Actually according to many accounts the battle after she gave birth to one of her sons was actually the following day and she shot the Turkish pirates who were attacking.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/grace.html (Here's a link to one of my sources...)
So that scene was inaccurate in three ways, a) not the same day, b) gun, not sword and c) Turkish, not British...
Actually according to many
Actually according to many accounts the battle after she gave birth to one of her sons was actually the following day and she shot the Turkish pirates who were attacking.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/grace.html (Here's a link to one of my sources...)
So that scene was inaccurate in three ways, a) not the same day, b) gun, not sword and c) Turkish, not British...