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Wikipedia: The name United Empire Loyalists is an honorific name given after the fact to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War and prior to the Treaty of Paris. Some sought to recover fortunes (land and private property) lost under laws enacted by the Continental Congress to finance the revolution with confiscated properties. Most, however, are believed to have gone north because the British offered them free land, or because they rejected the republican ideals of the American Revolution, which they regarded as anarchistic .
![[Monument to United Empire Loyalists]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/LoyalistMonumentSaintJohnNBCanada_s.jpg "Monument to United Empire Loyalists")
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![[The Coming of the Loyalists, painting by Henry Sandham showing a romanticised view of the Loyalists' arrival in...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Henry_Sandham_The_Coming_of_the_Loyalists_s.jpg "The Coming of the Loyalists, painting by Henry Sandham showing a romanticised view of the Loyalists' arrival in...")
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