#95th Rifles

[aranov]

Please admire all 4700000 yards of hand sewn trim and six dozen hand done buttonholes thank you✨ I had a lovely first time at NYCC, and shout-out to that one guy who recognized me as Sharpe and the other guy who recognized Napoleonic rifleman! And thanks to Thor and @queensabriel for these photos 💖

(I'm wearing it again to the Texas Renaissance Festival on Black Friday, look for me there 😌)

#Sharpe's comic con #sharpe's rifles #Sharpe #richard sharpe #95th rifles #hand sewing #fiber arts my beloved

[blackswaneuroparedux]

He might not be a born officer, but by God he was a born soldier. He was the son of a whore, bereft of God, but a God-damned soldier.

Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Rifles

What better way to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo than to watch a couple of episodes of Sharpe television series with Sean Bean in the titular title role of the gritty swashbucking Richard Sharpe of the 95th Rifles with your downstairs neighbour, a retired French army general and Napoleonic warfare history buff.

#cornwell #bernard cornwell #quote #richard sharpe #literature #novels #tv series #napoleonic warfare #waterloo #peninisular war #95th Rifles #army officer #hero #british army #sean bean

[bantarleton]

Soldiers of the 95th Rifles during the Napoleonic Wars.

#history #british army #military history #19th century #95th rifles #napoleonic #napoleonic wars #Sharpe

[misterivy]

#sharpe tv series #richard sharpe #sean bean #daragh o'malley #jason salkey #john tams #95th rifles #napoleonic wars #British army #19th century

[yerevasunclair]

Sharpe

@streets-in-paradise

#Sharpe #richard sharpe #sean bean #shaun mark bean #95th rifles #sharpe series

[pattern-53-enfield]

“What makes a good soldier?” “The ability to fire three rounds a minute in any weather!”

Green Jackets, 95th Rifles by Suehyo99

#95th rifles #baker rifle #sharpe's rifles #girls in uniform #artists on twitter #military art #uniform art #napoleonic wars

[chiropteracupola]

Plates and Bowls and Such

#em's adventures in the ceramic bowl mines #evening’s activities are set for a haunted graveyard plate set #maybe 95th rifles plates as well #and then some glazing if I feel like it!

[thekenobee]

Did I just go through 300 IMDb photos? I might have done that, yes

#THEM #also the one with the soviet HAT I CANT #SHARPE #Richard Sharpe #Sean bean #rifleman Harris #Daniel hagman #John tams #Francis cooper #95th rifle company #patrick harper #darragh O’Malley #bts #Sharpe bts

[chernobog13]

Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, with guest star Elizabeth Hurley as Isabella, Lady Farthingdale, in Sharpe's Enemy (1994).

This was the fourth in the series of telefilms based on Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series of novels. It adapts the 1984 novel of the same name, which was the eighth novel in the original eleven-book series (until Cornwell wrote a number of prequels and sequels), and is now the sixteenth of twenty-three novels.

#Sharpe's Enemy #Richard Sharpe #Sean BEan #Isabella #Lady Farthingdale #Elizabeth Hurley #Bernard Cornwell #Napoleonic Wars #95th Rifles Regiment

[clove-pinks]

This is what you Sharpe's Rifles people are reading, right??

This was my light reading last night, and I enjoyed it very much, despite being written for children people of all ages. Foundling George Milton escapes the workhouse where he is cruelly mistreated and becomes a bugler for the 95th Rifle Regiment in 1809, after he is rescued and adopted by a Regimental Sargent Major. Awwww!

As a piece of historical fiction, it's put together with great care, with a lovely emphasis on the day to day life of a Napoleonic era soldier. The forward by Bernard Cornwall states that Richard Sharpe would approve of George Milton and even seems to hint that Sharpe could make a cameo appearance in a future volume.

But alas, volume 1 was published in 2020, and there are no signs of any sequels? I can't find any information about this series being continued.

#over the hills to talavera #napoleonic #napoleonic wars #historical fiction #military history #stephen petty #the author is/was older and has chronic health conditions #but the book is still being pitched by the rifles charity organisation #95th rifles regiment #sharpe's rifles

[cool-as-steel]

I really do like it when you enter the book feeling Dread and Expecting The Horrors but instead you discover a book which is. Fairly Okay Actually.

#the captain's library #my reviews thus far for 'a lady for a duke' are 'I do not think I am the target audience for this but I've gotten halfway through without #once wanting to chew glass' and 'AHAHA 95TH RIFLES JUMPSCARE' #95th rifles everywhere forever. funny as all get-out that this keeps happening. #anyway. more to the point I think that my quibbles are mostly in the vein of Well The Book Wasn't Really Trying To Do That #(setting-texture and specific clothing logistics being the main ones here) #and I feel like the parts of the plot that revolve around community and identity and addiction are being smoothed out too easily #but Then Again my bar for 'strangegirl/man with laudanum problem and also napoleon is there' is diana/stephen #and nothing is ever going to be on pob's level for Whatever That Is. #the gender parts of the deal are so far nothing worth writing home about but it's nice that the book exists! #all in all it's not going to be a favorite or a reread but it's light and not terrible and I'm having a Little fun at the very least

[pathfinderswiftpen]

Feeling significantly less dysphoric about having breasts upon realizing I can refer to them as The Lads

#nonbinary #genderqueer #why it took me this long i dont know but #now i have them associated with the 95th rifles so The Lads it is #ohmygod “perkins” like 'perky' “harris” like hairy? adfhjgdddffgg someone Stop Me #journal posting

[lacomandante]

I'm going to see Napoleon today, wish me fucking luck

#;ooc #(LISTEN I KNOW. TRUST ME. IVE HEARD THE WORST OF IT.) #(I KNOW ABOUT THE PIG NOISES. THE TRENCHES AT WATERLOO. THE 95TH RIFLEMAN WITH A SCOPE ON HIS RIFLE.) #(but i am subjecting myself to it anyways bc i reaaaally want to see the costumes) #(and also bc i havent seen a movie with my dad in years)

[bantarleton]

Troops of the 95th Rifles engaged in hand-to-hand combat with French Infantry in a Spanish village, by Mark Stacey. 

#peninsular war #19th century #napoleonic #napoleonic wars #history #military history #95th rifles #british army

[misterivy]

#sean bean #richard sharpe #napoleonic era #95th rifles #Bernard Cornwell books

[emilybeemartin]

Ok ok ok ok listen. Because I have anxiety I feel it's my duty to say that this show won't be for everyone. I came to it over quarantine because my husband suggested we read Bernard Cornwell's series together, and I agreed because I liked Hornblower and knew this was the army equivalent and, let's face it, I wanted to see scruffy mid-thirties Sean Bean in uniform.

THE PREMISE:

Richard Sharpe is a lowborn rank-and-file soldier in the 95th Rifles during the Napoleonic Wars who is raised to an officer after saving Sir Arthur Wellesley's life (this all happens differently in the books, but the basic event is the same). Throughout the series, he rises in the ranks thanks to his bravery and heroism/recklessness, but he's always caught between two worlds--trying to be a leader of common men while never being accepted by the rest of the highborn officers.

Let's start with the bad:

CONS:

Look, this is a 90s drama glorifying the British army. So like, there are gonna be issues. Women are mostly romantic side pieces to be wooed and rescued, and there are plenty of subplots, verbiage, and stereotypes that didn't age well. Production values are low for the first few and so you've got battle scenes with like fifteen guys and a horse, which honestly I find endearing. But no episode is more cringey than Sharpe's Gold. Due to legal issues, the script had to be rewritten with none of the original material, and it turned into this bizarro semi-supernatural horror involving Aztec gold (in Spain, yes). It's completely different from all the other episodes, and even Sean Bean didn't like it (he called it a "mish mash," which is true). It's such a weird piece of work that we almost stopped watching the show, but we continued, and we were relieved to find that the rest of the series is markedly better. History Hack podcast does a great dive into why this episode was so whack.

PROS:

I MEAN COME ON

Sean really understood this character--absolute chaos on the battlefield and shy and awkward pretty much everywhere else. He's amazing in battle scenes and he's EPIC at acting wounded. But the scenes I replay over and over are when he's socially out of his depth and gets flustered and sputtery and so Sheffield the captions can't handle it.

Supporting cast:

You'll find a lot of your classic British TV favorites making appearances throughout this series, and the camaraderie among the riflemen is always fun. Obviously this is a dude fest, as stated above, but some of the women are also written and acted really, really well--- Assumpta Serna as Teresa is that winning combination of a love interest/action heroine who doesn't devolve into a damsel in distress, and even passes the Bechdel test on a few occasions. And Diana Perez as Ramona is so badass and enjoyable.

Locations: Aside from a few interior sets, these films are mostly shot outside on location, with practical effects and stunts. There's some gorgeous scenery of the Crimean peninsula standing in for Spain and Portugal, and it's just really fun watching these guys run around rocky escarpments and fields with flares and stage explosives going off around them.

Music: I saw someone tag the opening theme as "electric guitar jumpscare" and they're not wrong. It's wonderfully anachronistic and totally 90s and you'll never get used to it. But far better are the soldiers' songs John Tams threads throughout, as well as his and Muldowney's thematic scores, and you will always, always finish an episode with him singing "Over the Hills and Far Away" stuck in your head.

Filming Lore: There was a LOT that happened during filming. Everything from Paul McGann having to drop out as the lead to misadventures in filming in Crimea just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. History Hack podcast has an awesome series of "filming of" episodes with input from cast, crew, and historians, and Jason Salkey (Rifleman Harris) has a book called "From Crimea With Love" that details the batshit filming adventures. I haven't read it but he references it every six minutes throughout the podcasts.

So: you've been warned, you've been primed. Start with Sharpe's Rifles; it's on Youtube. Watch it and Eagle, maybe jump to Battle or Siege if you're not sure, and then make up your mind.

If this all sounds enjoyable to you, but you wish there were more tall ships, more Paul McGann, more heroic brooding, and even MORE true love cosplaying as masculine camaraderie, you're in luck! Because you should also watch Hornblower!

And then draw fan art of it all! Please,,, I am so lon el y

#sharpe #hornblower #sean bean #paul mcgann #ioan gruffud