· Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War. From historian Thomas B. Allen, author of Remember Pearl Harbor and George Washington, Spy Master comes a sweeping, dramatic history of the Americans who fought alongside /5. Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War Thomas B. Allen, Harper, $ (p) ISBN making the Revolution a civil war that often pitted sons against. out of 5 starsThe Revolutionary War as America's First Civil War. As author Thomas Allen observes, Americans have selective memories regarding the Revolutionary War. Soon after the war, the victorious rebels began “to forgive—and forget—the Tories/5(70).
Really good book on America's First Civil War a.k.a. the American Revolution. Given that sources are sparse Allen gives a good review on how brutal the war really was. It was not just a line of soldiers shooting at each other in a farmer's field, it was a neighbor vs neighbor burning down whole "Tory Towns" or Patriot villages in the North and. bltadwin.ru: Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War () by Allen, Mr. Thomas B and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Tories Fighting For the King in America's First Civil War by Thomas B. Allen: Return to main page: Who Were the Tories? Supporting royal rule, they called themselves Loyalists. Fighting for the King. The many regiments of the Tory Army The First Exiles. Hundred of Boston Tories flee to Canada in Punishing the Tories. From tar-and-feathers.
Allen is able to recreate the Revolutionary war, so we can see it in new light: that of a civil war. As Allen says, Americans "would call the Revolution a war between Americans and the British, losing from their collective memory the fact To be honest I probably would have been a Tory. Tories: fighting for the King in America's first civil war Tories: fighting for the King in America's first civil war by Allen, Thomas B. Publication date. Most Americans have learned the essential narrative of the American Revolution: Our Founding Fathers led proud Patriots to fight against British rule and ultimately prevailed. Rarely mentioned are the thousands of Tories, or Loyalists, who supported the British and fought to remain in their American homes as loyal subjects of the crown. Historian Thomas B. Allen contends the American Revolution was as much a civil war as it was a rebellion against the British.
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