>tfw the american revolutionary war started by <1% of the population's top shipping magnates from 1 port city being forced to pay 1.5% more tax due to a costly decade long war to protect them, so those shipping magnates pay the local drunks 5 pence to start riots and then it gets out hand, so fuck it, let's just start a war (which the French will win for us)
Little bit less glorious that the idea of a rag-tag group of patriots single-handedly defeating a tyrannical king's empire, eh?
t. unironically the subject of a fucking monarch