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| Tango01 | 10 Jul 2026 2:00 p.m. PST |
"Contrary to popular perception, the American Revolution wasn't all muskets, bayonets and Mel Gibson running around with a tomahawk. I have a love-hate relationship with Mel Gibson's film, "The Patriot." On the one hand, it's a highly entertaining movie about a topic virtually untouched by Hollywood. On the other, the movie is so replete with historical inaccuracies that one viewing is enough to send even the moderately educated history enthusiast into violent, mouth-frothing convulsions.
But, the simple fact is that "The Patriot" is likely representative of the general view of the American Revolution. Though Americans live, work and play in a nation that directly resulted from the events of 1776 and beyond, 250 years removed, the actual details of who fought, how they fought and the guns with which they armed themselves are generally lost to all but a few die-hard historians. For most Americans, their view of the fighting in North America is largely an abstraction, even a caricature of real events…" link Armand
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