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The Loyalists constituted the majority in some colonies, and a very large minority in the colonies as a whole. This is the history of those 100, 000 or more Americans who were driven into exile in Canada and elsewhere, drawn primarily from original sources

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The author looks at the formation of the Tory or Loyalist party in the American Revolution, its persecution, the banishment (or death) of over 100, 000 of these most conservative and respectable Americans, and the consequences of their banishment. In numbers, historically it is only comparable to the fates of the Moors of Spain and the Huguenots of France. This was the first book by the famous historian Claude Halstead van Tyne (1869-1930), wh...