The book states that
Robert Fulton invented the
submarine (p. 98), but this statement distorts the
history of submarines; various people had envisioned submarines in earlier eras, and a few had been built (such as the Turtle).
The book states that the 3477 deaths at the
Battle of Shiloh during the
Civil War was almost equal to the number who died in all eight years of the Revolutionary War (pp. 201). However about 8000 American Revolutionaries died in battle, with 25,000 dead from all causes over the course of that war.[1]
References
^American dead and wounded: John Shy, A People Numerous and Armed, pp. 249–50. The lower figure for number of wounded comes from Chambers, p. 849.