Downer Ending: The Royalist cause fails and Mariette is killed while trying to escape with Hornblower. ![]() The Dog Bites Back: If Moncoutant's treatment of the town after their "liberation" is any indication, he was not kind to them before the revolution and thus makes his execution at their hands all the more satisfying.Dope Slap: Styles attempts to do this to Oldroyd when the latter enthusiastically joins the French Royalists in shouting "Vive le roi!" ("Long live the King!").However, as Hornblower points out, the Royalists aren't necessarily aware of this. Somewhat justified in that according to the English Articles of War, stealing is punishable by death. Also earlier in the episode when Matthews and Styles threaten a Royalist soldier with hanging for trying to "steal" a chicken.Disproportionate Retribution: Mariette mentions that Moncoutant has executed a baker for selling stale bread.The story condenses them all into General Charette and the fictional Moncoutant. A few of them had markedly different political leanings, and the dispute between the arch-royalists and the more moderate factions hampered the operation. Composite Character: There were several French commanders on the expedition.Even though they clearly had no business fighting from the start, they remain to fight to the last man. Fauré breaks into singing "La Marseillaise" rather than back down to Moncoutant.Big Damn Heroes: The bloody Indy comes to the rescue when the British troops are cornered on the beach.His army ended up crushed by the Republic's forces, he was captured in 1796 and executed shortly thereafter. He was the leader of an army of counter-revolutionary insurgents in Vendée. Artistic License – History: François Athanase Charette de La Contrie was a real historical figure, although he never went to England or participated in a landing of counter-revolutionary French emigrates.His only priority is to put his old peasants back in their place as brutally as possible, comparing them to livestock at one point. Aristocrats Are Evil: Montcoutant is a one-man justification for the entire French Revolution.Freshly-promoted Lieutenant Hornblower joins an expedition to restore the French monarchy, but it appears to be doomed to failure.
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