colonist loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution. Loyalists constituted about one-third of the population of the American colonies during that conflict. They were not confined to any particular group or class, but their numbers were...

American colonist loyal to Britain in the American Revolution. About one-third of American colonists were loyalists, including officeholders who served the British crown, large landholders, wealthy merchants, Anglican clergy and their parishioners, and...

Native Americans and blacks fought on both sides during the American Revolution. Native American participation began in the earliest days of the conflict when, in March of 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress accepted an offer from the...

Loyalists were British North American colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolution. They were also called Tories, King's Men, or Royalists. Those Loyalists who left and resettled in Canada called themselves...

As a child, I remember being very intrigued by the idea that, if you had any English ancestors (and I did) you were almost certainly related to William the Conqueror. This was not because William the Conqueror was a particularly prolific parent, but...

J.B. Cheaney is a freelance writer and history buff who lives in rural Missouri. Her first novel, The Playmaker, is slated for publication by Random House in the fall of 2000. October 7, 1780: On a rugged hill near the border of...

Fatah loyalists who fled the Hamas takeover of Gaza huddled Friday in the lobby of the best hotel in Ramallah, chain-smoking, drinking Turkish coffee _ and trying to come to terms with their new lives in exile.They fielded phone calls from relatives in Gaza and...

Haitians danced in the streets to celebrate the overthrow of dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, heckling the tubby, boyish tyrant as he was driven to the airport in a black limousine and flown into exile in 1986.Most Haitians hoped the rapacious strongman known as "Baby Doc" had...