People who loved, supported, and defended their land and fought for their rights to become an independent country

Those Americans who supported the war for independence against Great Britain.

The Patriots (in Dutch: Patriotten) were a political faction in the Netherlands in the second half of the eighteenth century. They struggled for the removal of the corrupt Stadtholder regime , and its nepotistic way of governing. Discontented with the decline of the economy after the Dutch Golden Age, the middle and upper classes looked towards the American Declaration of Independence, and started to reclaim their rights.

Another term for Ishin Shishi, and not necessarily a flattering one. ...none...