History Brief: Patriots and Loyalists

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Published 2015-09-16
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  • @ehs444
    who else in quarantine rn
  • @Andrew-gn9qp
    King George III had tyrannical control over the Thirteen Colonies due to being a direct Crown colony, but he helped the Loyalists and created good policies for Canada. King George III protected British culture and French culture in Canada. King George III has a good reputation in Canada.
  • @MarkL-we8uk
    Some Loyalists were those who felt underappreciated and undervalued by the Patriots such as Robert Rogers or William Stark
  • @johnfox901
    The British took over New France ( Canada) in 1759 and were happy to welcome English speaking loyalists into its territory. Prior to the arrival of the loyalists, Canada remained a mostly French speaking Catholic colony. The British had to promise to protect their language and religion to avoid rebellion. Tens of thousands of loyalists were granted lands in Atlantic Canada ( their french population, the Acadians was largely deported a generation before) and in the western parts of Canada along the St. Lawrence and great lakes ( now Ontario). They transformed Canada into a majority English speaking country by the early 1800s.
  • @erikavazquez1180
    Students: Teachers: Hippity Hoppity this video is now my property
  • @stephenmcdonald664
    The person who produced this clip must be an American.  Using the term 'Patriots' rather than 'Rebels'.After the United Empire Loyalists came to Canada, they subsequently helped beat the U.S. in the War of 1812-14.  The first defeat of the U.S., not to be repeated until Vietnam.
  • @Zincink
    Joel my relative who was a Quaker Loyalist & peaceful person who didn't want to be involved in conflict or violence had no choice but to suffer. It is weird to think that I had relatives on each side...now we're here! You can find a lot of info via ancestry if you know your family line. You'd be surprised about what you find.
  • @joanr3189
    The 1776 Declaration of Dependence Document Signed by Loyalists Archived. survives. But few are aware. It is an important piece of history.
  • @qiwenlin8291
    If I would choose which side is bad I would choose colonists/patriots because King George the third was being nice to the colonists, except for the taxes but King George also imported a new law called Tea Act which lowered the price of tea and King George thought the colonists would be happy but the colonists saw the tea act as a interference(because there was other acts like stamp act,sugar act, and etc)so as a respond from the colonists they decided to go to the Boston harbor and went to the ship and dumped 342 crates full of tea, and also the Colonists/patriots was abusing the British soldiers by beating the British soldiers up and the British soldiers just wanted to be let alone to do their job. P.S. If your on the colonists’ side then think about the loyalists’ perspectives and think about what/why they put taxes and stuff like that.
  • @LesHaskell
    On March 25, 1815 my 3rd-great-grandparents, Caleb Haskell and Fanny Matilda Betts got married in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Caleb was the son of Caleb Haskell, Patriot soldier in the Newburyport, Massachusetts militia (Little's Regiment) who had been at Bunker's Hill and went on Arnold's Expedition to Quebec (he wrote a diary which has been published and is sometimes cited in books on the Revolution). Fanny was the daughter of Dr. Azor Betts, a Loyalist in New York who served with the King's Rangers, the Queen's Rangers, and DeLancey's Cowboys before moving with his wife to New Brunswick after the war in 1783 (the doctor was arrested for speaking out against the Provincial and Continental Congresses in 1775, and again for inoculating four Continental Army officers for smallpox at their insistent request {Lt Colonel Moulton, Capt. Parks, Doctor Hart and Lieut. Brown}. General George Washington had read about the arrest just before he issued General Orders May 26 1776) . A few years after the marriage Caleb and Fanny moved to Newburyport, Caleb's home town.
  • @michaelbaltezore747
    The gentleman is forgetting that the Civil War like atmosphere came before the Battle of Lexington and Concord which is why the British troops were there in the first place. The British troops were assisting with the confiscation of patriot Arms, so the patriots fought back. A key detail that's not even taught in our schools anymore.