the patriot
The film The Patriot, directed by Roland Emmerich, and starring Mel Gibson, is about the time of the American Revolutionary War. It opens right before the colonies are about to go to war with England. It is a story about a single father with six children named Benjamin Martin, who is a veteran of Continental guerrilla warfare, from the French and Indian War days. He doesn't like war, or the idea of the colonies going to war because he's been through it -- in fact, he's been a rather vigorous participant in it, as is alluded to many times; but you never quite know what he's trying to cover up. It may be war crimes or something else pertaining to his service during the French and Indian war. The movie is misleading, because he's not actually the Patriot, his son is the Patriot. But I think he kind of takes a leaf out of his boy's book and eventually becomes very patrioti
------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. This movie was valid to the course in describing how the fighting tactics of the Continentals helped them to win the war. What he didn't know was that there was to be a battle right outside his home, and his oldest son would be wounded and come home for care. Francis Marion was a general for the continentals who taught his soldiers how to fight Guerilla style to keep them alive against the British who out numbered them, and out everything elsed them. If the whole war were fought in the "traditional" way, the colonies would never have had a chance against the British and their tactics and weapons. The British were organized and the Americans were out manned and outgunned and out supplied and out everything else. The author made it out to show the hero, Mel Gibson, as a war hero, but the character that he was playing, though fictional, was valid to the war. It also showed that without the help of the French navy, the British would never have been trapped in Yorktown, the last battle of the war. The morning after that happened, he took in all of the soldiers from both sides to care for them. This was their only way to fight against the superior force, really. It may have "Hollywoodized" the war a lot, but the basics were well laid out to the viewers that took an interest to the movie. As a veteran of the United States militia in the French and Indian war, Martin takes it upon himself to take revenge on the man/men who killed his son. It is based on Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox", whose tactics were hit and run maneuvers. The movie describes how important the militia, and the Guerilla warfare was to the revolutionary war.
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