What are some differences (if any) between historical fiction and fictional history?

I once read about two groups who were at war.  The losers said they won the war with tales of bravery and fictional battles they won.  To me that is fictional history. (don't remember the details, possibly in South America) Historical fiction, to me, is those who write about past events and change the story, we see it all the time in movies.  


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Historical fiction is not a required subject in Florida schools.

Historical fiction isn't supposed to be believed. And often better researched than fictional history.

When I was a kid in school, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was held up as some kind of paragon, "the Great Emancipator". He was - if you were white. To the First Nations people he was a genocidal butcher, but history lessons left that bit out. I was as tall as I am now before I found out what a brute he really was.

Historical fiction,  a historical event that has more details added to it that we do not have doctrumentation for.  But keeping the details we do. 

Fictional history, history recorded incorrectly.  

History is truth, if you can find it.  It cannot be fiction.    Historical fiction is fiction taking place during a historical time or historical event.