Don’t think that war back then was genteel. The French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion, just before the Revolution, were insanely murderous affairs, with no quarter and butchery of the wounded, sometimes of women and children who were not enslaved. And many of the participants in the Revolution were veterans of those events.
Beck probably got his idea from the movie The Patriot, which depicted an occupied church being burned (itself based on a WWII event), but otherwise there is no documented Revolutionary War case of that. This is not to say that there weren’t plenty of other war crimes on both sides - mostly shooting of enemy soldiers who wanted to surrender.
British captives on Braddock’s march/massacre were burned alive.
I did indeed mention “the Patriot” in my comments. That’s part of what concerned me.
And being a casual student of the RevWar and the period, I’m pretty aware of how raw it could be. But not quite as bad as others think of it. There were “rules” generally, and often they were followed. I would never say overall they’d be at the level of a Moslem worldview, e.g. Yes, there was butchery, but not as a policy.
Ridiculous! Beck researches and reads. If you watched the show you would realize that his documentation is currently the best you will ever find. In the limited time he has on the air it is hard to condense but it is amazing how well he manages it.