As one cynical Loyalist wrote: Tis an honor to serve the bravest of nations And be left to be hanged in their capitulations. By the spring of 1783, a massive refugee exodus was under way.

Hannah and her family arrived in 1783. Like many other Loyalists, Hannah Ingraham's family was given 200 acres of land on arriving in Nova Scotia in 1783. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's ...

The town was first settled by Black British Loyalists after the American Revolution, who left New York harbors in 1783 seeking freedom. Just as I did as a toddler, crossing the vast Atlantic Ocean ...

It would be the last stop before exile. By the spring of 1783, New York was teeming with loyalist refugees and the remains of the British army; perhaps 70,000 souls in all. By the summer ...