Founded in 1829, this remarkable Georgia church and cemetery hold some of the most unlikely stories in Southern history. Here ...

“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 ...

Those who built the United States would undoubtedly have been viewed as terrorists by pro-British loyalists of their day ...

Captain Reid proved as audacious as Colonel Graham was complacent. Accompanied by only 15 Loyalist militiamen, Reid strode to ...

GAFFNEY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Cherokee Historical & Preservation Society, Inc. said it hosted the 10th annual Liberation Day at Fort Thicketty to commemorate 1780 Patriot victory over British ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early morning of Feb. 27, 1776, muskets and cannon fire rang out, blotting out the battle cries of British Loyalist ...

Later that evening, these Irish loyalists celebrated St. Patrick’s Day “with their accustomed Hilarity,” noted a local journalist. Lord Rawdon’s Volunteers of Ireland regiment led the way with a ...

Virginia eventually seized and sold off an estimated 53,000 acres, plus personal property, which in some cases included enslaved Africans.

Detailed ledgers, business receipts and church records from Black Loyalists in the 1780s and onward are more than just rich ...

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 ...