Factual error: It appeared that, during the engagement with the Serapis, every hit by either ship's guns resulted in an explosion and fire. Unfortunately, explosive shells wouldn't be used on shipboard (aside from bomb vessels) until the next century.
John Paul Jones (1959)
1 factual error - chronological order
Directed by: John Farrow
Starring: Robert Stack, Charles Coburn, Erin O'Brien, Marisa Pavan
Factual error: It appeared that, during the engagement with the Serapis, every hit by either ship's guns resulted in an explosion and fire. Unfortunately, explosive shells wouldn't be used on shipboard (aside from bomb vessels) until the next century.
Esek Hopkins: Whoever heard of sending Marines to fight on the land?