While the movie, " The Patriot t", takes great liberties with the Revolution, I am so happy with the comments about the South's pivotal role in the Revolution. A sample: Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2000, section F:10, by Lawrence Toppman "A Northern historian who thinks the South gets too little respect? These don't grow on trees in the groves of academia. ; ;Robert Roder, screen writer of "Private Ryan", as well as " The Patriot". . .was raised in New Hampshire, educated at Colgate and Harvard Universities and now lives in Cambridge, Mass, his script for "The Patriot" might naturally have extolled the virtues of Minutemen. He had other ideas. . .You could make a case that the Revolution was started in the North, but won in the South at Kings Mountain, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, Yorktown. . .