Amidst an increasingly tense and poisonous atmosphere on the Shankill Adair decided to host a " Loyalist Day of Culture " on the Shankill on Saturday 19 August 2000, which saw around a dozen new murals officially unveiled in his lower Shankill stronghold.

In recent times, the term is often used to refer to militants including several loyalist paramilitary groups, such as the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ), Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) and Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ).

Modern-day descendants of those original refugees often employ the term " United Empire Loyalist ", sometimes using " U. E.

Carter Braxton was active in the Virginia legislature, " a moderate politician during the Revolution — often viewed as sympathetic to the British ( but not a Loyalist ).

By conventional historical accounts, Tarleton's unhorsing gave some of the Loyalist cavalry the impression that the rebels had shot at their commander while asking for mercy, and they began what became a slaughter.

Oliver Wiswell focuses on a Loyalist officer during the American Revolution and covers the entire war, from famous events such as the Siege of Boston, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the New York and New Jersey campaign through the Battle of Fort Washington, and the Franco-American alliance, to less-remembered events such as the Convention Army, the exodus to Kentucky County, the Siege of Ninety-Six, and the resettlement of the United Empire Loyalists, as well as providing a later look at both a dissolute Rogers and a frustrated Arnold among the British.

The most significant impact from this war was the settling of large numbers of Loyalist refugees in the region, especially in Shelburne and Parrtown ( Saint John ).

Fanny came from a notably Loyalist background ( including Crean Brush, notorious for acts during the Siege of Boston, from whom she inherited land in Vermont ), but they were both smitten, and the marriage was a happy one.

In 1777, Simcoe sought to form a Loyalist regiment of free blacks from Boston, but instead was offered the command of the Queen's Rangers, a well-trained light infantry unit comprising 11 companies of 30 men, 1 grenadier and 1 hussar, and the rest light infantry.

During and after the American Revolutionary War, from 1776 to 1783, the colony's efforts to attract exiled Loyalist refugees from the rebellious American colonies met with some success.

Loyalist newspaper cartoon from Boston in 1775 ridicules " Yankie Doodles " militia who have encircled the city

Most of the current inhabitants are descended from the slaves brought to work on the Loyalist plantations, or from liberated Africans set free by the British navy after the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807.

The Province of Upper Canada ( French: province du Haut-Canada ) was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution.

During the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress, and some state governments ( on their own initiative ), issued privateering licenses, authorizing " legal piracy ", to merchant captains in an effort to take prizes from the British Navy and Tory ( Loyalist ) privateers.

The 1973 Sunningdale Agreement, which proposed a power-sharing deal, was strongly repudiated by many Unionists and the Ulster Unionist Party who withdrew its MPs at Westminster from the Conservative whip, The proposal was finally brought down by the Loyalist Ulster Workers ' Council strike in 1974.

He was expelled from the UVF and threatened with execution if he did not leave Northern Ireland, but he ignored the threats and defiantly formed the breakaway Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ).

Two skirmishes were fought by Loyalist and Continental forces over Wright's Fort, and both times American troops failed to rout the Loyalists from the area.

Following the killing of Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ) leader Billy Wright inside the Maze prison by the INLA the previous December, the UDA and UFF prisoners had voted two to one to withdraw from the peace process.

For many decades a popular historic spot in Wilkesboro was the " Tory Oak ", a large oak tree from which Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a well-known Wilkes County patriot during the American Revolutionary War, hung Loyalist militia leaders who supported the British King and opposed American independence from Britain.

Shelburne County was founded in 1784 shortly following the influx of Loyalist settlers evacuated from the newly independent United States of America.

Claudius Smith, an outlaw identified with the Loyalist cause, was referred to as the " Cow-boy of the Ramapos " due to his penchant for stealing oxen, cattle and horses from colonists and giving them to the British.

A protest against a planned Loyalist march degenerated into vandalism and looting, with building materials from the works in progress being used as weapons and for smashing windows and fixtures.

Loyalist to take up land here on the site of Brockville was William Buell Sr. ( 1751 – 1832 ), an ensign disbanded from the King's Rangers, from the state of New York.

Loyalist associations were created in order to counter a perceived threat from radical societies.

A version of the Union Flag as used from 1707 to 1801, which can still be seen as a common Loyalist symbol in certain parts of Canada.

The British remained in control of the Delaware River for much of the rest of the war, disrupting commerce and providing encouragement to an active Loyalist portion of the population, particularly in Sussex County.

However, some have accused him of colluding with the Shawnees and arranging the war to deplete the Virginia militia and help safeguard the Loyalist cause, should there be a colonial rebellion.

* Charles Lynch ( 1736 – 1796 ), a Virginia planter and American Revolutionary who headed a county court in Virginia which incarcerated Loyalist supporters of the British for up to one year during the war, although lacking proper jurisdiction, on the plea of wartime necessity.

As the war ended, Washington watched proudly as the final British army quietly sailed out of New York City in November 1783, taking the Loyalist leadership with them.

Loyalist refugees, mainly of English descent, later called United Empire Loyalists, began leaving at the end of the war whenever transport was available, with considerable loss of property and transfer of wealth.

Behind them much of the territory they abandoned dissolved into a chaotic guerrilla war, as the bands of Loyalist one by one were overwhelmed by the patriots.

He had about 300 regulars, supported by 650 Canadian and Loyalist militia, and they were joined by 1, 000 Indians led by John Butler and the Iroquois war chiefs Joseph Brant, Sayenqueraghta and Cornplanter.

Butler returned to service as a Loyalist when the American Revolution turned to war in 1775.

All civilian advisers had recommended against immediate intervention hoping that the Loyalist side could bring an end to the civil war.

Under political pressure to deliver victory, British leaders turned to launching their " southern strategy " for winning the war, that built on the idea that there was strong Loyalist sentiment supporting the southern colonies.

The British advance was marked by more than the usual destruction of war ; the Loyalists rose to arms ; the Patriot population regrouped around some of its militia commanders to harass the British and their Loyalist allies.

" Tarleton's quarter ," meaning no quarter would be offered to British and Loyalist soldiers, became a rallying cry for American Patriots for the rest of the war especially at the massacre by American troops on loyalist forces at the Battle of Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780, where all the participants save for one British officer were colonists.

A Loyalist sympathizer, he operated from New York City after the war.

His father was William Caldwell, a Scots-Irish immigrant who came to North America in 1773 and served as a Loyalist soldier in the war.

The IUA helped form the Southern Irish Loyalist Relief Association to assist war refugees and claim compensation for damage to property.

As the war dragged on, the ministry also sought to recruit Loyalist soldiers.

Seeking to prevent the outbreak of war and to keep the peace between the American Patriot ( Whig ) majority and the Loyalist ( Tory ) minority, he believed that the best way to accomplish this was by secretly removing military stores from storehouses and arsenals in New England.

Raised by exiled Loyalist leader Sir John Johnson from American refugees fleeing rebel persecution, the regiment served with distinction throughout the war, launching raids and relief missions into the Mohawk Valley of New York.

At the end of the war in 1783 he became a United Empire Loyalist, settling in Nova Scotia.

Asgill was issued him a pass back to British lines and returned to Britain, while Lippincott emigrated after the war to Canada, where he received 3, 000 acres ( 12 km² ) as a reward for his services to Britain, as was common for all Loyalist refugees.

Their other sibling, Thomas was a Loyalist or Tory sent into a brief exile in Glocester, Rhode Island, but Thomas remained friendly with the brothers throughout the war.

When Pickens approached the mortally wounded Boyd after the battle, the Loyalist leader, who had lived in South Carolina before the war and was known to Pickens, asked the Patriot leader to deliver a broach to his wife and inform her of his fate.