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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 6:52 am to GetCocky11
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;
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Posted on 8/1/17 at 7:05 am to FreddieMac
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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;
I know about this event. It is also touched on in the movie as well. According to an eye witness, after the white flag was raised, Tarleton's horse was shot out from under him. After that happened, the Loyalists thought the surrendering troops had just killed their commander so they went and killed all the Continentals.
This is not even comparable to the burning of a church full of townspeople.
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