But were they?
Do you have comments by King George calling them that?
Well since the term terrorist was not part of the lexicon of the day... no ..
But he did clearly call them traitors..
"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me." - George III
he also thoght we must be brought back into submission..
"Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit." -- George III
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I think it can be generally assumed that George II would have used the term if it were in the common lexicon
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Guy Fawkes was not accused of Terrorism but of Treason ... the same charges leveled by the Crown against the FF...
Are you trying to mix up the definitions? Or are you being purposefully obtuse?