Tories : fighting for the king in America's first civil war / Thomas B. Allen.
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.
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| Other title: | Fighting for the king in America's first civil war. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper,
©2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: "Little less than savage fury"
- Two flags over Plymouth
- Arming the Tories
- Flee or fight
- " To subdue the bad"
- The war for Boston
- Into the fourteenth colony
- The farewell fleet
- Beating the Southern drums
- "Broadswords and King George!"
- War in the loyal province
- Terror on the neutral ground
- "Indians must be employed"
- Treason along the Chesapeake
- Vengeance in the valleys
- Seeking Southern friends
- Despair before the dawn
- Bloody days of reckoning
- And they began the world anew.