One of my history professors once took an aside to note that the American “Revolution” is a bad name for the event, because there was very little change in powe

One of my history professors once took an aside to note that the American “Revolution” is a bad name for the event, because there was very little change in power structures: the people in power before the war, were largely still in power after. War for independence, yes. Revolution? Eh, not really.