What ELSE Were the British Doing During the American Revolution?

Hey, yankee here. I hear often online that the reason British kids aren't taught much about the American Revolution - if at all - is because Britain "had other things going on at the time" and that the war was just a footnote in British history. Now, I understand that British history is *extremely* long and convoluted, spanning literally over a thousand years, but at the same time I fail to see why the Revolution is so unimportant. What else were the Brits up to?