How is the American Revolution taught in the UK?

[Pope Alfred]

At the least they could teach it as the british civil war, that ended in a stalemate.

Britain has had many civil wars. The only one usually named as such was 1642 - 51, but before that we had the Anarchy (1134 - 54), the Wars of the Roses (1455 - 85), the Barons' wars, the De Montfort rebellion, the War of the Three Kingdoms (1689 - 1745)... there have been so many more, it's just a matter of where you draw the line between a war and a smaller conflict.

The American War of Independence was not fought on home ground, so we think of it as a foreign war. As long as America belonged to us, it was a rebellion.