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4 unusual facts about The Patriot


Morgan's Riflemen

Morgan's Riflemen were a key model for the fictional unit portrayed in the hit movie The Patriot, by Mel Gibson.

Sanjivan Lal

Did freelance journalism on cinema for Delhi based newspapers- Hindustan Times, The Patriot & The Indian Express.

Seema Mustafa

Seema Mustafa began her journalist career with The Pioneer in Lucknow, moved to The Patriot in 1979, and worked for several other Indian publications, including The Telegraph and Indian Express before joining the Asian Age in 1997 as its political editor and Delhi bureau chief.

The Patriot-News

Investigative reporter Pete Shellem, who died in 2009, received widespread recognition for his work in freeing the innocent from prison.


Battle of Waxhaws

In the 2000 movie The Patriot, Heath Ledger's character Gabriel Martin is wounded in a battle that takes place not long after the fall of Charleston.

Dara Coleman

He was made famous as the redcoat sergeant defying Mel Gibson in the 2000 movie The Patriot by shouting "This is the King's highway, and I'd advise you to make way! Ready arms! By twos!".

Kenny Casanova

Casanova has had extensive pro wrestling feuds with The Patriot, Primo Carnera III, Tito Santana, Jake Roberts, and Jeff Starr.

Leon Rippy

Rippy has worked with Roland Emmerich on seven movies including: Moon 44 (1990), Eye of the Storm (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Stargate (1994), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Patriot (2000), Eight Legged Freaks (2002) and also had a role in the 2004 film The Alamo.

Marquetta Goodwine

Goodwine served as a consultant for the 2000 Mel Gibson film The Patriot, which featured scenes set on the South Carolina coast of the Gullah/Geechee Nation.

Mika Boorem

She had supporting roles in the films Jack Frost (1998), The Patriot (2000), Along Came a Spider (2001), Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Blue Crush (2002) and Carolina (2003); and recurring roles in the television series Dawson's Creek and Touched by an Angel.

Pennsylvania Auto Show

The show is operated by Motor Trend and is sponsored annually by the Harrisburg Automotive Trade Association and The Patriot-News, the region's largest daily newspaper.

Philip Winchester

Winchester's acting career started with a small role in the 1998 film The Patriot, which was filmed in and around the towns of Bozeman and Ennis, Montana.

Phineas Horton

The Patriot freed Adam's captives, and the All-Winners Squad defeated Adam (at the cost of the second Captain America's life), leading to Adam's destruction in an automobile accident.

Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting

2012: Sara Ganim and the staff of The Patriot-News, "For courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Penn State sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky."


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Alexis Bruix

Alexis Vital Joseph, Baron of Bruix, (Brest, France, 1790 - Callao, Peru, 1825), Alejo Bruix in Spanish, was French military who joined to the patriot armies to fought in the Spanish American Wars of Independence.

American Patriot Supercruiser

The American Patriot Supercruiser, also called the Patriot II, is an American amateur-built aircraft, that was designed and produced by American Patriot Aircraft of Westfield, Wisconsin.

Battle of Maipú

Hence, on April 2, after leaving the Ochagavía camp to travel to the lower hills of Maipo, the Patriot army emerged organized in three infantry divisions with a total of 396 chiefs and approximately 5,000 lower-ranked officers and soldiers.

Columbia and Cowlitz Railway

From there, traffic is either switched to the Patriot Woods Railroad, formally known as the Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad, where it is transported to Weyerhaeuser's Green Mountain Sawmill at Toutle or it is switched to the BNSF/Union Pacific joint main line for movement to either Portland, Oregon, or Seattle.

Earl of Belvedere

The former Belvedere House, Dublin is now part of the renowned teaching establishment Belvedere College, school to the writers James Joyce and Austin Clarke, the stained glass artist Harry Clarke, the patriot and poet Joseph Plunkett who was executed in 1916, the poet Donagh MacDonagh, Volunteer Kevin Barry, and latter-day press and bean baron, Tony O'Reilly.

Grahame Wood

As well as The Patriot and Saving Private Ryan Grahame was in the Emmy Award nominated movie, 4 Minutes, Grahame portrayed celebrated runner, Sir Christopher Chataway.

Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden

He descended, almost directly, from Colonel John Hampden, the patriot; his forebear Sir John Trevor III (1624-72) of Plas Teg, son of Sir John Trevor II of Plas Teg and Trevalun, by Anne daughter of Sir Edmund Hampden of Wendover, had married John Hampden's daughter Ruth, who was his first cousin.

Holy Cross Crusaders football

In 2009, Holy Cross had one of its best teams since the founding of the Patriot League, led by the team's star Quarterback Dominic Randolph.

Howard Potter

On both sides he came from New England Puritan stock of English descent, and counted among his distinguished relatives Nathan Hale, the patriot schoolmaster, and other noted New Englanders, the Rev. Joel Benedict of Connecticut, his maternal great grandfather, and the brother-in-law of Mr. James Brown; Rt.

Hunters' Lodges

The leadership of the Patriot movement appear to have belonged to the small Equal Rights Party (known more popularly as the Locofocos).

John Pintard

He attended the College at New Jersey (which later became Princeton University), but left school to join the patriot forces when the British arrived at New York.

Lancaster County, South Carolina

Along there in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Abraham Buford fled from Tarleton and was overtaken a few miles south of the North Carolina state line where the Patriot forces were defeated in a controversial struggle known as the Battle of Waxhaws, also known as Bufords Massacre to locals.

Lungotevere Guglielmo Oberdan

The Lungotevere is dedicated to the patriot irredentist Guglielmo Oberdan from Trieste, who deserted the Austrian army and was hanged after his attempt to murder Franz Joseph I of Austria.

NS Savannah

In 1981, Savannah was obtained via bareboat charter for display at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Patriot District

The Patriot District experienced some changes in 2005 due to realignment and the opening of South County Secondary School in Lorton.

Paulton, Illinois

Today the interior streets of the community are named McCartney (for the singer), Simon (for both the singer and the senator), Saint (for the early Christian Apostle), Pope (for the many Catholic leaders so named), Revere (for the patriot) and Newman (for the actor).

Pedro Gual Escandón

Nevertheless Gual arrives to the island of Saint Thomas, returning to Cartagena in September, 1814, participating in the organization of the patriot army, and from January, 1815, as governor of the state.

Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen

In 1928, Lewis Stone played Pahlen in "The Patriot," starring Emil Jannings as Paul I. This film is considered lost, although fragments of it still exist in the UCLA Film Archives.

Richard Guyon

A. W. Kinglake, The Patriot and the Hero General Guyon (1856).

Saltoun Hall

Andrew Fletcher (1653–1716) the grandson of the first at Saltoun was known, during his life and in death, as 'The Patriot', for his unflinching opposition to the Acts of Union 1707.

Series E bond

A version of Series EE bonds, known as the Patriot Bond, is a sort of post-September 11 war bond, but has never enjoyed the broad subscription of the Series E war bond.

William Samuel Johnson

Johnson was first attracted to the Patriot cause by what he and his associates considered Parliament's unwarranted interference in the government of the colonies.