X-post: Just watched the movie "The Patriot," and out of curiosity looked up a British view of the [View all]

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history of the war: http://www.redcoat.me.uk/Rev-War.htm

"Despite all that has been written about the American Revolution, it seems that very little of what actually happened, or even the correct order that events occurred is known today by the vast majority of Americans. From birth they are taught the war was the utmost expression of liberty and nobility, a notion so sacrosanct that no one seems to question it.How many of them ever read beyond the first few words of the Declaration of Independence to discover the nonsense, fear-mongering, lies and baseless speculation that it contains? How many can see that the winners' efforts to justify their actions have left only one sided accounts,dominated by the grievances of some of the colonists, to be forever compounded by historical and jingoistic narratives that are as much to do with gratifying an opinionated psyche as anything else.So now, effectively unchallenged for well over two centuries and immortalized in American folk lore, is it time for a more objective account?"

Definitely very different from what I was taught here, to be sure. I'm not sure that's a mainstream British view, though. Will have to go looking for more info.