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re: I have heard that "The Patriot" is terribly inaccurate and offensive to the British
Posted on 8/1/17 at 6:29 am to FreddieMac
Posted on 8/1/17 at 6:29 am to FreddieMac
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Hahaha at people thinking atrocities like the church burning scene did not happen. People need to read a history of the war in SC
The revolution in South Carolina was brutal. It was basically a civil war. Neighbor vs Neighbor.
However there is no evidence of any event involving burning a church full of townspeople ever happening.
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Posted on 8/1/17 at 6:52 am to GetCocky11
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However there is no evidence of any event involving burning a church full of townspeople ever happening.
You are being to literal. That was just one type of atrocity that was displayed in a fiction. The fact it did not happen does not mean there where not burnings, murders and butchery on both sides.
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Tarleton and his Tories proceeded to shoot at the Patriots after their surrender, a move that spawned the term “Tarleton’s Quarter,” which in the eyes of the Patriots meant a brutal death at the hands of a cowardly foe. The Continentals lost 113 killed and 203 captured in the Battle of Waxhaws;
This post was edited on 8/1/17 at 6:56 am
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