It's been awhile since I read it, but I remember Winston Churchill in his biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough recounting a case of British soldiers setting fire to a building full of people in the waning days of the War of the Spanish Succession. It happened after Marlborough had been relieved of command.
Yeah they were Brutal.
Doesn’t make them less of a country now or less of an ally.
But history should be told the way it was.
Changing history is for communists and fascists.