Doug, I did not answer your question about who are the victors. Let me see if I can say this where it makes sense... It's the winners who usually want to impose Their View of What Happened upon everyone else; and whether or not it's actually True, Their View becomes Fact after so long, and people don't like to have their long-held ideas challenged. I think that more and more modern writers and historians are doing research to go beyond some of those ingrained beliefs, but there are still people out there who think the earth is flat, so to speak.The Losers usually have their own version of events too, but nobody wants to believe them, because after all, they Lost.
I guess that's where the revisionists come in.