Patriots War Of Independence

People in the americas felt they werent being treated fairly by the british.

Patriots war of independence. During the american revolutionary war british loyalists made up approximately 1520 percent of the. They are celebrated as the original american patriotsthe reluctant citizen soldiers who won the revolutionary war. They were being taxed without any say or representation in the british government. It is impossible to know the exact number of american colonists who favored or opposed independence.

Patriots were members of the 13 british colonies who rebelled against british control during the american. Patriots were those colonists of the thirteen colonies who rejected british rule during the american revolution and declared the united states of america as an independent nation in july 1776. Yet the patriots battle for independence was to the british crown not war but rebellion. Patriots and loyalists the patriots.

They wanted their own country called the united states. Patriots were people who wanted the american colonies to gain their independence from britain. Slavery during the revolution. An uprising of once.

Why did people become patriots. Patriots represented the spectrum of social economic and ethnic backgrounds. From the perspective of george iiis ministry the american cause was an insurgency. When some 700 british regulars were ordered into the massachusetts countryside on.

5 unsung heroes of the revolutionary war by william mclaughlin washington gates and even francis marion the swamp fox are well known leaders on the battlefields of the american war of independence but there were plenty of heroes whose tales are not told in history class and others whose heroic deeds were overshadowed by other events.