This might sound a little odd, but it is pretty typical of the way my mind works.  While gettng ready for work, I was ironing my clothes and I started thinking about the Revolutionary War.  From there my mind traveled wandered and started thinking about the British perspective of the Revolutionary War.  From my American perspective, it was the begining of our country.  A rather large part of American history, but from the British perspective do they talk about how a rag tag bunch of colonists beat them in a war and won freedom from the crown?  I was inclined to think not.  Even the name itself, would the Brits even call it the "Revolutionary War"?  Over the course of my life I've accumulated a couple of Brittish friends so I thought I'd pose the question to them to get my answer.  The conversation went as follows:  

Me:  What do British people call the American Revolutionary War?
Her:  It this a question or a joke?
Me:  A question, I'm curious.
Her:  The American Civil War?
Me:  No the one back from the 1700's.

She never responded after that.  When she said "American Civil War" my mind obviously went to the actual Civil War which is why I responded the way that I did, not even for a moment thinking that from the Brittish perspective, it may have been considered a civil war.  Not satisfied with that answer since she had ended it with a question mark, I turned to the internet in order to see if I could find the answer.  A quick Google search turned up a few pages where other people seemed to have had the same question.  There were a couple of different answers between the many responses of people on the site.  The most common of which ended up being "The War of American Idependance".  Amongst the answers was an explanation that got my mind really thinking.  First off, one person stated that it wasn't really covered in their educational system and joked "I don't understand how they (the Brittish) aren't in control of the entire world as they won every war that they were taught" about.  This kind of answered one of my original questions.  Makes sense I guess to a point.  The second point that someone made was at various points in history the Brittish empire was one of the largest and that they had territories all over the world.  America was just another territory that was lost over the course of time.  Almost as if they were just writting it off as no big deal.  Quite the concept if you think about it.  While the Revolutionary War and winning our independance was such a large part of America's short history to the vast history of England it is just a blip.  Proof in point that as open minded as I consider myself to be, there is a world of perspectives that I haven't even begun to explore or think about.  Which brings to mind the countless number of other things or ideas that I've got about the world based off of my narrow American perspective that maybe needs to be explored a little deeper.