Maybe the “Patriot” writers were reliving a Nazi church burning in France.
Beck should find of interest the treatment after the war of those who remained loyal to the British crown. Not everyone felt the revolution was the best thing to have take place.
The province of New Brunswick was created for the purpose of quartering Brits run out of America at the end of the war.
They, too, do American Revolution re-enactments, but from the "other side".