Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War - Hardcover

Allen, Thomas B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061241806 ISBN 13: 9780061241802

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

Traces the lives and experiences of Tories--also known as Loyalists, the American colonists who sided with the British during the Revolutionary period--detailing their exploits on the battlefield and their mass migration to Canada after the war. By the author of Remember Valley Forge. 15,000 first printing.

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Tories Allen delivers a sweeping, dramatic history of the Americans who chose to side with the British in the American Revolution and sheds important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed because they remained faithful to their mother country. Full description

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A Sweeping, Dramatic History of the Americans Who Chose to Side with the British in the Revolution

The American Revolution was not simply a battle between independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, the village green, and even in church.

In this outstanding and vital history, Allen tells the complete story of these other Americans, tracing their lives and experiences throughout the revolutionary period. New York City and Philadelphia were Tory strongholds through much of the war, and at times in the Carolinas and Georgia there were more trained and armed Tories than Redcoats. The Revolution also produced one of the greatest—and least known—migrations in Western history. More than 80,000 Tories left America, most of them relocating to Canada.

John Adams once said that he feared there would never be a good history of the American Revolution because so many documents had left the country with the Tories. Based on documents in archives from Nova Scotia to London, Tories adds a fresh perspective to our knowledge of the Revolution and sheds an important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed when they remained faithful to their mother country.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061241806
• ISBN 13: 9780061241802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 468