History Recap / SharpeS3E2SharpesBattle

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Don Juanita ends up on the receiving end of one from Lady Kiely during Loup's attack at night.

* WidowWoman: Lady Kiely's husband is killed by Loup at the end of the episode.
* WomenAreWiser: Emotionally, Lady Kiely's stronger than her husband.

-->'''Harper''': This one's for [[spoiler:Perkins!]](stabs once) This one's for Ireland! (stabs again) And this one's for me. (stabs a third time)

** Munro has anotherone when Sharpe tells him that he once dealt with a royal bodyguard and killing the one who they were supposed to protect! Munro: "Capital, capital. We're sending a regicide to take on a royal bodyguard."

* LeaveHimToMe: "No one touches O’Rourke. The bastard's mine."

-->"Loup's made you look bloody stupid. Are you going to stand for that? Are you?! 'Cause I’m not. I'm going to kill a wolf. Am I going to have to do it alone? I promised you a battle, and now I'm giving you one. Come on!"

-->"[And] the best person to kill on the battlefield is always the enemy officer, remember that. Kill them first, then the sergeants, and then you can kill any poor bastard you want. But if you've shot your ball, then what you do is turn the musket and club the buggery out of the horse’s mouth. I guarantee the horse will throw its rider. And when the overpaid, overdressed monkey sitting on it hits the turf, you can finish him off while he's still stunned... We've killed officers in blue coats, red coats, even officers in white coats, because I don't care what army the officer fights for, or what color coat he wears, or what king he serves. A bad officer is better off dead and a good soldier better learn how to kill him, ain't that right, Sergeant Harper?"

* BadassMustache: Loup's mustache is similar to Ambrose Burnside's.

* AnimalMotifs: Loup’s is wolves. Loup is French for wolf, his men wear grey uniforms, have wolf sashes and capes, and leave wolf heads at massacres.
* AndThisIsFor: Harper when he stabs a traitorous Irish soldier who [[spoiler:murdered Perkins.]]

* AppleOfDiscord: Loup’s intent is to sow dissent among the Irish soldiers by printing and distributing false newspapers that speak of atrocities against the Irish people.

* DefiantCaptive: Lady Kiely. She smashes a bottle on Loup’s head and threatens to slit her own throat if he tries to rape her.
-->”You will not defile me, sir. On my child’s life, you will not.”

* EvilCounterpart: Dona Juanita to Teresa, as a female RebelLeader who is in a relationship with a British officer,[[spoiler:but is helping the French.]]

** Munro has anotherone when Sharpe tells him that he once dealt with a royal bodyguard and killing the one who they were supposed to protect! Munro: "Capital, capital.We're sending a regicide to take on a royal bodyguard."

* ImperiledInPregnancy: After Kiely learns Lady Kiely is pregnant, she is sent away from the fort, [[IHaveYourWife but is captured by]] [[spoiler:traitorous members of the Irish Company so Loup can force Kiely to abandon Sharpe's men to die.]]

* LeaveHimToMe: “No one touches O’Rourke. The bastard’s mine.”

* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: “My name is Sharpe. Major Sharpe. [[BadassBoast And I’m going to teach you to be soldiers]].”

* OhCrap: One of Loup’s men does this when he’s moving among the supposedly dead Chosen Men and taps Harper with his boot; Harper wakes up, and the unlucky man only has a couple moments to back away before Harper’s Nock gun blows him halfway across the street.

* TheQuisling: O’Rourke is the leader of a group of Royal Irish Company soldiers who are working for Loup.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler:O'Rourke threatens to rape Lady Kiely to the extent that she'll wish she was dead.]]

-->"Loup’s made you look bloody stupid. Are you going to stand for that? Are you?! ‘Cause I’m not. I’m going to kill a wolf. Am I going to have to do it alone? I promised you a battle, and now I’m giving you one. Come on!"

-->“[And] the best person to kill on the battlefield is always the enemy officer, remember that. Kill them first, then the sergeants, and then you can kill any poor bastard you want. But if you’ve shot your ball, then what you do is turn the musket and club the buggery out of the horse’s mouth. I guararantee the horse will throw its rider. And when the overpaid, overdressed monkey sitting on it hits the turf, you can finish him off while he’s still stunned... We’ve killed officers in blue coats, red coats, even officers in white coats, because I don’t care what army the officer fights for, or what color coat he wears, or what king he serves. A bad officer is better off dead and a good soldier better learn how to kill him, ain’t that right, Sergeant Harper?”

* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:O'Rourke murders Jenkins, who saved his life during a battle.]]
* VerbThis: Before shooting [[spoiler:Jenkins]], O'Rourke says "Have that."
* WidowWoman: [[spoiler:Lady Kiely's husband is killed by Loup at the end of the episode.]]

* {{Cuckold}}: Lady Kiely knows that Lord Kiely is having an affair with Dona Juanita and wants him to end it, to the point of asking Sharpe to intervene and even offering to sleep with him. Sharpe refuses to sleep with her, but promises to speak to Lord Kiely.

* EvilLaugh: Wellington and Munro have one after they decided to put Sharpe in charge of training for the unwanted irish soldiers.

On the Duke of Wellington's orders, Sharpe must train a unit of incompetent Spanish soldiers in time to battle Brigadier General Loup, a French officer who has sworn revenge against Sharpe.

* AdaptedOut: The novel has Loup (and by extension Juanita) working for Major Pierre Ducos. Here, the plan is all Loup’s.

* BreakTheBadass: When [[spoiler:Perkins]] is killed, Harper, Hagman and Harris to comfort him in his dying moments, these three hardened soldiers are reduced to ManlyTears by the event, and Harper promptly forgets about everything else to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against his murderer. Sharpe was elsewhere at the time, but the look on his face when he comes back and sees [[spoiler:Perkins']] body cradled in Harper's arms also qualifies.
* CallBack: To ''[[Recap/SharpeS2E2SharpesEagle Sharpe's Eagle]]''; Sharpe and Harper drill the Irish soldiers to fire three rounds a minute, just like Sharpe did for Simmerson's command.

* CavalryBetrayal: [[spoiler:Subverted. O'Rourke and his men are just pretending to be TheCavalry. The ''real'' cavalry shows up less than five minutes later.]]

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Perkins is the only Chosen Man left standing in a melee where the rest are gunned down. Then it turns out the Chosen Men were FakingTheDead. In the ensuing shootout, Perkins is murdered by O'Rourke, making him the first Chosen Man to die onscreen.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:When Dona Juanita informs Kiely of his wife's capture and forces him to comply with her and Loup.]]

* GangstaStyle: O'Rourke holds his pistol sideways when he murders [[spoiler:Jenkins.]]

* HeroKiller: Loup is the first antagonist whose schemes lead to the death of one of the Chosen Men: [[spoiler:Perkins. He also gunned down Harper (this turns out to be FakingTheDead) and stabs Kiely to death.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:O'Rourke is stabbed by Harper with the bayonet he used to murder Perkins.]]

** [[spoiler:Perkins is bayoneted by O'Rourke.]]
** [[spoiler:O'Rourke is stabbed repeatedly with a bayonet by Harper.]]

* SheKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Dona Juanita murders Miranda when she spies on her meeting with Loup.]]

* WorfHadTheFlu: Sharpe is overpowered by Loup during their duel, but fought with a handicap and ''still'' ends up killing him, admittedly by [[CombatPragmatist playing dirty]].