The Brits Have a Right to be Upset

You haven't looked hard enough because the point has been stated many times before. Here's a thread not too far down were I mentioned it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/board/flat/230214654

One review I read said Tavington behaved more like an SS officer in WW2 than a British officer in the revolution.

Postings on this board are like a broken record. Everyone is either complaining about the historical inaccuracies, or the British atrocities. Yet the same people who post never do any research on the subject.

1. British used South Carolina Loyalists to fight in the Militia. The same as the Patriots did. Some wore redcoats while some did not. That means, the Loyalist Militia did bad bad things. The British get blamed for them, but it was the people from South Carolina that did it to themselves. This was more a Civil War in the Colony then a fight for independence. (Yes a church was burned. Nobody was in it when it burned though.)

2. Tarelton is the main culprit in the movie. Yet he only has one bad blemish to his record. He charged and killed surrendering soldiers. There are different accounts of this, but he takes the blame for the American point of view. The only other things of note was his pursuit of Francis Marion, and his loss at The Cowpens.

Wait a minute. Are you saying a movie isn't real? Mel is playing a fictional guy. As are many others

If it wasn't for the British you would all have to speak Spanish.

Oh, wait...

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I am a British lass. I see this film as a kind of blood libel against the British people. While atrocities occurred during the war, the most striking of the film's depictions of British atrocities, the burning of a church full of unarmed colonial civilians, had no factual basis and no parallel in the American or European 18th century wars, but that those atrocities bear such a close resemblance to war crimes carried out by German troops, particularly the SS in World War II. It's hard not to wonder if the filmmakers have some kind of subconscious agenda....They have made a film that will have the effect of inoculating audiences against the unique historical horror of Oradour and implicitly rehabilitating the Nazis while making the British seem as evil as history's worst monsters.

*I AM THE SCALES OF JUSTICE!.. CONDUCTOR OF THE CHOIR OF DEATH!..SING BROTHER HECKLER!..SING BROTHER KOCH!..SING BROTHERS, SING!..SING!!*

It's also a direct rip off of a scene in the film 'come and see' about the Nazis in Ukraine in the second world war.

Now if ever you wanted to see a film about the brutality of war then that is the one.