Shadow soldiers of the American Revolution: loyalist tales from New York to Canada

In 1778, New York State Patriots forced colonists loyal to the British government to flee north into what became Ontario and Quebec.

Many of the defiant young British Americans soon returned south as soldiers, spies and scouts to fight for their multigenerational farms along the Mohawk River, Lake Champlain and the Hudson River Valley.

Jodoin offers an enlightened look back at ten of these young men and women, who, upon defeat, were banished from their ancestral homelands forever.