How does your country remember the rebellions against it that led to independence for its colonies and protectorates?

Canada didn't have such a war really. We did have some Irish people who were none too pleased with the British, and so they raised Canada a number of times from America. Our war of national myth in terms of independence would be the First World War in many ways when it became more clearly distinguished from Britain. America basically had a civil war between British subjects with foreign intervention in 1774-1783. The Algerians fought so hard against the French that the army effectively carried out a quasi coup d'etat in 1958 to make De Gaulle president, and remember Algeria was an integral part of France like Hawaii is.