In high school during the 70s, we were told that Americans like to make their presidents greater than nature, stronger, nobler, etc... as if representing some ideal for the nation to strive for and that this myth-constructing started with a certain Mason Locke Weems's biography of George Washington portraying him as some kind of Puritan ideal. The presidential myths were part of what fed the notion of American Exceptionalism.
Here's a post I wrote on another forum, that reflects what we were taught by the Jesuits for a Canadian point of view about the Rebels and George Washington.
The so-called revolution was a con job by Ben Franklin and his rich protestant friends to get richer. They and Washington weren't happy with the Quebec Act because it protected Catholic Canadiens (gave them almost equal rights in exchange for their peace and allegiance) and guaranteed the Indians their territories west of the thirteen colonies as reward for having fought in the British side, territories that Washington and his expansionist landowner friends wanted to plunder. They made a fairy tale about rights and liberty to enroll the plebes to do their dirty work. Heck, if the Crown had granted Washington the promotion he so desired after the Seven Years war, he'd have fought on our side.
The so-called tea tax in fact made tea cheaper for the people in the colonies but that did not suit well the smugglers, some of whom were amongst the rebellion leaders.
Edit: For those who might not know, the term Canadiens is the name that was used for what we now call French-Canadians.