Loyalist Sentence Examples

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  • There was also a strong loyalist sentiment.

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  • Skene was a Loyalist, and in May 1775 Skenesborough was seized by a party of American volunteers.

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  • During the War of Independence his descendant, William Bayard, was a loyalist, and his home was burned and his estate confiscated.

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  • The ability for you to determine a traitor from a loyalist is one of your most valuable talents.

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  • In 1770 most of the merchants agreed not to import goods from England and transferred their trade with New York City, where Loyalist influence was strong, to Boston and Philadelphia.

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  • The loyalist cease-fire allowed people to feel safer in publicly expressing political feelings in such a campaign.

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  • First settled about 1753, Brattleboro took its name from one of the original patentees, William Brattle (1702-1776), a Massachusetts loyalist.

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  • Uthman, from the Umayya clan, represented the tribal aristocracy of Mecca, and his victory annoyed a loyalist old guard.

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  • Just as the project began, the IRA, and shortly afterward the Combined Loyalist Military Command, announced cease-fires.

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  • Loyalist followers of the former dictator are accused of targeting Iraqis they perceive to be working with the U.S.-led coalition.

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  • That is the all too familiar experience of Protestants living in the Fountain, the last remaining loyalist enclave in Londonderry's west bank.

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  • As a reporter in the Belfast office of the Dublin-based Sunday World he had investigated the criminal and paramilitary activities of loyalist gangs.

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  • The undaunted spirit of the Loyalist people of the Fountain was an inspiration to all of our members.

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  • Despite this murder, the loyalist paramilitary cease-fire was still deemed to be in place.

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  • There is disagreement about whether loyalist violence is essentially reactive, but certainly the pattern of loyalist violence has shadowed republican violence.

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  • The tactic chosen by renegade loyalist Billy Wright of spreading terror by randomly choosing a victim had paid off.

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  • Kelly used the NIO figures to rubbish PSNI boss Hugh Orde's claims that republican and loyalist violence was a the same level.

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  • The first settlement was established in 1624 by Samuel Maverick (c. 1602 - c. 1670), the first settler (about 1629) of Noddle's Island (or East Boston), and one of the first slave-holders in Massachusetts; a loyalist and Churchman, in 1664 he was appointed with three others by Charles II.

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  • When, in June 1776, a vote on the Declaration of Independence was pending in the Continental Congress, the New York Provincial Congress refused to instruct its delegates in the matter; but a newly elected Provincial Congress, influenced by a Loyalist plot against the life of Washington, adopted the Declaration when it met, on the 9th of July.

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  • In 1748 a Protestant Episcopal Church was organized, and before and during the War of Independence its members belonged to the Loyalist party; their rector, Rev. James Nichols, was tarred and feathered by the Whigs, and Moses Dunbar, a member of the church, was hanged for treason by the Connecticut authorities.

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  • In the last three years there has been an upsurge in loyalist violence which has given cause for concern.

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  • Kelly used the NIO figures to rubbish PSNI boss Hugh Orde 's claims that republican and loyalist violence was a the same level.

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  • The Spaniards retained nominal possession of the Bahamas until 1783, but before peace was notified New Providence was recaptured by a loyalist,.

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  • It deprived the Quakers of their part in the control of the government and forced many Conservatives into the Loyalist party.

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  • He was one of the signers of the White Plains protest of April 1775 against "all unlawful congresses and committees," in many other ways proved himself a devoted loyalist, and wrote the Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress (1774) by "A.

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  • He confirms what Stevens says about British collusion with loyalist armed groups.

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  • Is he aware of what appears to be a loyalist feud in which there are attacks by loyalists on other loyalists?

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  • During the evening groups of Loyalist rioters began to make incursions into the Catholic Short Strand enclave of east Belfast.

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  • Is he aware of what appears to be a loyalist feud in which there are attacks by loyalist feud in which there are attacks by loyalists on other loyalists?

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  • Labor loyalist Polly Toynbee argues that you should ' Hold your nose, vote Blair and Brown will be the victor ' .

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  • In Portadown a loyalist mob went on a rampage through the town after a band parade.

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  • No longer the artisans of previous years, the modern loyalist mural painters were young men with more militant politics.

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  • The war that followed was really a severe civil conflict, the Loyalist and Revolutionary parties being almost equal in numbers.

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  • As the latter were largely of Loyalist sympathies during the war, the control of the local government then fell into the hands of the German inhabitants.

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  • The Loyalist sentiment was so strong that only five of the twelve parishes sent representatives to the First Provincial Congress, which met on the 18th of January 1775, and its delegates to the Continental.

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  • Other buildings of historic interest are the Parker Castle (c. 1729), a centre of Loyalist influence at the time of the War of Independence, and the Kearny Cottage, the home of "Madam Scribblerus," a halfsister of Captain James Lawrence.

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  • The court party became the Loyalist party, standing for law as against rebellion, monarchy and the union of the empire as against republicanism; the popular party became the patriot party, determined to stand on its rights at any cost.

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  • In 1779 Sullivan, with about 4000 men, defeated the Iroquois and their Loyalist allies at Newtown (now Elmira), New York, on the 29th of August, burned their villages, and destroyed their orchards and crops.

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  • But the initial difficulties of the vast field of operations were greatly increased by the want of skill of the British leaders in adapting themselves to new conditions, while even loyalist sentiment was shocked by the employment of German mercenaries and Red Indian savages against men of English blood.

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  • In November Lord Hartington and Mr Goschen were in Dublin, and addressed a great loyalist meeting there.

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  • In the spring of 1782 Franklin had been informally negotiating with Shelburne, secretary of state for the home department, through the medium of Richard Oswald, a Scotch merchant, and had suggested that England should cede Canada to the United States in return for the recognition of loyalist claims by the states.

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  • They fell upon isolated British posts established to protect the Loyalist population, and generally captured or broke them up. Rawdon found himself unable with his diminishing force to cover the country beyond Charleston; and he fell back to that place, leaving the situation in the south as it had been in the early part of 1780.

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  • At a period when all the world was a little mad, the parlement The had imagined a loyalist revolt, and, though it raised Fronde an armed protest, this was not against the king but of the against Mazarin and the persons to whom he had Parlenient.

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  • Under a " Trespass Law " of New York, Elizabeth Rutgers, a widow, brought suit against one Joshua Waddington, a Loyalist, who during the war of American Independence, while New York was occupied by the British, had made use of some of her property.

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  • Its policy "was to avoid notoriety and public attitudes; to secure privileges without attracting needless 1 A collection of these laws was published in his General History of Connecticut (London, 1781), by the Rev. Samuel Peters (1735-1826), a Loyalist clergyman of the Church of England, who in 1774 was forced by the patriots or Whigs to flee from Connecticut.

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  • The year 1778 saw the bloody operations of the Tory Butlers and their Loyalist and Indian allies in the Mohawk and Schoharie valleys and notably the massacre at Cherry Valley.

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  • In 1780 Georgetown was occupied by a body of Loyalist troops, with whom the American troops had several skirmishes, but on the Toth of August 1781 General Francis Marion forced the evacuation of the town and took possession of it.

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  • His Son, SIR John Johnson (1742-1830), Who was knighted in 1765 and succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death, took part in the French and Indian War and in the border warfare during the War of Independence, organizing a loyalist regiment known as the "Queen's Royal Greens," which he led at the battle of Oriskany and in the raids (1778 and 1780) on Cherry Valley and in the Mohawk Valley.

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