Loyalis (Revolusi Amerika)

Loyalis adalah para kolonis Amerika yang masih setia kepada Kerajaan Britania Raya (dan raja Britania) selama Perang Revolusi Amerika. Mereka sering disebut Tories, Royalists, atau King's Men oleh Patriot, yaitu orang-orang yang mendukung revolusi. Jika Loyalis dikalahkan, sekitar 20% dari mereka mengungsi atau didorong mundur keluar dari AS agar mendirikan permukiman di wilayah Imperium Britania, di Britania Raya atau Amerika Utara Britania, khususnya East Ontario dan New Brunswick, tempat mereka disebut United Empire Loyalists; sejumlah lainnya ke Hindia Barat Britania, terutama Kepulauan Bahama. Loyalis Hitam membentuk masyarakat Loyalis tetapi ditebus sesuai prosedur klaim Britania.

Sejarawan memperkirakan bahwa antara 15 dan 20 persen penduduk berkulit putih di koloni-koloni tersebut adalah Loyalis.

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Pranala luar 
 "Who were the Loyalists" by Ann Mackenzie (5-page, in pdf format)
 "Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People"
 "Remembering Black Loyalists, Black Communities in Nova Scotia" 
 American Loyalists
 Maryland 
 South Carolina
 Virginia 
 The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies
 Loyalist Page - Cyndi's List
 Why Were Some of Our Ancestors Tories?
 James Chalmers and "Plain Truth" (A Loyalist Answers Thomas Paine)
 Haldimand Collection The main source for historians in the study of the settlement of the American Loyalists in Canada. More than 20 thousand letters and documents, now fully indexed, and free on the Web.
 Benjamin Franklin to Baron Francis Maseres, June 26, 1785  (Opinion of Benjamin Franklin on persons who called themselves "Loyalists", whom he judged better called "Royalists")
 The Loyalist Link: The Forest and The Sea - Port Roseway Loyalists 
 Bibliography of the Loyalist Participation in the American Revolution  compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History

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