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The Continentals are also outsiders, considering that they were the ones who moved over to the New World and set up camp, and are now trying to fight for their freedom, though they're encroaching on the Native American's lands.

I believe Connor is only supporting them because they want to remove the oppression placed upon them with the amount of taxation the Loyalists are imparting, in order to cover their losses with the French and Indian War.

If they weren't, I don't think Connor would have cared all that much. And besides, it hasn't been specifically said that the Loyalists were solely responsible for Connor's village being burned down. For all we know, it could have been the Continentals, since it only said "colonists" and as the developers stated, Paul Revere's midnight ride didn't go exactly as it was popularized, considering that both Loyalists and Continentals lived in Lexington and Concord