Yup, I’m an American. Most of us don’t know damn near enough, and don’t care to know. I think that a lot of history is pretty interesting. It’s a record of the different ways that our ancestors and members of different groups were really smart, and really fucking stupid at the same time. Honestly, you don’t really need to know much about the American Revolution, or most any other period in US history. It’s about as important as me understandimg the history of France. I mentioned a lot of the important bits. The Revolution is portrayed as a resistance against oppression, with a ton of propaganda then and now. The Boston “Massacre” for example, not as much of a massacre as many of us pretend. The “taxation without representation” thing was pure bullshit. They knew damn well that the colonies wouldn’t have had anywhere near the amount of parliament seats to beat new taxes. Now there’s several US territories that pay taxes without representation, such as Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and DC itself. Britain was far from perfect, extremely far, but the US wasn’t really rebelling against any of the injustices perpetrated. Some African-Americans fought on both sides of the war effort in exchange for freedom. Tragically, that didn’t happen.