Rafts a better choice than canoes

When the fugitive soldiers had to fashion canoes out of trees they seem to have produced a number of axes that hadn't been in evidence before. Indeed, when they set off they all seemed very lightly loaded, with just a small haversack - the sort of thing I carry on an eight-hour walk. At least a couple of ropes were being carried, used to scale the walls of the fort.

Considering the Seminoles were in hot pursuit, the soldiers seemed to have plenty of time to fell some very substantial trees and hollow them out in to well-finished canoes. A much faster alternative would have been the construction of rafts.

Still, it's a good film. Comparisons have been made with Operation Burma, but to my mind it's more like the misleadingly-named North West Passage, which also featured an expedition of tough soldiers who quickly accomplished their mission to wipe out an Indian settlement, but ran into trouble getting home. They too rescued personable female prisoners and split in to groups.