oooo i would love to so not retort to the so called superior british version of american history lmao, that would require a whole seperate thread, or at least i say i aint weg, but because i am such a naughty lil subbie (and history majior) here goes, and i do mean this as respectfully as possible :
though i can see after loosing two wars against us "colonials" the view would get slanted by those with political swing in england to lessen the lesson so to speak, a similar thing has went on in southern states (formerly known as slave states) over our little civil war and subsequent reconstruction ,,and one can see many other examples of the loosers attempting to re write history , look how bright and shiney athens made itself out to be with hindsight after loosing to sparta in a thirty year war that basically crushed athens hopes of empire permamently (which is exactly what athens was trying to do build an empire)
basically if i want an expert opinion on brittish history do i go to austrailia or america to get it? Likewise one may think it best to go to the horses mouth , for instance if i want to know about the different reason the brittish empire fell to pieces after ww2 or why brittian gave full support to the surrounding arab countries and did everything in thier power to stop the formation of isreal as a state, etc etc.
as for france wining the war for us, oh dear smh, the french (other than the young layfeyette who btw was an aide to washington) didnt really fight all that much here stateside, though a small bit of thier navy did show up to claim some glory when we finally finished the red coats off in the end of the war, but lets not go there really
all its going to do is start another debate and i am certian your scorces are just as credible to you as mine to me,