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Reading Wikipedia articles from other countries is a good way to escape local bias, because other countries lack the incentives to prop up narratives. French Wikipedia paints the American Revolution as a violent and treasonous riot that started when Britain required the colonies to pay for their own defense:

The American Revolution is a period of political changes after 1763 in the thirteen British colonies of North America, which gave rise to the American War of Independence against Great Britain, with the help of France. The founding episode of the American nation and the birth of the United States, the revolution was manifested by violence against the British authorities, a war against English troops and social unrest.

More here, and once it adds foreign languages, Grokipedia will likely be the same.