It must have occurred to anyone who is a student of history that the "story" is written by the victors. Therefore something might very well have happened and have been handed down by word-of-mouth through generations, but when a heckler demands to know "what's the source," the documentation is hard to come by.
                              Consider the factions that control what is published in the mean stream media today, and the many issues that you, yourself, might know a great deal about, and how often what is reported to the public is blatantly wrong. But you saw what you saw, and you know what you know, while the public continues to believe the fairy tale because you simply don't have a microphone.