To be perfectly fair I think that, at least in the U.S., it's more fair to say that the "revolution" occurred even before the first British troops had landed, a

To be perfectly fair I think that, at least in the U.S., it's more fair to say that the "revolution" occurred even before the first British troops had landed, and was as nearly bloodless as it might be possible to be. The bloodshed came when British tried to regain control over a country already lost to the revolution.