loyalists

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• Loyalists, United Empire —    Name applied to the inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to Great Britain, and rather than submit to the new republic, migrated to Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. No adequate provision having… …   The makers of Canada

• loyalists — loy·al·ist || lɔɪəlɪst n. person who is loyal to the present government …   English contemporary dictionary

• Maryland Loyalists Battalion — Active 1777 1783 Allegiance Britain Type Infantry Engagements American Revolutionary War …   Wikipedia

• League of Empire Loyalists — The League of Empire Loyalists was a pressure group (also called a ginger group in Britain and the British Commonwealth), established in 1954, campaigning against the dissolution of the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s.It was a small group… …   Wikipedia

• De Lancy's Brigade of Loyalists —    Dr Mentioned, 202 …   The makers of Canada

• Pennsylvania Loyalists —    Dr Commanded by Allen, 202 …   The makers of Canada

• Loyalist (American Revolution) — Britannia offers solace and a promise of compensation for her exiled American born Loyalists.(Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783. Engraving by H. Moses after Benjamin West.) Loyalists were American colonists who …   Wikipedia

• Black Loyalist — A Black Loyalist or African American Loyalist was a formerly enslaved African American [http://books.google.com/books?id=wrIVLxvh1F8C printsec=frontcover dq=americo+liberian+mulatto+sarah+blyden lr=#PPA179,M1] or Free Negro who escaped to the… …   Wikipedia

• 1969 Northern Ireland riots — Loyalists and RUC storming the nationalist Bogside district in Derry Location mainly Derry, Belfast, Newry, Armagh, Crossmaglen, Dungannon …   Wikipedia

• United Empire Loyalist — The name United Empire Loyalists is a honorific name which has been given after the fact to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat …   Wikipedia

• American Revolution — The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and collectively became the nation of the United… …   Wikipedia