The Losing Side: An Organizational Analysis of American Loyalists

FAIN: FT-12632-75

Karen K. Hopkins
SUNY Research Foundation, College at Brockport (Brockport, NY 14420-2997)

To assess the adequacy of each of three alternative explanations concerning the failure of the Loyalists to organize successfully against the American Revolutionary movement. Historians' interpretations are based on 3 ideas: (1) splits within the Loyalists made cooperative action impossible; (2) Loyalists failed to realize the significance of the threat posed by the Patriots; (3) Loyalists were so dependent on English sources for support that independent action was precluded.