If we’re going to pontificate on relative evils between foes, let us ask whether or not King George’s army considered our rag-tag gang of “terrorists” worse than the Taliban, and took a moment to piss on their corpses, too. I have a hard time believing the 40’s generation would be prone to cheer either way.
I think King George considered the colonists to be rebels, but terrorists? Hardly. They were his subjects, and were civilized Englishmen.
That said, the British exercised immense brutality against the American colonists during the Revolution. Read up on the experiences of those Americans who were captured in battle and confined to prison ships. I think many of them would have preferred death to what they endured.
The British were a rapacious, pillaging force, who showed little mercy to their American kin, whether they were uniformed or civilian. What our Marines did to the bodies of those dead Taliban is mild compared to what King George's soldiers did to us.