Daniel Boone

The real Israel Boone was killed in the Battle of Blue Licks, Kentucky on August 19, 1782.

The Onandaga chief in this episode is called Blackfish which was the name of a real life Shawnee chief during the time Daniel Boone first settled in Kentucky.

As menitoned in the episode, Daniel Boone actually knew Abraham Lincoln's grandfather who had the same name as his famous grandson.

Tom Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were the real life parents of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Nancy died when Abraham was young and Tom got re-married to his old flame mentioned in this episode, Sarah Bush, who was by then widowed herself.

Count de Rochambeau was the actual commander of the French troops sent to America to aid the Patriot cause during the Revolutionary War.

The real Johnny Appleseed was a pioneer who planted large numbers of apple trees in the frontier areas of Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His real name was John Chapman.

In the scene where the crippled Niska falls trying to use the crutches made for him by Israel you can see his legs clearly move.

Gideon's back, which was worked over with a whip, appears to recover much quicker than if such an event had really happened.

George Keymas' character is supposed to be Portuguese so why does he speak with a French accent?

This episode is accurate when it points out that many Tories (Americans who remained loyal to Britain in the Revolutionary War) were forced to flee to Canada after the war ended and had their property confiscated by the new American government.

As was stated in this episode, Count de Rochambeau, who had commanded French troops on American soil during the American Revolution, was arrested during the French Revolution. However, he managed to escape the guillotine.

This episode is set in a Pennsylvania town where the settlers have had recent troubles with the Choctaws but in reality the Choctaws during that period lived hundreds of miles to the south in Mississippi and Alabama.

Although having British marines pursue a deserter deep into the American hinterlands seems to be very historically inaccurate, the British Navy did have a severe problem with its personnel deserting in American ports or to American ships. The American government quite often refused to return these deserters to British jurisdiction. This situation was one of the causes of the War of 1812.

Nitpick: Kind of strange that British marines would legally be allowed to search for a fugitive on American soil.

Nitpick: Daniel sure brought Rebecca in quickly from Boonesborough to pose as a British lady in order to save Mingo and Jeremiah's bacon. It's almost as though they had a frontier train, jet, or automobile.

Here's a case of a writer not doing his historical homework when Sgt. Reynolds mentions that if the British had had a few more men like Daniel in General Braddock's army they wouldn't have suffered such a terrible defeat from French and Indian forces in 1756. Had the writer done his homework he would have known that Daniel Boone was present at that battle having served as a wagon driver for British and colonial forces.

The real Pierre Beaumarchais was a French playwright who wrote the classic plays, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. Both were later turned into operas by Mozart. Beaumarchais was a supporter of the Patriot cause during the Revolutionary War and contributed a great deal of his own money in furtherance of it although there's no evidence he ever set foot upon American soil as depicted in this episode.

Nitpick: Mingo sustains a leg wound at the beginning of the episode and is forced to use a crutch to walk but by the middle of the episode both the crutch and the limp are gone.

John Ireland's false moustache nearly falls off on several occasions.

For one of the few times on the series, the Native Americans are on horseback in this episode. Almost every other time they are on foot.