We simply don't know just what the level of support for the American revolutionaries was. A Chapter in 'Britain and the American Revolution' (ed. H.T. Dickinson) is emtitled 'The British Public and the American Revolution: Ideology, Interest and Opinion' by James E. Bradley fails to find any verifiable evidence that ordinary British people supported the Anericans. Historians from both sides of the ideological divide have tried but have only managed to show that support was mainly confined to members of what we would now call the 'professional' and self employed lower middle classes.

Roy Palmer, in his The Sound of History: Somgs and Social Comment' states that 'The American War of Independence gave rise to a cinsiderable body of songs, on both sides' but fails to give a single example of songs about the war itself. He discusses one about a maiden's determination to join her boyfriend in the fighting.

Last thought - the War of 1812 is indeed little known in the UK. As one historian recently said - three countries were involved, two think they won it and the third doesn't know it was in it.