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Though critics faulted ... The Patriot for attributing actions to the hated British Legion that were in fact those of the SS in WWII, Edgar ( History / Univ.

of South Carolina ) writes that atrocities were many in the South Carolina backcountry: women and children slaughtered, prisoners executed without trial, whole towns put to the torch ...." In the 1990s instead of the 1780s, such as Banastre Tarleton and James Wemyss would have been indicted by the International Tribunal at the Hague as war criminals.