The military history website here contains a great deal of information about battles fought over the centuries by British soldiers. The “Red Coat” shown above is from the page about the Battle of Roucoux fought in Flanders in 1746. An interesting aspect of this commercial website is the issues it raises about objectivity toward historical events. No less than 23 of the battles described are from the American Revolutionary War, which the British lost. The information about battles I looked at from that war seemed accurate and straightforward to me. My conviction is that because historical accounts found on the open Internet can be read anywhere in the world, a new standard of objectivity is created. As always, nonetheless, it is better scholarship to study more than one source than to rely on complete objectivity of a single source. History
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