Virginia Governor Proclaims April “Confederate History Month”

[Peikko 1,575]

When is the US going to introduce UK history month and celebrate the good 'ol Kingdom?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

When is the US going to introduce UK history month and celebrate the good 'ol Kingdom?

Now that's damn funny.

[scandal 951]

When is the US going to introduce UK history month and celebrate the good 'ol Kingdom?

This concept already exists. Why do you think it's funny?

United Empire Loyalists (UEL) proudly proclaim their fealty to the crown to this very day, 230 years after their ancestors demonstrated it by packing their bags and heading north to Canada.

During the American Revolution, a significant proportion of the population of New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, East Florida, West Florida and other colonies remained loyal to the Crown. They later chose or were forced to flee to the protection of their King, within the British Empire. The reasons were as varied as the people themselves, but primary reasons were either loyalty to the King and unwillingness to rebel against the Crown, or the belief in peaceful and evolutionary independence (as occurred in Canada under the impetus of the resettled U.S. Loyalists). As Daniel Bliss of Concord, Mass (who later became a Chief Justice of New Brunswick) stated, "Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, then a thousand tyrants one mile away." Many Loyalist refugees made the difficult overland trek into Canada after losing their place, property, and security during the Revolution. The Loyalists, many of whom helped found America from the early 1600s, left a well-armed population hostile to the King and his loyalist subjects to build the new nation of Canada. The motto of New Brunswick, created out of Nova Scotia for loyalist settlement, is "Hope Restored."

[luckytxn 2,265]

This concept already exists. Why do you think it's funny?

United Empire Loyalists (UEL) proudly proclaim their fealty to the crown to this very day, 230 years after their ancestors demonstrated it by packing their bags and heading north to Canada.

Not to mention the many loyalist traitors that were forced to leave and tarred and feathered and land confiscated and what not to make their stay here miserable.

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