no because in the 1700's around the dlecaration of independence the colonists wanted independence but the patriots didn't so they had war and if you check the defenitions of the two words seperately...
they lived in tpies with the natives and killed them in there sleep
patriots are American, but loyalists are English because they thought they were loyal to king george the third in England.
Volunteers, troops, cops, firefighters, nurses, doctors people like that
loyalist are people who stuck with king george 3 and the British Goverment during when the British were taxing the colonies