The Patriot: Not Historically Accurate To The Revolutionary War

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The 2000 movie The Patriot is a good movie.It is a kind of fiction more more than a factual movie.Although it tells a good tale , it somewhat isn’t used to tell real events.The periods and even the characters have factual errors.The Patriot is not historically accurate to the Revolutionary War because Benjamin Martin is different, the Battle of Cowpens is changed around, and the surrender of Cornwallis is switched around.

First, The Patriot is not historically accurate to the Revolutionary War because Benjamin Martin is shown differently.In the movie “The Patriot”, Benjamin Martin is a militia leader based largely on Francis Marion, the famed "Swamp Fox," whose guerrilla tactics helped keep the war alive in South Carolina, where conventional