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During the American Revolution, a significant element of the population of the Thirteen Colonies remained loyal to the British crown.However, since then, aside from a few considerations in the 1780s, there has not been any serious movement supporting monarchy in the United States although a small number of prominent individuals have, from time to time, advocated the concept.
The King's Friends: The Composition and Motives of the American Loyalist Claimants (1966). Calhoon, Robert M. "Loyalism and neutrality" in Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole, eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (1991); reprinted in Greene, Jack P.; Pole, J. R. (2008). A Companion to the American Revolution.
American royalty may refer to American citizens who are members of royal families, through birth, ... United Empire Loyalist (American royalists) ...
William Augustus Bowles (1763–1805), also known as Estajoca, served with the Maryland Loyalist Battalion and was a Maryland-born English adventurer and organizer of Native American attempts to create their own state outside of Euro-American control. [7] [8] [9] Joseph Brant Thayendenegea (1743–1807), Mohawk war leader
Monarchism is the advocacy of the system of monarchy or monarchical rule. [1] A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government independent of any specific monarch, whereas one who supports a particular monarch is a royalist.
An American historian has called Lord Rawdon's outnumbered nine-hundred-man British force "a motley collection of Loyalists stiffened by a few regulars". [42] In fact, the British force consisted mostly of Northern Loyalist units--the King's American Regiment, the New York Volunteers and the Volunteers of Ireland-- and a South Carolina militia ...
Brown, Wallace. "American Loyalists in Britain" History Today (Oct 1969), Vol. 19 Issue 10, p672-678. online; covers 1776 to 1813. Maya Jasanoff. Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2012) excerpt and text search; Thomas B. Allen. Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War (2011) excerpt and text search
The group is also extended to include some early colonial American ministers and important lay-leaders. The majority of people in this list were mainstream Puritans, adhering strictly to the doctrine of Predestination.