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Originally Posted by Astromancer

It would be valid for the war of 1812, which was a side effect of the Napoleonic wars. However, while we were having the American Revolutionary War here in North America, Europe was going through what they call The Wars of the American Revolution. The American event setting off the world war, rather than the world war setting off the American event.

I know one of the causes of the French Revolution was the American Revolution bankrupting France (after France got involved in the war, then the Treaty of Paris not having any provisions for France), but I hadn't heard of this "Wars of the American Revolution" reference. How do the UK and France refer to that war?

Of note: the Treaty of Paris refers to "the conflict between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the States of..." (proceeding to name each state individually), rather than to "the United States of America".