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Originally Posted by Wiotte
That movie had the British government protesting it. They didn't like how the Redcoat officer was portrayed as a brutal sociopath. You don't get to conquer half the known world being a nice guy.
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The guy Mel Gibson portrayed. The real person was quite far from the hero of the movie
The Patriot.
Francis Marion - Wikipedia
Probably who Marion County, FL is named after?
The Swamp Fox
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History | Smithsonian
Francis Marion is quite interesting but a very complicated person and definitely fit in with how gray many of the leaders were as opposed to being kind of black and white as far as what side they were on. Talking about good and evil.