Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

In article <robertaw-D3EBEB.21520117062024@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <v4qmh1$10mc5$1@dont-email.me>,
William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
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Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 6/17/2024 5:26 PM, William Hyde wrote:

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.
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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loyalists were repealed a few years after the war, though local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.
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And Canada certainly did not receive 100k of loyalist immigrants.
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 > I had no idea that this really happened in the late 1700s.
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Not mentioned in high school history?
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William Hyde

 
https://www.britannica.com/topic/loyalist
 

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But we didn't get 100k.  After all, if you are a loyalist from Georgia,
do you really want to grow turnips in Upper Canada, or sugar in Jamaica?
And if you're a urban type from NY, do you chose Montreal or London?
 
When I was a kid there were still people who added "UE" to their names
as descendants of the loyalists.  It's been a long while since I've seen
that, though.
 

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My paternal grandmother denied it, but my late father believed that she
had Loyalist ancestors because she had ancestors born in the regions of
Canada that had Loyalist settlements (IIRC, initially settled by
Loyalists).

UE's were well enough remembered when I went to school in the 1960s
that one of my teachers, presumable not a UE, carefully explained
UEs were terribly inbred. I doubt that was on the curriculum and
I'd love to know the backstory to why she felt the need to say
that.

Somone being proudly UEL comes up in a Davies novel set in the ...
1940s?  1950s? Not on a complementary context.

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