the American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War

collecting some research into this topic.

The United Empire Loyalists
US Anabaptists in the Rev War
the BBC, was the war inevitable?
from the UEL website...

Over two hundred years ago the American Revolution shattered the British
Empire in North America. The conflict was rooted in British attempts to assert
economic control in her American colonies after her costly victory over the
French during the Seven Years War. When protest and riots met the British
attempts to impose taxes on the colonists, the British responded with political
and military force. Out of the struggle between between the Thirteen Colonies
and their mother country emerged two nations: the United States and what
would later become Canada.
Not all the inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies opposed Britain. The United
Empire Loyalists were those colonists who remained faithful to the Crown and
wished to continue living in the New World. Therefore, they left their homes to
settle eventually in what remained of British North America.
A Short History of the United Empire Loyalists
By
Ann Mackenzie M.A.