Sharpe Is Summoned To Duke Of Wellington's House | Sharpe

"At a place called Assaye, I saw a while sent ready to run..."

Going to India?
Now that’s sojourning!

Wellington was always a strategic genius

Using his best friend’s wife to get you to say yes? That’s soldiering.

I never liked these later episodes. The writing was lacking character. Sharpe had lost his charm entirely.

I always loved how Lord Wellington setup Sharpe, and he did it again in this sequence.

What is the title of the series that this comes from? This is one of the few I have not seen.

why would Harper of all people go back to working for Wellington? he was a horse tradesman even in Waterloo

Now you see, that wouldn't do. Such hamfisted attempts at manipulation, even if successful, is how you get a punched in the face oa swift kick in the nads😅

Hehehehe

i dont remember this in the series.

Reading the Sharpe books, as well as Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin series, were some of the best reads of my life. Enjoyed all of them. A treat for history buffs like me, even if the timelines sometimes didn't add up...

Finding lost Irish, now that’s soldiering!😂

It is difficult to take this Wellington seriously when I have just watched him as th somewhat bumbling Hastings in Poirot. I realise it is just me though and he is very good but ... hmm .. Hastings.

Sharpe should not have fallen for the whole “guilt trip” plot like he didn’t fall for the “your country needs you” nonsense. Once retired, stay retired and let the young fight.

I wish they would post this movie along with the others.

That's good writing!

Serving...

I don’t recall this scene.
Have I not watched all the episodes?
Waterloo was the last one right?

i would have had to give wellington a good hard look for that one...

His acting in the earlier series was better. He seems to be doing Boromir here

Daft scene, Wellington would have said, “Sharpe you’re going to India” and Sharpe would have said “yes sir when do I leave?”

What are those rubber boots you’re working on my lord?

“That may be so!...”

The polite way of saying “I couldn't give a s***” since 1817 😅

He walked into that trap

That’s what you call a dirty little trick!

A great series that bares watching over and over.
Sean Bean was truly "Lord in the North..."GOT".
And, a charter member of the "Fellowship"...."LOTR" .

Which episode was this?

"You saved my life Sharpe and I've shown my appreciation by repeatedly ordering you into harms way on the most dangerous of missions and into the hottest battlefields.
Damn it man you've killed more French men than AIDs of the arse! You're the only man who will do for this latest skirmish with death. Don't tell me you'd rather go back to your farm and bang your gorgeous wife 5 times a day!! "

You'll notice as Sharpe enters Wellington's office, there's a slight halt in his step. That's the moment that Wellington tightened his grip on Sharpe's short and curlies by letting Mrs. Harper into the foyer.

"Will you take me to Wellington? Or shall I dig the bugger out myself?"
pregnant pause then approving grin that Sharpe clearly doesn't hold rank or station as scared "Splendid. ...Splendid"

Sharpe: "That maybe so m'lord, but what happens in India are the business of men with influence and great import, and not of a farmer"

Wellington: "Very well, Brigadier General Sharpe, that is all, dismissed!"

I get that for the story finding Harper was the only realistic thing that would get Sharpe back in uniform, but it always felt odd to me that Harper ends up back in service, after the character was completely done with soldiering at Waterloo.

Filthy English

Apsley House is a nice gaff as places go, formerly had the address of Number 1, London!

now thats.......

I imagine it was no accident that Patrick's wife was waiting in that room that Sharpe just happened to be led through on his way out. Wellington knew damn well what Sharpe would do when he realized it was his friend who was missing.

I do not think this was in the Cornwell novels

Sharpe walked into that one.

I cannot fight no more as the actor that plays me is Sean Bean

Lmao damn it Wellington intentionally got the dude's wife there as the trump card XD

Wellington, a British General ... and a Russian Field Marshal.

I thought they don't get on? Aka beavis and butthead

That signature is not quite right !

That is the genius of Wellington. Had Patrick's wife waiting for Sharpe all the while. A measure of Sharpe's reason, loyalty to whom and motive. A farmer and soldier have three things in common..a heart, love and conscience.

Wellington defeated the minds of Napolean's elite.

Wow 🤩

any ideas, who will star, for the new sharpe book? i`d put money on daniel craig! :)

"Whom should we send as agent?"
"Send Harper. If anything goes wrong, Sharpe will rescue him."