Tag: Battle of Moores Creek Bridge

Posted on March 19, 2024March 21, 2024

British Miscalculation of Loyalist Support in the American South, Round One

The Royal Governor of the Colony of North Carolina, Josiah Martin, was young and dedicated to the Crown. His popularity was waning as he urged members of the Assembly on April 4, 1774, to resist the monster of sedition that was raising its ugly head in the colonies. He knew that his appeals fell on […]

by Gerald Krieger

Posted on July 28, 2021July 27, 2021

The Odyssey of Loyalist Colonel Samuel Bryan

Colonel Samuel Bryan is thought to be the highest-ranking Loyalist officer to remain in the United States after the Revolutionary War. Despite being a high-ranking British officer in command of hundreds of men, little is known about him and the militia unit he commanded. With the arrival of British regulars in the Carolinas in 1780, […]

by Douglas R. Dorney, Jr.