Although, there are no accurate numbers of how many American colonists remained “loyal“ to the British during the American Revolution, it is indisputable that support for the war was far from universal. John Adams is quoted as saying that a “full one third were adverse to the Revolution … an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English … the middle one third … were rather luke-warm.” (Adams, 110)

Due to these opposing forces within the colonies, the American “Revolution” could be more accurately described as a civil war, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a brutal struggle to define the economy and politics of new nation. Even after the war, it t

ook years to settle the old hatreds and to have once again a newly independent nation united.

On the battlefield, it was the fighting between the loyalist Tories and the continental rebel armies that were the most hostile. It was the rebel militias that actually eliminated a great deal of the loyalist support throughout the war. Soon after the revolution began, some states began to require that citizens sign an oath of allegiance to the revolutionary cause, those who didn’t were fined, and in the worst cases, put to death.

In fact, much of America’s victory can be contributed to the rebel control over the loyalists. America’s victory in the Revolutionary War was merely the logical culmination of the protests against British rule.

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