Good catch! It's easy to forget that the Revolutionary War did take place within a geopolitical context, that it was fed by a past and would ripple out into the future.

I don't know if it's still taught this way sometimes, but the peculiarities of the American Revolution versus other colonial wars was big--but iirc they missed the point, which was that it was a war of Colonists aka colonizers and not of the colonized.

What happens when the fish can't see the water and writes about swimming. The default diaspora is discounted.