The New Nation

Portrait by Artist to Come


QUICK FACTS

           

Perspectives

  • Shay’s Rebellion
  • Constitutional Convention
  • Federalists and Anti-Federalists

Loyalism was a siren call for the British. They were constantly bending their strategy to conform to the chimera of Loyalist support that was assumed to be there but somehow never materialized. Howe’s Philadelphia campaign and Burgoyne’s invasion from Canada, as well as the British strategy in the South, were based on the assumption that large numbers of Loyalists would rise in support, if only sufficiently encouraged and protected ...

Michael Stephenson
Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought (2007)