List of maps -- Cast of characters -- Introduction: Spirit of 1783 -- Part I: Refugees. Civil war ; An unsettling peace ; A new world disorder -- Part II: Settlers. The heart of empire ; A world in ...
When the American Revolution ended in 1783, not everyone was celebrating independence. Thousands of colonists who had remained loyal to the British Crown suddenly found themselves on the losing side, ...
On the eve of the American Revolution, Matthias Aspden made a decision that would change the trajectory of his life. A wealthy merchant from Philadelphia, Aspden carefully prepared to leave his home ...
“My father told me that his maternal grandmother’s side of the family descended from a British Loyalist family who owned a plantation in Virginia. When the American Revolution started, this family ...
As the war enters its sixth year, the Continental Army is starting to show signs of fraying. After British victories in the Siege of Charleston and the Battle of Waxhaws, British soldiers under ...