up in Yorkshire, where he commits murder at the age of 15, and joins the army (33rd Foot), being recruited by Hakeswill, to escape the gallows. In the books he is a very, very rough diamond.

Sharpe runs away to Yorkshire in the books to explain Sean Bean's accent in the TV series.

Quote from: Nosher on 22 June 2016, 07:33:15 AM
Thankfully the US didn't get their hands on the series or the American's would have won entering the game at the 11th hour, capturing the French code books in the process and tanks would have been involved as a 'what if'.

Actually here IS our version  :

The 95th is pictured briefly in one of the slides (several companies of the 3rd battalion were present).

I guess this is the Canadian Sharpe then

Well that seems entirely fair    (We had burned the Capitol of Upper Canada the year before after all). No 95th involved however (maybe elements of the 60th?)

One of the McGann brothers was originally slated to play Sharpe, but smashed his leg playing football during a lunch break in rehearsals, so Sean Bean was free and dropped into the role!

Oh God - Sharpe would've been a scouser and hanged for robbing a wild chicken (pronounced chi-chen - ch as in Scottish loch whilst trying to get up phlegm at the same time - the pronunciation is a sheer delight).

Learnt something else tonight whilst watching Sharpe's Sword; you can indeed receive a sword cut to the shoulder that goes through to the bone and get a musket ball in the gut and within three days lead a spirited charge.

Quote from: Leman on 22 June 2016, 08:34:40 PM
Learnt something else tonight whilst watching Sharpe's Sword; you can indeed receive a sword cut to the shoulder that goes through to the bone and get a musket ball in the gut and within three days lead a spirited charge.

Entirely possible if "spirited" here means staggering drunk on rum spritzers.

Didn't Hagman and Tongue die at Waterloo after they left Hougamont or Le Hay Sainte???

Hagman certainly did. I'm now up to disc 7 of 8 and Tongue seemed to disappear ages ago.

Quote from: Obsidian23 on 13 July 2016, 01:22:44 PM
Didn't Hagman and Tongue die at Waterloo after they left Hougamont or Le Hay Sainte???

It Hagman and Harris - their final act being to link hands as they expire.