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Author Allen, Thomas B.

Title Tories : fighting for the king in America's first civil war / Thomas B. Allen.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, [2010]
©2010

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.314 ALLEN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  973.3 ALLEN    Missing
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.3 ALL    DUE 05-16-24
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  973.314 ALL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973.3 ALL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  973.314 ALLEN    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  973.314 ALL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  973.314 ALLEN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  973.3 AL    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxiii, 468 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-444) and index.
Contents Preface: "Little less than savage fury" -- Two flags over Plymouth -- Arming the Tories -- Flee or fight -- "To subdue the bad" -- The war for Boston -- Into the fourteenth colony -- The farewell fleet -- Beating the southern drums -- "Broadswords and King George!" -- War in the loyal province -- Terror on the neutral gound -- "Indians must be employed" -- Treason along the Chesapeake -- Vengeance in the valleys -- Seeking southern friends -- Despair before the dawn -- Bloody days of reckoning -- And they began the world anew.
Summary A history of the Americans who chose to side with the British in the American Revolution that sheds important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed because they remained faithful to their mother country.
Subject American loyalists.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
ISBN 9780061241802
0061241806
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