. Canada under British rule, 1760-1900. to have been loyal to England, andrallied, notably in the townships of Annapolis, Horton andWindsor, to the defence of the country, at the call of theauthorities. In 1783 the humiliated king of England consented to apeace with his old colonies, who owed their success not somuch to the unselfishness and determination of the greatbody of the rebels as to the incapacity of British generals andto the patience, calmness, and resolution of the one great manof the revolution, George Washington. I shaU in a laterchapter refer to this treaty in which the boundari
. Canada under British rule, 1760-1900. to have been loyal to England, andrallied, notably in the townships of Annapolis, Horton andWindsor, to the defence of the country, at the call of theauthorities. In 1783 the humiliated king of England consented to apeace with his old colonies, who owed their success not somuch to the unselfishness and determination of the greatbody of the rebels as to the incapacity of British generals andto the patience, calmness, and resolution of the one great manof the revolution, George Washington. I shaU in a laterchapter refer to this treaty in which the boundaries betweenCanada and the new republic were so ignorantly and clumsilydefined that it took half a century and longer to setde thevexed questions that arose in connection with territorial rights,and then the settlement was to the injury of Canada. Sofar as the treaty aflected the Provinces its most importantresult was the forced migration of that large body of peoplewho had remained faithful to the crown and empire duringthe 76 Canada under British Rule. [CHAP. Section 3.— The United Empire Loyalists, John Adams and other authorities in the United States haveadmitted that when the first shot of the revolution was fired by^the embattled farmers of Concord and Lexington, theLoyalists numbered one-third of the whole population of thecolonies, or seven hundred thousand whites. Others believethat the number was larger, and that the revolutionary party wasin a minority even after the declaration of independence. Thegreater number of the Loyalists were to be found in the presentslate of New York, where the capital was in possession of theBritish from September, 1776, until the evacuation in were also the majority in Pennsylvania and the southerncolonies of South Carolina and Georgia. In all the otherstates they represented a large minority of the best class oftheir respective communities. It is estimated that there wereactually from thirty to thirty-five thousan
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