However, at least one modern historian believes the accusations were exaggerated by his enemies.

One modern historian suggests the hurricane passed much closer to the province than previously thought.

As one modern historian has put it, it was simply too little and too late.

Unlike the modern historian, most chroniclers tended to take their information as they found it, and made little attempt to separate fact from legend.

He also provides the modern historian with several pieces of crucial information not found elsewhere.