Excerpt from The Flight of American Loyalists to the British IslesAs we have already seen, the evacuation of Boston did not result in a direct removal of many refugees to Great Britain. Indeed, its effect was chie¿y indirect in this particular. On the 3oth of March and Ist of April, 1776, Halifax received the con course of more than a thousand loyalists from Boston and four or five times as many soldiers in addition.20 The disembarking multitude sadly overtaxed the capacity of the Nova Scotian cap ital, which was a primitive town with a population of several thousand only.21 Under such conditions scores and even hun dreds of the loyalists, who only a few weeks before had expected to settle permanently in the country to which they'were going, now hastened to re-embark for England, whither not a few of their friends and fellow-sufferers had preceded them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.