Thursday, January 1, 2015

1 January 1782 A.D. Loyalists Leave U.S. for Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, Canada; American Hagiographers Laud the Rebellion & Lawlessness


1 January 1782 A.D.  Loyalists Leave U.S. for Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, Canada;  American Hagiographers Laud the Rebellion & Lawlessness

Editors. This Day in U.S. Military History. N.d. http://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/january-1/.  Accessed 31 Dec 2014.

1782-The supporters of the British cause, the Loyalists, begin to leave the US, mainly for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Among the first to leave are those from the New England states and New York. If they stay, the Loyalists fear legal charges of treason or collaboration, and property confiscation.

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