See also: Expulsion of the Loyalists, and American Immigration to Canada,
Wikipedia.
But you have to treat everything in Wikipedia with a Whig history smell test, and these articles are no exception.
Sunday, April 1, 2018
RE COLONIAL ROYALISTS DRIVEN OUT RE DK POST THE VERDICT
Professor Kaiser thinks that, although 200,000 or so Tories (royalists) were driven out, quite a few returned:
"The crisis of 1774-1794 (latter date approximate) overthrew British rule, drove perhaps 200,000 Tories out of the new nation (although quite a few eventually returned)..." DK
Below is a 2016 post of mine.
My information below regarding royalists driven out, never to return, and the consequences, was based on passages in R R Palmer's wonderful work, in 2 volumes, The Age of the Democratic Revolution. Volume I, as I recall.
As Palmer pointed out, these exiles became the English speaking population of Canada. They did not return to the United States..
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