Evangelicals are Protestants. "Protestant" is basically a blanket term for "not Catholic". We're pretty different across the board from Evangelicals, who are by and large turbo-fundamentalists. In 12 years of Catholic schooling, for instance, I was specifically and repeatedly taught that the world was not 10,000 years old, and that people did not ride dinosaurs.
Ah, I've learned something. I always thought "Evangelicals" were simply Christians (or indeed, others) who practised Evangelism. However, from what you say a particular sub-class of Christians have decided to take the name and make it their own. That makes sense, and matches what I've now double-checked.
Thank you. I'll read some more to avoid any further confusions.
This is my guess as to what Patrick meant.