"A Republic, if you can keep it. (which we have not kept well)
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
It betrays an utter ignorance to the causes of the Revolution, and the current of thought present in America at that time.
No, the American Revolutionary soldier truly was fighting for freedom from tyranny in a way that Joan of Arc wouldn't have had a concept of.