Happy 4th of July, folks! This video shows the American revolution, along with the European theater, the 4th Anglo-Dutch War, and the 2nd Anglo-Mysore War. In which John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes . Resentment of taxes following the Seven YearsWar (1756-1763) caused many British colonies in North American to begin resisting Crown authority from the . Every week of the American Revolutionary War. (1775-1783) Dark Red: Great Britain and its colonies Red: Occupied territory Light Red: Gains made that week .