Historical Errors?

Rating: Null/10 (16 April 2003)

For entertainment I think the Patriot does just that. But just to see how many you can list, the amount of historical errors and loop holes you can spot in the spot the movie?
1. All Brits did not wear the same uniform. 2. Tavington's unit, the "Green Dragoons", is based on Lt. Col. Banastre Tarelton's (First name pronounced like "Banister", just like on your railing going down yours stairs) unit, the Green Dragoons, who surprisingly enough, wore Green! 3. RevWar Battle's weren't fought as portrayed in the movie which shows, basically like an 18th century paintings (little isolated groups fighting little other isolated groups. They were fought in tight shoulder-to-shoulders units. 4. The house in the middle of the Cowpens battle (last battle) is in Civil War era! 5. The British didn't march like Nazi's. 6. The French Navy wasn't at the shores of Yorktown. 7. From an elevation point, Yorktown goes uphill from the American seige line, not downhill. 9. Mel Gibson's character is Benjamin Martin (struggles to protect his family) based on Francais Marion (Indian Hater, Gambler, fled from his wife after he stole everything from her)
Those are just a few...Anyone else?
I also found it amusing that that Mel Gibson (white plantation owner) has black attendants working his farm, yet they are not slaves, and the British are portrayed as monsters....ugh, If people are to portray American History, they should atleast portray it right.