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Excerpt from Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington The criticism will probably be made that due proportion has not been observed, that some records of great value receive only a general description, whereas other material of much less value has received a greater amount of space. The foregoing account of the conditions met with should be a sufiicient reply to this justifiable charge. In a few cases access ...

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First published in 1923, this book examines how the English and American people opposed or helped each other during and after the American Revolution.

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Excerpt from Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in WashingtonThe indexing of the records varies also with different file-rooms. In general the indexes make any particular letter or paper easily accessible, but do not aid in finding the papers of any one class or on any particular subject, and hence are of slight service in preparing a general description of the records. The older indexes are of little value for any pu...

Excerpt from Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in WashingtonThe criticism will probably be made that due proportion has not been observed, that some records of great value receive only a general description, whereas other material of much less value has received a greater amount of space. The foregoing account of the conditions met with should be a sufiicient reply to this justifiable charge. In a few cases access to...

Excerpt from The Loyalists in the American Revolution Schaack, John Murray and Hutchinson, and the pamphlets of Galloway and others have been valu able sources for their political arguments and senti ments. Mr. Flick's Loyalism in New York, gives a bibliographical note, which, supplemented by that in Winsor's Narrative and Critical His tory of America, in the article on the Loyalists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds o...

Excerpt from Sovereignty in the American Revolution: An Historical StudyArchives, fourth series, II: 1544. Not to wish success of the general cause was Toryism a stigma which neither individuals nor states cared to have fixed upon them. See Rush's view, Pennsylvania Magazine, XXVII. 135.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

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The Loyalists constituted the majority in some colonies, and a very large minority in the colonies as a whole. This is the history of those 100, 000 or more Americans who were driven into exile in Canada and elsewhere, drawn primarily from original sources

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The author looks at the formation of the Tory or Loyalist party in the American Revolution, its persecution, the banishment (or death) of over 100, 000 of these most conservative and respectable Americans, and the consequences of their banishment. In numbers, historically it is only comparable to the fates of the Moors of Spain and the Huguenots of France. This was the first book by the famous historian Claude Halstead van Tyne (1869-1930), wh...