Did you know the movie The Patriot was based on the American Revolutionary War? What happened in Hollywood was a little different from what happened in history so I’m going to tell you all about it. Some characters are fictional like the characters Benjamin Martin and Gabriel Martin but they are based off of other great heroes from the American Revolutionary War. The Battle of Cowpens was a blood bath and you're going to have a little insight of how it happened during the Revolutionary War. I think the movie The Patriot was somewhat accurate because Benjamin Martin did a good job at being Francis Marion, the battle of Cowpens was really described thoroughly in the movie and the surrender of General Cornwallis was so accurate in the movie. Did you know that Benjamin Martin is a fictional character? Well if you didn’t I’m going to tell you a little about who Benjamin Martin is based off of. Benjamin Martin is based off of Francis Marion, who was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. But if you …show more content…
The Americans inflicted heavy casualties on the British, and the battle was a turning point in the war’s Southern campaign. According to This Day in History “After the British scored victories in South Carolina at Charleston and Camden, Nathanael Greene, decided to divide Patriot troops in order to force the larger British chance under General Cornwallis to fight them on multiple front and because smaller groups of men were easier for the Patriots to feed”. But in Hollywood Nathanael Greene determined that he needed time to improve his army. He decided to split his force and assigned command of the more mobile force to Daniel Morgan. General Cornwallis recognized the strategy and sent his own mobile force under Banastre Tarleton after