 Further, the backstory given to the television show's Simcoe character being born and raised in British India, the son of a doctor who died in the Black Hole of Calcutta, is entirely fictional.The series also depicts Simcoe as starting his career in North America as a Captain in Setauket rather than as he actually had, as an Ensign (rank) in Boston.It also would claim that he had been defeated by the Spanish in Havana as a result of the outbreak of the Yellow Fever when his defeat had, in actuality, taken place while he was a general in Haiti, long after the American Revolution was over.