The two sides in the American Revolution were the British Army and their colonial patriot followers as well as the American Revolutionary troops. They opposed that the British Army attempted to counter the American territories from acquiring in their power and building a sovereign nation. The American Colonial Forces required to separate free from British command and set a freely controlled state of their own.
The two sides in the American Revolution were the British Army and their colonial "loyalist" supporters as well as the American Revolutionary forces. They differed in that the British Army sought to prevent the American colonies from succeeding from their control and establishing an independent country. The American Colonial Forces wanted to break free from British rule and establish an independently ruled nation of their own.