What an a-s kicking Francis Marion gave to the thug General Tarlton. Of course, the Brits made it so easy with those bright red uniforms!
If you saw a historical film about a war where American troops locked the entire population of a town in a church and burned it to the ground, and no such incident or anything remotely like it actually happened in the war, would YOU be mad?
What an a-s kicking Francis Marion gave to the thug General Tarlton. Of course, the Brits made it so easy with those bright red uniforms!
Francis Marion never fought Tarleton. Marion RAN away from Tarleton in the swamps when Tarleton was ordered to catch him, and Tarleton gave up.
Tarleton DID get his ass kicked by Daniel Morgan at Cowpens. Marion wasn't even there.
And Tarelton's unit was comprised of American Loyalists, and wore Green, not Red.
The historical advisors for "The Patriot" made this known to the makers of the movie, who rejected this and other advice on uniforms and put all British forces in Red, on the premise that doing otherwise and having historically accurate uniforms would confuse stupid moviegoers too much.
Movies are a bad place to learn your history from, and "The Patriot" is one of the worst.