Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 6/16/2024 11:48 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

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 The single trigger event is when George Washington exiled the 120,000 Loyalists to South Africa instead of Canada after the USA Revolutionary war.
 In our reality, the 120,000 Loyalists were exiled to Canada from the USA.

I assume here that the attribution to Washington is in the book only, and that you know that in history he did nothing of the kind. Washington was far smarter and more just than that.
Unfortunately, the citizenry at large and various state governments were not.
But the vast majority of loyalists stayed behind, and played a role in the politics of the new nation.  The last laws against former loyalists were repealed a few years after the war, though local prejudice lasted much longer.
And Canada certainly did not receive 100k of loyalist immigrants.
 > I had no idea that this really happened in the late 1700s.
Not mentioned in high school history?
William Hyde