no wonder you seem "lost in the woods". obviously, what you have been reading is 3d,4th,5th hand BILGE from the REVISIONIST schools. (should you decide to go read the sources they claim to have used, you will FREQUENTLY find that they either:
a. never read the source document at all AND/OR
b. they INTENTIONALLY LIED about what it said.
to LEARN anything of VALUE, you must turn OFF your computer & go dig into microfilm/microfische,read dusty tomes in the basement & read the PRIMARY SOURCE material.
to paraphrase Professor Arnold Toynbee: there is NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING, that you can learn from a study of REVISIONIST historiography other than that there is NOTHING of value, that you can learn from studying REVISIONIST historiography!
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It is just hard to post data from my "Grant's Memoirs" in this tiny box.