FTA:
"In 1776 the American colonists rebelled against what they saw as the arbitrary and tyrannical British monarchy."
I like the sly use of "what they saw" - typical British snark.
There's plenty of American historiography that questions the motivations of the American revolution and how tyrannical the British monarchy was actually.
There's plenty of American historiography that questions the motivations of the American revolution and how tyrannical the British monarchy was actually.