Tories
Subtitle: fighting for the king in America's first civil war
By: Thomas B. Allen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780061241802
Subjects: Politics and government; American loyalists; American Loyalists; History
Other titles: Fighting for the king in America's first civil war
Description: A history of the Americans who chose to side with the British in the American Revolution that sheds important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed because they remained faithful to their mother country.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-444) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: "Little less than savage fury"; title: Two flags over Plymouth; title: Arming the Tories; title: Flee or fight; title: " To subdue the bad"; title: The war for Boston; title: Into the fourteenth colony; title: The farewell fleet; title: Beating the Southern drums; title: "Broadswords and King George!"; title: War in the loyal province; title: Terror on the neutral ground; title: "Indians must be employed"; title: Treason along the Chesapeake; title: Vengeance in the valleys; title: Seeking Southern friends; title: Despair before the dawn; title: Bloody days of reckoning; title: And they began the world anew.