Review for The American Loyalists: Or Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown in the War of the Revolution; Alphabetically Arranged; With a Preliminary Historical Essay (Classic Reprint) : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
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Of the reasons which influenced, of the hopes and fears which agitated, and of the miseries and rewards which awaited the Loyalists - or, as they were called in the politics of the time, the Tories - of the American Revolution, but little is known. The most intelligent, the best informed among us, confess the deficiency of their knowledge. The reason is obvious. Men who, like the Loyalists, separate themselves from their friends and kindred, who are driven from their homes, who surrender the hopes and expectations of life, and who become outlaws, wanderers, and exiles, - such men, leave few memorials behind them. Their papers arc scattered and lost, and their very names pass from human recollection.
Hence, the most thorough and pains-taking inquirers into their history, hove hardly been r
