Nonfiction publishers have fact-checkers? That's new. (That is pretty new, and still quite rare: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/publishing-books-er

Nonfiction publishers have fact-checkers? That's new. (That is pretty new, and still quite rare: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/publishing-books-errors.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/publishing-books...) I'm still not sure why I should be regarding Burrough's account as more likely to be true to historical fact than all of the other accounts I've been able to find. If nothing else, he, and you, have got an uphill battle in convincing anyone that his account is right, and everyone else's is wrong. You don't seem to recognize that. Perhaps he does. You seem to be quite familiar with the book; maybe he's more willing to support the claim than you so far have been, and has something better to offer than simple assertion. If you don't want to go to the trouble of trying to find references of your own, why not at least copy out whatever on the subject can be found in his bibliography?