[NonValueAdded]

C’mon, man...that “burning the patriots alive in the church” scene was pure fantasy.

Yeah, the Brits would never ... cough, Cooper's tavern ... do anything ... ahem, Jason Russell House ... like that ... Wallabout Bay, Ruddle and Martin Stations ....

[RegulatorCountry]

To be fair, and in the interest of historical accuracy, it apparently happened on both sides, although it appears to have been far more of a British thing.

One of mine provided the following account in his pension application:

He pursued his brother to Salisbury in May 1780 and volunteered himself as a private for three months in Capt. Hughlett’s company. From that company he was transferred to Capt. William Bostick’s company in Gen. Rutherford’s army. He marched to Charlotte, then to the Cheraw Hills, SC. Across the Santee River, a party of Tories fired on us. We “immediately returned the salute,” the Tories wounded two of the company, and we killed two or three of the Tories. The Tories ran and “forted themselves” in a large church house. Eaton’s group had taken six British and five Tories. “The next morning we fired on their fort & they left it & run when we saved but one of them & burned the house.”

[Pharmboy]

I have certainly posted enough threads about the prison ships to know about the brutality of the Brits, but burning men, women and children alive in a church never happened. That was my point in answer to a specific post. That aspect of the film was fantasy...hey, war is hell, no argument, and the Brits ran hell for years; but I was speaking specifically of The Patriot's depiction.