Loyalists

<p><span class="deck"> In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">BETWEEN KING AND COUNTRY</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Thousands of them sided with Great Britain, only to become the wandering children of the American Revolution</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">To the end of his life, America’s most notorious traitor believed that he was a primary hero of the Revolution.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When their side lost the Revolution, New Englanders who had backed Britain packed up, sailed north, and established the town of St. Andrews, New Brunswick. It still flourishes.</span></p>

<p>America’s first civil war took place during the Revolution, an ultra-violent, family-splitting, and often vindictive conflict between "patriots" and loyalists.</p>