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The United Empire Loyalists have suffered a strange fate at the hands of historians. It is not too much to say that for nearly a century their history was written by their enemies. English writers, for obvious reasons, took little pleasure in dwelling on the American Revolution, and most of the early accounts were therefore American in their origin. Any one who takes the trouble to read these early accounts will be struck by the amazing manner in which the Loyalists are treated. They are either ignored entirely or else they are painted in the blackest colours. So vile a crew the world ne'er saw before, And grant, ye pitying heavens, it may no more! If ghosts from hell infest our poisoned air, Those ghosts have entered these base bodies here. So sang a ballad-monger of the Revolution; and the opinion which he voiced persisted after him. According to some American historians of the first half of the nineteenth century, the Loyalists were a comparatively insignificant class of vicious criminals, and the people of the American colonies were all but unanimous in their armed opposition to the British government.
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- PublisherArdent Media,U.S.
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0839821786
- ISBN 13 9780839821786
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages334
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The United Empire Loyalists; A Chronicle of the Great Migration
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Reprint Edition. Pp: xi + vii + 148. Gilt titles: sp. Illust. w/ b/w portraits, prints, facsimile doc. & fold-in map (listed). Blue cloth bds. Ex-Lib. w/ usual markings. Frt. bd. is loose at title pg. Rear bd. beginning to separate. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Reprint of the 1922 edition from the Chronicles of Canada series. e Loyalists of the American Revolution (The U.E.L. in Canada) who supported king and country above all else, suffered dire consequences for being on the losing side. Their property was confiscated and they were forced to immigrate to parts of the Britsh Empire and begin new lives. Many went to Canada and this is the story of the second great migration to that country and the settlement of the Maritime provinces, Quebec and Ontario. Includes index, new introduction & preface. Seller Inventory # 004261
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