The military rebellion?

Does "the military rebellion" refer to "the military rebellion (launched by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies which joined together as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America)"?

Context:

The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the American War of Independence,^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War#cite_note-10} or simply the Revolutionary War in the United States, was the military rebellion against http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies which joined together as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America in July 1776. Originally limited to fighting in those colonies, after 1778 it also became a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war between Britain and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_France, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Spain, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mysore.^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War#cite_note-11}