American Loyalists
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Few Americans today know about those individuals who were loyal to Great Britain during our War for Independence and did not want to break away from the Mother Country. This talk will explore the Loyalist leaders, military commanders and others who continued to remain loyal to Britain and its policies in the American colonies. It will discuss the civil war that literally existed in all the initial thirteen colonies with a particular emphasis on warfare in the Southern colonies which pitted brother against brother, fathers against sons, and neighbors against each other. Ultimately, over 100,000 Loyalists left the American colonies to live in other parts of what was to become the British Empire, never to return to what had been their homeland.
Randolph Flood
Randy Flood is a historian and co-founder of The Real American Revolution, a nonprofit organization established to educate citizens about the American Revolution. Randy began his professional career by serving on the staff of the United States Senate and has taught courses about politics and the legislative processes at numerous colleges in the Washington DC area. Currently, he resides in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is working on the Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route Association to educate teachers, students and communities about the national historic trail where Lord Cornwallis and his British Army at Yorktown were entrapped..