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The Loyalists thought that the Patriots were panicking, as they had at Camden. The Loyalists began to advance, and Tarleton ordered one of the impetuous charges for which the British Legion was famous. The Loyalists ran into massed Patriot fire, and then were taken on their flank by an expertly timed Patriot cavalry charge.
A Bibliography of Loyalist Source Material in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Westport, CT, 1982. The Particular Case of the Georgia Loyalists: in Addition to the General Case and Claim of the American Loyalists, which was Lately Published by Order of Their Agents. February 1783. n.p., 1783. 16 pp. Google Books pdf
Butler's Rangers (1777–1784) was a Loyalist provincial military unit of the American Revolutionary War, raised by American loyalist John Butler.Most members of the regiment were Loyalists from upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania.
David Fanning (c. 1755 – March 14, 1825) was a Loyalist leader in the American Revolutionary War in North and South Carolina. Fanning participated in approximately 36 minor engagements and skirmishes, and in 1781, captured the Governor of North Carolina, Thomas Burke, from the temporary capital at Hillsborough.
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fight for Emancipation in the War for Independence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2012. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2012. Guthrie, James M. Camp-fires of the Afro-American; Or, The Colored Man as a Patriot, Soldier, Sailor, and Hero, in the Cause of Free America , 1899
The Doan Gang terrorized Bucks County patriots to aid British troops. Another example of a misconception, Flack says, is the confusion surrounding who the Doan Gang were.
The Loyalist soldiers hanged Huddy in revenge for similar killings of Loyalists, particularly Phillip White. Huddy was a member of the Association of Retaliation, a vigilante body with a history of attacking and killing Loyalists and neutrals in New Jersey. [23] At the time, some alleged that Franklin had sanctioned the killing of Huddy.
The Loyalists are depicted as noble and multiracial, with a group of white lawmakers in full dress pledging themselves to the Crown beneath Britannia; Her gesture is instead answered by a central figure of an Indigenous warrior standing alongside a woman and a family of Black Loyalists. [4]