forefighter
nounEtymology From Middle English forfighter, forfyȝtere, equivalent to fore- + fighter.
1
A protector or defender; champion, warrior.
- In this shared resistance Arminius, the forefighter of Germany's political independence, states Ich habe gesiegt – 'I have prevailed'.2006, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History, page 44: