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 the United Empire Loyalists.
United Empire Loyalist Benjamin Thompson New Brunswick Joseph Brant Loyalist The Bahamas Benjamin Franklin Sierra Leone American Revolution First Nations Thomas Brown (loyalist) Nova Scotia John Howe (loyalist) Myles Cooper Arent DePeyster Loyal American Regiment James Chalmers (loyalist) Beverley Robinson Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet William Stark Cortlandt Skinner Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation Isaac Low Tench Coxe Edward Jessup Peggy Shippen Plain Truth Martin v. Hunter's Lessee Rangers Standing Orders Walter Butler (Loyalist) Joseph Galloway King's Royal Regiment of New York Simon Girty John Butler (pioneer) The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC) Flora MacDonald (Scottish Jacobite) War of the Regulation Krio Bernard Bailyn William Franklin
