Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

An "evocatively written examination" of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution (American Spectator).

The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, on the village green, and e...