Also in the part about Yorktown at the end when the Americans surrounded the British and the French Rolled in by the sea to complexly surround them shoed to hold true. "It was the French fleet-ironically, the same one defeated by the British under Admiral Rodney the next year in the West Indies-that bottled up Cornwallis at Yorktown. Outnumbered and surrounded, the British commander surrendered (Oct. 19, 1781), and the fighting was over. The rebels had won the American Revolution (Columbia Encyclopedia)." As much though as I though that there was historical accuracy I also believe that there was a lot of in accuracy.
When the British soldiers came on to the plantation of Benjamin Martin he made a statement, which gave the blacks the right to fight with the British, and they would earn their freedoms. They responded by stating that they were already free and that they worked the land because they wanted to. I believe this part to be false and in accurate. There was not much slave liberation at this point in history. Slave liberation did not occur until the 19th century. It also did not depict the cruel environments that the slaves went through at the time. .
Summary.
It's the summer of 1776 and Rebellion is in the air. Benjamin Martin, a hero of the French and Indian Wars, is a widower who has settled down to the life of a farmer in South Carolina. Something from his war experiences haunts him, and he has renounced violence. When the Charleston Assembly votes to join the rebellion, a friend from Benjamin's past, Col. Burwell, tries to recruit him to join the Continental Army. After all, Burwell says, everyone still remembers Benjamin's exploits at Fort Wilderness during that war. Benjamin still wants nothing to do with the looming hostilities. "I have seven children," he says. "My wife is dead. Who's to care for them if I go to war?" But his eldest son, Gabriel, has no such qualms; he defies his father's will and joins the army.
