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Loyalist (American Revolution) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Butler's Rangers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Butler's Rangers (1777–1784) was a British provincial regiment composed of Loyalists (or "Tories") in the American Revolutionary War, raised by Loyalist John Butler. Most members of the regiment were...
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A British agent at the centre of alleged security force collusion with loyalist paramilitary killers in Northern Ireland has died. ... The former British soldier from the Shankill Road is said to have provided the vital intelligence that guided killers to their targets.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Joseph Galloway (British loyalist), c. 1731West River, Maryland [U.S.]August 29, 1803Watford, Hertfordshire, Englanddistinguished American colonial attorney and legislator who remained loyal to Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution (1775–83). His effort in 1774 to ...
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Immediately following the American Revolution, Nova Scotia faced the initial brunt of Loyalist immigration. While the colony only had about 20,000 settlers entering 1783, ... During the 1870s, there was also a significant Loyalist immigration of some 3,000 Blacks into British North America. Most went to Nova Scotia.
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The HAC was the oldest regiment in the British Army, having been founded four hundred years before in 1540. I joined A Battery, G Subsection ... a horse battery when I was with them." ... While there, I often flew over Lake Erie near the land of my Loyalist ancestor, Col. Samuel Ryerse."
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