Charley, funnily enough, with ref: your comments above. We i.e the Brits. do not seem to have writen anything about 'our', admittadly few, victories 'gainst you damn colonials! I can only think of 'Shannon & the Chesepeake', ner a song about burning Washington etc
However getting back to this thread, I do think that if anyone is writing about an historical event they should get the facts right, before they write it, even if they are making pure comments on the cause of,lets say a disater. The song PQ17 I feel is a good example. If writen immediatly after an event before all the facts were known, then inacuracies can well be overlooked.