 Only two years later , the French Revolution began , which embraced many of the political ideas that the Patriots had espoused in their own revolt . The Patriots enthusiastically supported the Revolution , and when the French revolutionary armies started to spread that revolution , the Patriots joined in , hoping to liberate their own country from its authoritarian yoke . The Stadtholder joined the ill @-@ fated First Coalition of countries in their attempt to subdue the suddenly anti @-@ Austrian French First Republic . 
