Showing posts with label American Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Revolution. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 February 2019

The Loyalist Regiments of the American Revolutionary War 1775-1783

The King's Royal Regiment of New York, also known as Royal Greens, were one of the first Loyalist regiments, raised on June 19, 1776, in British Canada
This dissertation, by Stuart Salmon, "... is about the Loyalist Regiments of the American Revolution, 1775-1783. These were the formal regiments formed by the British, consisting of Americans who stayed Loyal to the British crown during the American Revolutionary War. They fought in most of the main campaigns of this war and in 1783 left with the British Army for Canada, where many of them settled. The Loyalist regiments have been neglected by academic historians with only one major work on them as a group. The intention of this dissertation is to give them their proper place in the historiography of the American Revolutionary War and of eighteenth century military history."

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

A few bloody noses...

"We meant well to the Americans-just to punish them with a few bloody noses, and then to make laws for the happiness of both countries," King George III.