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11/25/2006, 08:03 AM
Nov. 25, 1783: Last British soldiers leave New York
Precisely 223 years ago, and nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the last British soldiers withdraw from New York City. NYC had been the last British military position in the United States.
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3470/mmmmmmmmmmm20680ww0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Brits and American loyalists depart NYC for Canada
After the last Lobsterbacks departed New York, U.S. General George Washington entered the city in triumph to the cheers of New Yorkers. The city had remained in British hands for seven long years since its capture in September 1776.
Four months after New York was returned to the victorious Patriots, the city was declared to be the capital of the United States. In 1789, it was the site of Washington's inauguration as the first U.S. president and remained the nation's capital until 1790, when Philadelphia became the second capital of the United States under the U.S. Constitution.
New Yorkers shaped the history of two new nations. The British evacuated their New York Loyalists to remaining British territories, mainly in Canada.
These families had been dispossessed of their land and belongings by the victorious Patriots because of their continued support of the British Crown. They were able to regain some financial independence through lands granted to them by the British in western Quebec (now Ontario) and Nova Scotia.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4507/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmcp6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Starting over in Canada
Their arrival in Canada permanently shifted the demographics of what had been French-speaking New France into an English-speaking colony, and later nation -- with the exception of a French-speaking and culturally French area in eastern Canada that is now the province called "Quebec."
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4001/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm20ik2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
New arrivals from NY draw lots for land in Canada.
In 1784, one year after their arrival, the new Loyalist population spurred the creation of "New Brunswick" in the previously unpopulated (by Europeans, at least) lands west of the Bay of Fundy in what had been Nova Scotia.
In 1785, the Loyalists yet again made their mark on Canadian history when their combined settlements at Parrtown and Carleton whch totalled approximately 14,000 people became British North America’s first incorporated city under the name of the "City of Saint John."
The division between the Anglophile and Francophile sections of Canada was ultimately recognized by creating the English-dominant province of "Ontario," west of Quebec, in 1867.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9576/mmmmmmmmmmmmgrayorktow1kr1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
From a Loyalist reenactors website. These guys lament the fact they don't have "Chili's" in Ottawa
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/685/insane7zosf2.jpg
Precisely 223 years ago, and nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the last British soldiers withdraw from New York City. NYC had been the last British military position in the United States.
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3470/mmmmmmmmmmm20680ww0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Brits and American loyalists depart NYC for Canada
After the last Lobsterbacks departed New York, U.S. General George Washington entered the city in triumph to the cheers of New Yorkers. The city had remained in British hands for seven long years since its capture in September 1776.
Four months after New York was returned to the victorious Patriots, the city was declared to be the capital of the United States. In 1789, it was the site of Washington's inauguration as the first U.S. president and remained the nation's capital until 1790, when Philadelphia became the second capital of the United States under the U.S. Constitution.
New Yorkers shaped the history of two new nations. The British evacuated their New York Loyalists to remaining British territories, mainly in Canada.
These families had been dispossessed of their land and belongings by the victorious Patriots because of their continued support of the British Crown. They were able to regain some financial independence through lands granted to them by the British in western Quebec (now Ontario) and Nova Scotia.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4507/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmcp6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Starting over in Canada
Their arrival in Canada permanently shifted the demographics of what had been French-speaking New France into an English-speaking colony, and later nation -- with the exception of a French-speaking and culturally French area in eastern Canada that is now the province called "Quebec."
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4001/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm20ik2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
New arrivals from NY draw lots for land in Canada.
In 1784, one year after their arrival, the new Loyalist population spurred the creation of "New Brunswick" in the previously unpopulated (by Europeans, at least) lands west of the Bay of Fundy in what had been Nova Scotia.
In 1785, the Loyalists yet again made their mark on Canadian history when their combined settlements at Parrtown and Carleton whch totalled approximately 14,000 people became British North America’s first incorporated city under the name of the "City of Saint John."
The division between the Anglophile and Francophile sections of Canada was ultimately recognized by creating the English-dominant province of "Ontario," west of Quebec, in 1867.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9576/mmmmmmmmmmmmgrayorktow1kr1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
From a Loyalist reenactors website. These guys lament the fact they don't have "Chili's" in Ottawa
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/685/insane7zosf2.jpg