The American revolutionists fought the British who they saw as an occupying power. Those settlers who...?

True patriot? What a crock. At least make a decent ogy. Yours doesn't make any sense at all. I seriously doubt that such a large percentage of American revolutionaries were actually foreigners, that the revolutionaries went to such great lengths to murder civilians in markets and police in the streets. How exactly can any sane person call a foreigner that terrorizes and murders citizens of the country they are actually in as a 'patriot' of that country? The relatives of those murdered certainly don't view these intruders as 'patriots'.