Contributed by Jim Gillgam Our patriot ancestors were fighting against not just British troops from England, but their own countrymen that stayed loyal to the King. This is not a complete list, but it gives an idea of the thousands of loyalist troops involved. Most of these troops and their families resettled in Canada after the war ended. Some stayed and faced persecution by the patriots. The Royal American Regiment/60th Foot The Carolina King's Rangers The Royal Fencible Americans The Kings American Dragoons Jessup's Battalion Pieters Corps Rawdon's Volunteers of Ireland The Royal Invincible Americans "Royal Greens" Lord Dunmore's Royal Ethopian Regiment The Scotch Loyalists The Royal Highland Regiment/42nd Foot The Queen's Rangers Loyal Nova Scotia Volunteers The New York Volunteers The King's American regiment The Prince of Wales' American Regiment The Maryland Loyalists Battalion of Chasseurs Georgia Loyal Rangers The Forty-Second Regiment of Highlanders The Seventy-Fourth Regiment of Highlanders De Lancey's Battalions The Second American regiment The South Carolina Royalists The North Carolina Highland Regiment The King's American Dragoons The Royal Highland Emigrants/84th Foot The Loyal American Regiment The American Legion The New Jersey Volunteers The British Legion The Loyal Foresters The Kings Orange Rangers The Pennsylvania Loyalist The Royal Guides and Pioneers The North Carolina Volunteers The Georgia Loyalists The West Chester Volunteers The Loyal New Englanders The Associated Loyalists Militia Governor Wentworth's Volunteers The Queens Rangers The Black Pioneers Bucks County Dragoons The South Carolina Loyalists The North Carolina Loyalists The North Carolina Highlanders The Royal North Carolina Regiment |