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29. In primary literature, you will generally find

Thu Feb 14, 2013, 05:34 PM

Feb 2013

Loyalists - not royalists (and the Wiki article doesn't give a citation, unless the information is in the text of the first footnote, so I'm not convinced . . .)

That said, I won't quibble anymore - my post inaccurately gave precedence to that term as opposed to the my "point" (such as it was) that there were quite a few colonists who didn't take up the banner of independence. My error in how I chose to write it.

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Loyalists, bvar. enlightenment Feb 2013 #27

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