Worst American Revolution Chieches

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We have a quite successful thread on American Civil War AH cliches, so I decided to start one on the American Revolution.

What are the ones that bother you the most? How about the ones that reappear despite being proven wrong? Your answer does not need to tied to timelines on the site, it can be from literature, other sites, movies, ect.
 
All of the clichés are evil, you just have choose the lesser one for your TL to turn out right. And didn't a mod stop the non-confederate cliché thread?
 
Canada almost never being mentioned itself

"Canada" was still synonymous with "Quebec" at this point of time. The name "Quebec" as a province, and not merely city, only came in 1763 - a dozen years before the ARW began in 1775. Nova Scotia was only just being settled and was virtually an outpost, PEI was only formed in 1769 and WAS an outpost, and Newfoundland had a tiny permanent population that only finally stopped being harassed by the French with the Seven Years' War ending.

When you hear Canada in those days, you're thinking of Quebec, and vice-versa.
 
Canada revolting along with the Thirteen Colonies; if the revolution is crushed, there is never another revolution and it remains administered directly by Great Britain into the modern day. I think these are probably the single two most over-used cliches when it comes to the American Revolutionary War.
 
Did India get the absolute worst the British had to offer colonies?

No.

Which really says something about how bad British colonialism was.

Anyways, the thing about the American Revolution was that both sides had entirely legitimate concerns. The colonials were entirely legitimate about how their taxes should have gone through their representatives. And the British were entirely legitimate about how some of the money they spent protecting the colonies should come out of the colonials' pockets.
 
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That it fails, and yet the colonies still manage to spread to all of OTL USA and Canada as if those territories were going to inevitably conquered just because.
 
That it fails, and yet the colonies still manage to spread to all of OTL USA and Canada as if those territories were going to inevitably conquered just because.

This.

That the main driving force behind it wasn't the desire to protect Slavery, conquer more Native American lands, and not pay taxes for the substantial Armies the British needed to keep in the colonies.
 
The myth that the British were utterly evil.
That King George III was a freedom-crushing tyrant, and was entirely responsible for the whole thing, with parliament rarely being mentioned.

This, like totally, undeniably, this. As a American myself, I can make testament to the fact, at least in New York, that the British (during this period) are barely ever pictured as more than the unsympathetic bad guys during non-college level educational classes.

Even though I'm patriotic towards my nation's independence, it certainly wasn't black and white, and both sides committed some injustices. The one teacher I had who did best in avoiding this showed every class the HBO John Adams show's depiction of tarring and feathering. It's incredibly difficult to watch that and not see there was more complex morality than usually taught.

Canada revolting along with the Thirteen Colonies

I can't help but enjoy this cliche when done well enough, but it makes me twitch when the reasons for it joining come out of left field.
 
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