“Armed insurrection against the government is always treason.”
That’s what King George III said about George Washington and the American rebels of 1776.
It was true then as well. Washington had the advantage of being the victor in that particular contest, so we venerate his service. What do you think would have happened to him and the other Founding Fathers if the French and Hessians hadn’t supported his efforts and the revolution had been snuffed out by the British?
They’d all be nothing more than minor footnotes in British history.