I agree.
The Revolutionary War was fought for two years before declaring our independence from the crown.
Another interesting thing I read is that the British Army struggled to find recruits in England to fight in this war, so unpopular was the it amongst the English, who saw their colonial bretheren as fellow Englishmen (as many of the colonials themselves also did), so they recruited heavily amongst the Catholic Irish and Scottish Highlands, where Jacobite sentiment had been strongest, and to a lesser extent, Lancashire and the West Midlands, where Jacobite sympathies had gained more traction than anywhere else in England.
In London, they were circulating collections for the widows and orphans of continental militiamen who had been as they put it ‘murdered by the King’s troops at or near Lexington’, and many officers categorically refused to fight in the Americas. Even the ones that did get sent, Cornwallis, Howe, Clinton, Burgoyne etc where quite Whiggish in their sympathies were fairly unenthusiastic about their task and seemed more sympathetic to the colonists aims and grievances than those of the Government that had sent them there to try and suppress them. Burgoyne even ended up joining the Rockingham Whigs and became opposed to the war.