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Probably not. I mean fuck monarchies and all that, but that myth of a righteous revolution is definitely bullshit. One of the big reasons behind the increase of taxation was to pay for the defense of the colonies against other European powers while the colonies themselves were trading with them. I don't think there was really any "good" guys among the players between the Brits and the rich Colonists.
didn't the english bourgeois revolution happen like a century earlier too?
Yeah, somewhere around there. That's less outside my wheelhouse though. I'm still trying to unlearn all the US mythology I was taught as a kid.