re: Characters who were not exactly villains, but you found them to be despicable.

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he just was following orders

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Not really. Cornwallis didn’t command him to massacre the innocents and that entire brigade would have faced a firing squad when Cornwallis found out.

Five people died in the Boston Massacre and we know how that ended. Do you think we would have forgotten a British brigade lighting 100 people on fire inside a church? One historian has said if the British did do that, it probably would have been enough to keep us entirely out of WWI. We’d be calling Brits “church burners” to this day.

It was based on an actual historical crime, but it was done by SS officers in France. I don’t blame the Brits for being pissed for their portrayal in that movie.