With the exception of Native Americans, all the Americans of 1776 were either immigrants or descended from immigrants…The largest group of immigrant Americans was from England…Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often referred to as Tories, Royalists or King’s Men at the time…
They were opposed by the Patriots, who supported the revolution, and called them “persons inimical to the liberties of America.”Below is The 1761 muster roll of Capt. Barnaby Byrn’s company of New York provincial troops:—who were mostly born in Europe, and many of whom were so called black…These Troop pages also show that the American Revolutionary War was fought and Won, by a MAJORITY of so called Black soldiers…
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