loyalist

That was a moment when a loyalist and an aristocrat like Hutchinson might have learned how powerless are kings, nobles, and great men, when the low and humble range themselves against them.

After Jos went to Court, which we may be sure he did as a loyal subject of his Sovereign (showing himself in his full court suit at the Club, whither Dobbin came to fetch him in a very shabby old uniform) he who had always been a staunch Loyalist and admirer of George IV, became such a tremendous Tory and pillar of the State that he was for having Amelia to go to a Drawing-room, too.

Others of the more learned in songs also celebrated his praises in a sort of ballad, which I take to have been written by some Irish loyalist. I have forgotten all but the chorus, which ran, -

But the town knew worse troubles even than the floods,--troubles of the civil wars, when it was a continual fighting-place, where first Puritans thanked God for the blood of the Loyalists, and then Loyalists thanked God for the blood of the Puritans.

An interview in the mock heroic style, between the rebel warriors and the British commander-in-chief, was received with immense applause, which came loudest of all from the loyalists of the colony.

Calhoon and his work on Loyalist ideology before, during, and after the American Revolution.

Some of us know about the Loyalists through casual family references to "You come from Loyalist stock" and become curious enough about this reference to their distant past to join an organization that focuses on ancestral research such as the UELAC.

AN umbrella group involving loyalist paramilitaries is warning "all unionists and loyalists against voting for Alliance Party candidates".

Ruma Chopra has achieved a worthy addition in American Revolution scholarship and its sub-field of Loyalist studies.

Recently, Maya Jasanoff wrote that "at least sixty thousand loyalists with fifteen thousand slaves in tow" deserted the United States to dwell in lands still flying the Union Jack, adding that, "I will supply full documentation for my estimates in my forthcoming book on the loyalist diaspora." (6) When the book I appeared, the evidence was placed in an appendix entitled "Measuring the Exodus." (7) This estimate of Tory exiles was cited before the book's publication.

That may be a suitable role for our great northern neighbor in Canada, because the loyalist community formed much of the demographic basis for its Anglophone society and political culture.