Yep, Most of them would form the core populations of Upper Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick after the rebellion.
-Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: > Not so. There were numerous British civilians in the colonies who > were loyal to the crown. The revolt was not unanimous by any means. > Paul > On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:13 PM, John Forbes wrote: > >> On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:51:52 +0100, graywolf >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> One side's patriot is the other side's traitor. One side's freedom >>> fighter is the other side's terrorist*. However, old Ben was never a >>> combatant. Much worse, he was a diplomat encouraging the King's more >>> dangerous enemies, the French. >>> >>> *To the best of my knowledge the rebels (revolutionists, since we >>> won) >>> never committed atrocities against civilians. The Kings men didn't >>> always draw that line however. But, that may depend upon whose >>> history >>> books you read. >>> >>> -graywolf >> Since the British civilians were 4,000 miles away, it would have >> been hard >> to have atrocified them. >> >> J >> >> >>> >>> Christian wrote: >>>> Bob W wrote: >>>>> It's Benjamin Franklin, >>>>> terrorist, >>>> We prefer "freedom fighter" or "patriot" :-) >>>> >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
