A revolution is the uprising of the people of the given state against an oppressor resulting in successful change in regimes. It is accompanied by ideals that are spread throughout the whole society and it is the society itself that fights against the oppressor through civil disobedience.
While you can say that american revolution also features the oppressor in the form of England this is a bit of stretch as the settlers were not fighting for some grand ideal that would change the regime but rather they simply fought to be free from the nation that was imposing control on them. This, is the really much more reminiscent of an open war conflict rather than social revolution of the people.
That is why the Bolshevik and the French revolution settings work as settings. American revolution is really a war between the settlers and the British Empire, which Britain remarkably lost.