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Definition of Patriots
1. patriot [n] - See also: patriot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patriots
Literary usage of Patriots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"... enterprise—The Schelde bridge completed—Description of the structure—Position
of Alexander and his army—La Motte attempts in vain Ostend— patriots gain ..."
2. The History of the Civil War in America: Comprising a Full and Impartial by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1866)
"OCCUPATION BY THE patriots. THE patriot army having reached the ... Across the
fiat at the base of the hill, and up its slope, the patriots rushed with ..."
3. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"They said that many patriots were unjustly mingled in the prisons with aristocrats,
but that these patriots should be picked out, and liberty and arms given ..."
4. Publications by American Folklore Society (1905)
"All the armed movements of the patriots from the attack at St. Charles and the
battle of Yonge Street to the Hunter raids at Prescott and Windsor were ..."
5. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... Secret—Extracts from Letters and Diary of Morris—Speculations— France on
Morris's Shoulders—Jefferson's Views of Proper Objects of the patriots— Sack of ..."
6. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"in a joint resolution "expressive of the sympathy of Congress for the exiled
Irish patriots, Smith O'Brien and Thomas F. Meagher ..."
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