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unusual facts about Loyalists



Abraham Ogden

During the Revolutionary War, Ogden and his brother Samuel sided with the Patriots, while their father David and brothers Isaac, Nicholas and Peter sided with the Loyalists.

Andersonstown

The Provisionals accused the army and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland WIlliam Whitelaw of going back on earlier negotiations and favouring the loyalists.

Anthony McIntyre

McIntyre was involved with the Boston College oral history project on the Irish troubles, conducting interviews with former IRA members such as Brendan Hughes and Dolours Price and loyalists such as David Ervine.

Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia

The community of Beaver Bank dates back to 1776 when Loyalists from Boston John Henry Barnstead (1764–1861) and his mother, Mary Brown Parcel Barnstead, arrived there.

Canterbury, New Brunswick

Early settlers of the area were Loyalists ( possibly disbanded soldiers of the King's American Regiment and their families ) displaced by the end of the American Revolution (1780s) later

Château d'Ussé

In 1802 Ussé was purchased by the duc de Duras; as early as March 1813, low-key meetings were held at Ussé among a group of Bourbon loyalists, who met to sound out the possibilities of a Bourbon Restoration: such men as Trémouille, duc de Fitzjames, the prince de Polignac, Ferrand, Montmorency and the duc de Rochefoucault attended.

Conquest of the Western Turks

Kusrau was able to bring the western tribes temporarily under his rule, but was defeated in 690 during an invasion by the Second Turkic Khaganate, and he too was forced to escape the region with his loyalists.

Dan O'Boyle

Daniel "Dan" O'Boyle (died November 1933) was a Catholic Irish publican murdered by Protestant loyalists in 1933.

Eihei-ji

Five generations of the Asakura daimyo clan lived there until 1573, when the town was razed by Oda Nobunaga loyalists.

Enomoto Takeaki

Enomoto became one of the few former Tokugawa loyalists who made the transition to the new ruling elite, as politics at the time was dominated by men from Chōshū and Satsuma, who had a strong bias against outsiders in general, and former Tokugawa retainers in particular.

Francis Salvador

On July 31, Major Andrew Williamson captured two white loyalists, who led his 330 men into an ambush prepared by their fellow Tories and Seneca Indians on the Keowee River.

Galvez, Louisiana

In 1778, British refugees and American Loyalists fled the American settlement of Canewood and settled in Spanish territory with the permission of Count Bernardo de Gálvez, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana and viceroy of New Spain (Mexico).

Jack McKee

He was critical of the PSNI's handling of the disorder surrounding the removal of the Union Jack at Belfast City Hall near the sectarian interface at Short Strand, where he claimed republicans attacked loyalists protesters without police intervention.

Laurel Hill, Florida

There had been settlements by English-speaking loyalists in Florida during the American Revolution.

League of American Writers

Some 418 returned the survey forms, with 410 supporting the Loyalists to the Spanish Republic, 7 professing neutrality, and only one — Gertrude Atherton — supporting General Francisco Franco and his nationalist forces.

Loyalism

This migration also included Native American loyalists such as Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, the "Black Loyalists" – former slaves who had joined the British cause in exchange for their freedom, and Anabaptist loyalists (Mennonites).

Lyman E. Johnson

The schismatic strife followed them, but in Far West, the loyalists were able to keep control by excommunicating the leadership of the Missouri church—David Whitmer, John Whitmer, W. W. Phelps along with Oliver Cowdery, Johnson, and others.

Moores Creek National Battlefield

Loyalists, mostly Scottish Highlanders, many of whom did not have muskets and were wielding broadswords, expected to find only a small Patriot force on February 27, 1776.

Panamanian general election, 1984

Nevertheless, in early September, President de la Espriella purged his cabinet of Paredes loyalists, and Noriega declared that he would not publicly support any candidate for president.

Paxton Boys

Mohawk chief Joseph Brant led a group of Loyalists, Mohawk and other warriors against rebel colonial settlers in the area.

Royalist

Loyalists during the American Revolution were American colonists opposed to secession from the British Empire and who remained loyal to the British Crown.

Safehold

During the fighting Loyalists manage to capture Charisian breech-loading guns, allowing them to duplicate these weapons.

Sarajevo in Austria-Hungary

At daybreak, Hafiz made one last attempt at restoring his authority by leading his loyalists to the Bijela Tabija fortress high above the city but got nowhere as more of his troops deserted.

Siege of Cuautla

A few days later, 7,000 reinforcement loyalists troops arrived under the command of Ciriaco del Llano and José Gabriel de Armijo from Asturias, Guanajuato, Lovera, San Luis Potosí, Zamora and Tulancingo.

Siege of Ninety-Six

The British outpost at Ninety Six was garrisoned by 550 experienced Loyalists formed into Provincial regiments (regular army troops that had been recruited from Loyalists in New York, New Jersey, and South Carolina) under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Cruger.

The Master of Ballantrae

When Bonnie Prince Charlie raises the banner of the Stuarts, the Durie family—the Laird of Durrisdeer, his older son James Durie (the Master of Ballantrae) and his younger son Henry Durie—decide on a common strategy: one son will join the uprising while the other will join the loyalists.

Upper Rawdon, Nova Scotia

He rescued the Rawdon Loyalists from being killed by American Patriots in the Siege of Ninety-Six, South Carolina during the American Revolution.

One of the most prominent Loyalists to survive the Siege of Ninety-Six to settle Rawdon was Captain John Bond.

William Blowers Bliss

He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Jonathan Bliss and Mary Worthington, Massachusetts loyalists, and was educated at King's Collegiate School and King's College.

William Washington

At Rugeley’s Mill, Washington with 60 troops bluffed 112 Loyalists into surrendering a strongly fortified homestead without firing a shot by use of a "Quaker Gun", mounting a felled tree trunk on wagon axles to resemble a cannon.


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