As the Revolutionary War spread through every region ... Sir Guy Carleton, the acting commander of British forces, refused to abandon black Loyalists to their fate as slaves.
Next week marks 244 years since Wilmington was overtaken by British troops during the final months of the Revolutionary War ...
ISBN: 0786448156. Although the proportion is likely exaggerated, it has traditionally been believed that about a third of the people of the Thirteen Colonies during the Revolutionary War were “Tories” ...
1778 was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The war in the North stalled, and the British turned to the Loyalists, whom they assumed were the majority in the South. The British presence in ...
As the Revolutionary War spread through every region ... Sir Guy Carleton, the acting commander of British forces, refused to abandon black Loyalists to their fate as slaves.