Pitt now expected a new government to be formed led by Pulteney and dominated by Tories and Patriot Whigs in which he could expect a junior position.

The administration formed by the Pelhams in 1744, after the dismissal of Carteret, included many of Pitt's former Patriot allies, but Pitt was not granted a position because of continued ill-feeling by the King and leading Whigs about his views on Hanover.

Similar subsidies had been an issue of past disagreement, and they were widely attacked by Patriot Whigs and Tories.

* Patriot Whigs

The conquest of a port in Spain's American empire was widely considered a foregone conclusion by many Patriot Whigs and opposition Tories who pressed a reluctant Walpole to launch larger naval expeditions to the Gulf of Mexico.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

Pitt led the young " Patriot " Whigs and in 1756 became secretary of state, where he was a pro-freedom speaker in British Colonial government.

* Horace Walpole and Sir Charles Hanbury Williams-The Lessons for the Day ( satire on William Pulteney, Bolingbroke, and the " Patriot Whigs ").

From the day of his dismissal to that of his ultimate triumph, Pulteney remained in opposition, forming the Patriot Whigs, a group of fellow Whigs who felt that Walpole was corrupt and tyrannical.

Like many Patriot Whigs, Lord Sandwich was opposed to Britain's support of Hanover and strongly opposed the deployment of British troops on the European Continent to protect it, instead arguing that Britain should make greater use of its naval power.

This misjudgment was later used by the Patriot Whigs to castigate the Ministry for their lack of preparation against the French threat.

He came under continuous attack from Pitt and the Patriot Whigs who despised his European policy, pointing to their belief that the previous war had shown that increasingly North America was the most important theatre of war.

There was pressure in London too from Patriot Whigs who felt the time was ripe for British America to expand into the interior.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | William Pitt was the leader of the Patriot Whigs, and a constant thorn in Newcastle's side.

He generally aligned with the government Whigs, rather than the Patriot Whig faction that opposed them.

He became increasingly associated with the Patriot Whigs, those most critical of Walpole, but in Parliament generally stuck to the official line of the ministry.

* Patriot Whigs

Others, such as James Thomson and Henry Brooke, were also writing such " patriotic " ( which is to say in support of the Patriot Whigs ) plays at the time, and Henry Carey was soon to satirize the failed promise of George II.

The critics of British rule called themselves Whigs after 1768, identifying with members of the British Whig party ( including the Radical Whigs and Patriot Whigs ), who favored similar colonial policies.

* Patriot Whigs

* Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party

* Patriot Day ( United States )

The next year, Seagal made The Patriot, another environmental thriller which was his first direct-to-video release in the United States ( though it was released theatrically in most of the world ).

* Christian Patriot movement, a far-right Christian conservative movement in the United States

* Patriot War of 1837 – 1838, a campaign in eastern Michigan in the United States and in the Windsor, Ontario area of Canada

* Patriot League, a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States.

The Patriot League is a college athletic conference comprising private institutions and two United States service academies of higher education based in the Northeast United States.

The Patriot League consists of eight core members: American University, United States Military Academy ( Army ), Bucknell University, Colgate University, College of the Holy Cross, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, and the United States Naval Academy ( Navy ).

After raising a Patriot flag, they replaced it with the United States flag.

Nolan ran as an opponent of the United States Patriot Act, the income tax and foreign military bases, calling for bringing home American troops.

If you have something that you don ’ t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn ’ t be doing it in the first place, but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it ’ s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act.

The United States Patriot Act greatly expanded the abilities of police authorities (' cybercops ') to collect data from the Internet.

In the United States, the politically controversial USA Patriot Act and other government action has brought some of these issues to the citizen's attention, raising two main questions-to what extent, for the sake of national security, should individual rights and freedoms be restricted and can the restriction of civil rights for the sake of national security be justified?

In 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, Raytheon's Patriot missile received great international exposure, resulting in a substantial increase in sales for the company outside the United States.

During the 1991 Gulf War, Raytheon received widespread publicity in the United States in connection with its manufacture of the Patriot missile ( MIM-104 Patriot ).

The British commandant replied that he would attack the Patriot camp and pursue them into the United States.

As part of the response to the attacks, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, which again mandated the creation of a digitized system to track international students and visitors in the United States.

In the United States, Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance ( previously Patriot Day, until September 10, 2012 ) occurs on September 11 of each year, designated in memory of the 2, 977 killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

During the debate over the United States Constitution in 1788, she issued a pamphlet, written under the pseudonym, " A Columbian Patriot ," that opposed ratification of the document and advocated the inclusion of a Bill of Rights.

He also voted to make the Patriot Act permanent, opposed requiring Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants for wiretaps within the United States, and supported the president in restricting congressional oversight for CIA interrogations.

The Benjamin Franklin True Patriot Act () is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives intended to review the previously passed USA PATRIOT Act.

These tanker operations were supported by Patriot Missile battery elements of the United States Army's 5th Battalion 52d Air Defense Artillery, a large contingent of Security Forces from F. E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as well as small French and New Zealand military contingents of the Gulf war coalition.