re: I have heard that "The Patriot" is terribly inaccurate and offensive to the British

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Im pretty sure its the burning women and children in the church scene.

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This is it exactly. There is no record of this ever happening anywhere during the Revolutionary War.

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The church-burning scene in The Patriot is actually based on an incident from World War II, when Nazi soldiers burned a group of French villagers alive. There is no evidence that a similar event took place during the American Revolution.

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