supported colonist

[keldoll532]

British who supported the colonist against King were called?

[waimarie]

I take it you refer to king George III and the American War of Independence? If so, I believe they were referred to as 'loyalists' (by the British, that is) although I'm sure the 'colonists' would have given them another title.

This is an old classic, isn't it? I imagine that correctly speaking the colonists were rebelling against the crown and therefore insurgents.

But, of course, history is written by the winners and therefore they are Patriots!!

[jno]

no... the loyalists supported the British, didn't they?

[Stu in USA]

Traitors!!!!!!

[mike b]

the question seems to be ambiguous (as was the war) - since the rebellious colonists were supposedly British anyway, I suppose we are talking about those in the UK who sympathized with them - Pitt the Elder for one, not to mention Tom Paine (i said don't mention tom paine! - I think he was in exile by then anyway) Colonists who remained loyal to the Crown were known as Tories, but I can't think of a term for those at home who supported the colonists/rebels/whatever...

[jno]

those would probably be Whigs, the party that supported curbs on royal power. The ones in the USA (as it then wasn't) who were 'patriots' - revolutionaries - were often called Whigs too.