Patriot

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Contents 1 Politics 2 Military 3 Newspapers 4 Observances 5 Sports 6 Fiction 7 Technology 8 Other 9 See also

A patriot is someone who thinks, feels or voices expressions of patriotism, support for their country.

Patriot or Patriots may also refer to:

[edit] Politics

• Patriot (American Revolution) those who supported the cause of American independence in the American Revolution
• USA PATRIOT Act, an act of federal legislation in the United States passed in response to the attacks of September 11
• Patriots (faction), a Dutch group that was opposed to the Orangists in the United Provinces in the 18th century
• Parti Patriote, a political party for Quebec nationalism in the early 19th century
• Les Patriotes, those who supported independence for what is now Québec, Canada, during the Lower Canada Rebellion
• Christian Patriot movement, a far-right Christian conservative movement in the United States
• Patriot Party, various political parties

[edit] Military

• Patriot War of 1837–1838, a campaign in eastern Michigan in the United States and in the Windsor, Ontario area of Canada
  • Hunter Patriots, the rebels defeated in the Patriot War
• MIM-104 Patriot, a surface-to-air missile system (SAM)
• USS Patriot (MCM-7), a U.S. Navy mine countermeasures ship
• Patriot, a fictional assault pistol with anomalous properties used in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

[edit] Newspapers

• The Patriot Ledger, a newspaper covering the south shore of Massachusetts
• California Patriot, a conservative student magazine of the University of California, Berkeley
• The Lebanon Patriot, a now-defunct American newspaper published weekly in Lebanon, Ohio
• The Patriot, the student newspaper of the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky

[edit] Observances

• Patriot Day, a U.S. holiday established in remembrance of those killed in the September 11th attacks
• Patriots' Day, a holiday in the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin in honor of Lexington and Concord.

[edit] Sports

• New England Patriots, an American football team of the National Football League, based in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
• El Paso Patriots, a soccer team of the USL Premier Development League, based in El Paso, Texas
  • Patriot Stadium, a soccer stadium in El Paso, Texas
• Fayetteville Patriots, a defunct basketball team of the National Basketball Development League team, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina
• Ozark Patriots, a baseball team based in Ozark, Alabama
• Somerset Patriots, a minor league baseball team based in Bridgewater, New Jersey
• George Mason Patriots, the name given to the athletics teams from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia

The Patriots is also the name for various sports teams for North MiddleSex Regional HighSchool In Townsend, MA, and Watauga High School in Boone, NC

[edit] Fiction

• Okraina (1933 film) aka The Patriots, a Soviet film by Boris Barnet
• Patriots (Metal Gear), a secret society in the Metal Gear video game series
• Patriot (comics), two separate fictional comic book superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe
• Patriot (computer game), a 1993 strategy game about the Gulf War

[edit] Technology

• Patriot Memory, a manufacturer of computer random access memory modules and flash memory devices.
• Whelen Patriot Lightbar, Whelen Engineering Company, INC.

[edit] Other

• LMS Patriot Class, a class of express passenger steam locomotive
• Patriot (Worlds of Fun), a roller coaster in Worlds of Fun amusement park
• Patriot, Indiana, a town in the U.S.
• Patriot, Ohio, a town in the U.S.
• Jeep Patriot, a compact SUV manufactured by Chrysler, LLC
• UAZ Patriot, a mid-sized SUV manufactured by UAZ

[edit] See also

• The Patriot
• Patriot Games (disambiguation)

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