I'm an Englishman. Many years ago I went to Maine for a week. I met a guy there working as a waiter and we started chatting - I was astonished that he was a British loyalist - I had no idea that such a person existed in the 20th century! This was in the late 80s or early 90s.
Neither did I, are you sure you weren't in Canada? Did you get this guys address I know some patriot friends who'd like to visit him and give him the traditional welcome...☠
@@unatco1148 American culture is an offshoot of english culture however there are many people of germanic descent in america the original USA is the 13 colonies the rest is filler
@@prussiankingdom1693 Do you mean nearly a third of the country was thrown out into Canada where they made a far more admirable country and decades later repelled an invasion intended to make them join the US?
I am descended from almost pure Loyalist Stock. The Rebels almost hanged my 5 Greats Grandfather. He escaped with the rope still around his neck. I really appreciate that you posted this.
Anything starting as evil can never end good. Americans were outlawed traitors in the beginning, mixed races and ethnicity soup as they are closing their end.
The Light Infantry badge still carries a memento of the US war for independence. After a particularly successful raid the rebels threatened to kill any light infantryman captured. In an act of bravado, the light infantry told them that to help the rebels identify them, they would wear red feathers in their headgear. Today the badge still has a red felt backing.
when you realize you got mad about a temporary sales tax only the richest 1% of colonists had to pay to defend your homes from the French and Spanish, but end up paying 50% in income and sales taxes from food to fuel till the day you die.
@@cocoaexists Actually the Scotland England and Wales has just as good Dental health then the US But I live in Northern Ireland and the dental health here is questionable
@@ThervingianGoth yeah in american history we never hear about him except as the big bad guy (rolls eyes) wasn't he crazy with dementia or whatever towards the end though with napoleon?
I've heard that as late as the early 1900's some of the richer Anglo American families continued to send their sons to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before serving as officers in the the same regiments as their ancestors.
My family in most branches were Loyalist. My 5th great grandfather on my mother's paternal side in New York colony was subject to an attempted hanging by the rebels. He managed to escape their grasp and ran into the woods with his hands still tied behind his back, the rope still around his neck and musket balls whizzing around his head. This story was told in an account by one of his comrades and was unknown in my family until I read it. He lived to the age of 104 or 5.
I'm not saying this couldn't have happened but another guy said almost the exact same thing, right down to the "rope around his neck" remark. So either both of you are lying or one of you are telling the truth
@@saxtonhalegaming I found this out since it isn't a story that came down in the family by googling his name and finding a geneologicl site where he was listed. The story was written down by another prominent Loyalist from the same part of New York Province. My 5 greats Grandfather was Daniel Berentson Cole and the man that wrote it down was Hans Waltermeyer or in its anglicised form John Walden Meyers.
Yankees and Dixies: Still bitter about the Civil War American Loyalists to the British Empire: I'll pretend I wasn't even here Also, GOD SAVE GREAT GEORGE OUR KING! Imagine all former colonies of the British Empire united under the British Crown, what an empire it would be. From a Filipino Monarchist wishing for the restoration of the Spanish Empire and the Iberian Union! VIVA EL REY! POR DIOS, PATRIA Y EL REY! VIVA FILIPINAS Y ESPANYA!
@@zyzor ohio is with you, i pray for the day that the empire reclaims its rightful land or the day that i have the money to leave this place and go home
I've often thought that if the colonies had remained part of the British Empire, slavery would have ended in the 1830's and there never would have been a civil war. Canada and the US would be one big country, still part of the British Commonwealth.
@@anon8740 The Slave trade was banned throughout the Empire in 1807. To enforce this the Royal Navy had a dedicated Atlantic patrol and any one caught breaking this law would be boarded, fined, and all their slaves would be freed. Slavery itself was banned in 1837, and their freedom was paid for by British taxpayers who only finished paying off the massive debt in 2014.
@@wattyler2994 the Hanoverians are not/were not "usurpers of the true royal family - the Stuarts"... the Hanoverians inherited the Crown on the death of Queen Anne - the last Stuart monarch, just as the Stuarts inherited the Crowns of England and Ireland on the death of Queen Elizabeth I - the last Tudor monarch, thus uniting them with the crown of Scotland. How on earth can you even clam that the true royal family is the Stuarts? How on earth can you even clam that theirs even such a thing as an "true royal family"?
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland, until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, which he then became, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, until his death in 1820 George III was never titled "King George III of England, Scotland and Ireland", no monarch since 1707 has ever been titled King or Queen "of England, Scotland and Ireland"... Queen Anne was the last monarch to have that title, which lasted until 1707 at which point she became Queen Anne of of Great Britain and Ireland.
@@foundationofBritain James VII was succeeded by his son James VIII as rightful King in 1701. Mary & Anne were usurpers, albeit having a better claim than the germans
Me as well. From what I know it was a bunch of wealthy people whipping up the rabble against taxes which mostly affected those same wealthy people. I continue to say that it could have been a situation where one had to be there to understand, but from my perspective now treason was by no means warranted; especially since they got most of what they wanted through protest beforehand.
@@codieomeallain6635 The people likely wouldn't have fought the British if they didn't try to take their guns though. Hard to trust the people who weren't doing well economically more so when they try to take really your only defense. Just like in todays world chances are if the US government actually tried to go around and take peoples firearms it would probably end up in a similar situation.
This song written at the time captures the true dynamism of 18th century warfare. The armies did not just march slowly towards each other, they moved rapidly, aggressively always looking to outflank their opponent. The battles in the American revolution, particularly towards the end of the war were fluid and kenetic
@@braydenfarrell1177 I respect Collins for not joining the anti-treaty IRA and defying democracy that republicans promised six years prior. He shouldn't have been assassinated.
@@colinmcnamara7999 I'm british by decent anyway and enjoy these songs but rights were relinquished heritage aside were all still americans buy its good to be proud of your roost so I commend you
The problem with that sentiment is that Benedict Arnold switched to the British cause for personal reasons not out of a change of heart, his story is actually a sad downfall of a once respected general of the Continental Army, he was reduced to nothing and was shunned by the Patriots leading him to switch sides.
I really wish the empire kept America as a colony, the world would be a better place. I'm American, but I know that I will always be apart of Britain. Long live Britain!! God save the queen!! 🇬🇧💙
You deserve respect for such a strong statement, also because you admit that Americans and English are single nation. That war for independence was absolutely useless. Btw hello from Russia.
If you look into it you will find that there is no such thing as the USA, it is technically still a colony of Great Britain. The declaration of independence was written as a trade contract as there was no other legal way to do it. Take a look.
@@RobertK1993 1. I lived in the Midwest my entire life 2. The "shit empire" colonized and conquered 1/4 of all land on Earth. They also were the strongest economically until the Great War. All of this was AFTER America revolted. I'd wouldn't say that Britian was a "shit empire".
I love this song. I think it is time for a new rendition with informal period instruments. I have known it for over 30 years. As far as I know, this version, from Songs and Music of the Redcoats is the only recorded version. So many people do 18th Century music. I think it time someone very serious about period music freshens this up.
Like a lot of Americans, I had ancestors who served on both sides. One man, who served with Banastre Tarleton, had his property confiscated and he personally had go flee west into Tennessee.
British Light Infantry, 1778 This song was published in the Royal Gazette, at New York, with the accompanying remarks: "Observing in a late paper a song written for the British Light Infantry, 1 introduced with a hint that they had not hitherto received their merited tribute from the muses, I take the liberty of making them the tender of a second musical offering, which, though never yet published, has been frequently sung and re-echoed, in loyal companies, for many months past in this city; nor will the offering, perhaps, be the less welcome, for being presented in a plain, unornamented dress, and by the hand of a loyal American refugee." The song was adapted to the tune, "Black Sloven."
Can you find a rendition - to the Tradesmans's song for his majesty's birthday 1777 (George III) (Sung to the tune: When Britain First at Heaven's Command)
I know it's been more than two hundred plus years since both the revoluonary war and the war of 1812. I'm a colonial loyalist/loyalist to the crown I've haven't met any other loyalist here in america as of yet. But i have had the pleasure and honour of meeting people from the U.K. and commonweatlh countries, and pordon me for any and all missed spelled words.
Because Britain was absolutely justified to tax America. They spent a ton of money on the 7 years war, which PROTECTED the colonies from the French. And then Britain needs money so of course they tax the people they are protecting. That’s like going to a McDonalds and not paying for your meal.
I actually didn't think there was American loyalists till I was 13. As a person from Northern Ireland, you'd think their are none of Northern Ireland in America. When I found out about this last year in 2020 I was shocked.
@@ThervingianGoth yes "american by birth but british by the grace of god"cringy quote from Google that I still agree with wish there was a better one tho
@@wattyler2994 They didn't give up the fight as a whole no but there were many that did give up and many that deserted. because there were many that didn't believe in fighting against their own people which only made them more vulnerable to defeat I mean the American Revolution was British against British really. But then don't forget the patriots or blue coats had the help of the French, the Spanish, the Dutch and it took eight years to beat the British. That's how much of a formidable force the British are when it comes to war even to this day. But then George Washington had that British ingenuity of his British great grandparents.
What you have to remember is that many of Washingtons soldiers were of British desent . many were born in the UK. So do not go on about Americans. They were colonists Fighting against their brothers. As we did in our civil war against king Charles the first. You were fighting against a royalist dictator. Unfortunately we had a useless commander in chief . If we have had a good one Things would be quite different now. We in the UK have had ups and downs but we are still going strong. Now that we are out of the nasty EU , we will grow even stronger.
My regiment was involved in the Boston tea party, decades later with our same colour's, afghanistan. Thats the 3rd time in history as well 👍 british light line infantry
13 colonies: Lets revolt because of taxes After amarica is founded: *13 states still pay taxes* 13 states: This is totally NOT what the British did to us.
@@brremsilverte.9022 Which only really makes sense if the Tax was going back to Britain or if the Americans where being taxed more then their British counterparts, in both cases they where not, the stamp tax was 100% for use in the colonies to start to try and pay for the defenses that had to be built there against the French, the British didn't think it was particularly fair to make the people in Britain pay for this given they already paid 17 times more in taxes on average while being half as rich as the average colonist. A modern day example of this is when America gets annoyed at everyone else letting them carry the bill in NATO and only like 5 other countries pay their 2% requirement.
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I'm an Englishman. Many years ago I went to Maine for a week. I met a guy there working as a waiter and we started chatting - I was astonished that he was a British loyalist - I had no idea that such a person existed in the 20th century! This was in the late 80s or early 90s.
Neither did I, are you sure you weren't in Canada? Did you get this guys address I know some patriot friends who'd like to visit him and give him the traditional welcome...☠
@Wat Tyler You forgot to capitalise the P.
Small p patriot requires loyalty to one's country, not to revolutionary ideals.
Wat Tyler patriots support the British.
It is only a matter of time until the remainder see the error of their ways.
@@jimweights8908 like those who stormed the Capitol building? Yeh of course.
Bro props to this guy for going back 256 years to record this
This is a popular folk song in English-Canada
Makes sense, a lot of Ontario's first english colonists were American loyalists that fled the states
@@spooky_cat401
There are more canadians of
english descent than americans.
@@unatco1148 really? there is over 70 million of them here I thought
@@unatco1148
American culture is an offshoot of english culture however there are many people
of germanic descent in america the original USA is the 13 colonies the rest is filler
Bloody tune, wish I was born in the 18th century and that I could leave behind all these snowflake liberals
The Loyalists are so fascinating, Thank you for this!
@@RobertK1993 Cringe
@@RobertK1993 you're very special
@Digger Gardi you sound like the average American who still buys into the left vs right dichotomy, you're a modern loyalist
They petty much fleed to Canada. They are no longer Americans. Except the modern ones, which are cringe.
@@prussiankingdom1693 Do you mean nearly a third of the country was thrown out into Canada where they made a far more admirable country and decades later repelled an invasion intended to make them join the US?
Redcoats and their loyalist allies were interesting. Good video
Welsh Rebel thanks I guess? It's auto correct.
I prefer call The lobsters to British infantry. It is nice
If these loyalists love taxes so much, they should come to Brazil, and have all kid of taxes that they can imagine
@@vitorfaster3577 or maybe they just don’t like the idea of treason
@@couldbeanybody2508 can be
As a former light infantryman, I really enjoyed this song.
Ditto
Then your about 300 years old
@@epicgamingcommunistcheems4267 dude light infantry is still a division in the British army man
Light infantry, is anything but.
@Dorian Redwine Why?
I am descended from almost pure Loyalist Stock. The Rebels almost hanged my 5 Greats Grandfather. He escaped with the rope still around his neck. I really appreciate that you posted this.
So are you Canadian?
@@DaChaGee I am.
@JW2 it's almost 3 centuries since the war of independence
Anything starting as evil can never end good. Americans were outlawed traitors in the beginning, mixed races and ethnicity soup as they are closing their end.
@user-jz9yc2bj9cAmericans are by and large, historically illiterate
Played this in the dollar store. Now its called poundland
damn imma yake my homie there
You see Ashens?
It rarely to see a Loyalist song-Good job that you found one!
America meby but not northern ireland
@@Ethan_Edgar1209 No Surrender lad. Ulster forever
could name about 30😭 fs man these plastic fans are even talking about loyalist music🤣🤣
Because the UK sucks, burn it down and free Scotland🇺🇸❤🏴🏴🏴
@@hunteryoungblood649 correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not a Scotsman singing this song?
I thought this sort of "loyalist music" was only found in Northern Ireland, so what a gem this is. It's even musically very similar to the NI ones.
There's a reason why this sort of "loyalist" music is only played in Northern Ireland. And fat lot of good it does them...
@Digger Gardi sung by a scott, I think
@Kerimcan Ak ulster Scots is a dialect not a language
@Kerimcan Ak Arguably, but that doesn't make Ulster Scots a language
@@wattyler2994 It's literally and legally a language. Even Scots is.
It's good to hear a song that may have been sung my my ancestors before their exile.
@JW2 Firstly to Canada, then back to Britain and last out to Australia as free settlers.
The Light Infantry badge still carries a memento of the US war for independence. After a particularly successful raid the rebels threatened to kill any light infantryman captured. In an act of bravado, the light infantry told them that to help the rebels identify them, they would wear red feathers in their headgear. Today the badge still has a red felt backing.
Glory to the Empire!
God bless them
I like this song
As a Rebel, I can't deny the beauty of this song.
*LOS MUCHACHOS PERONISTAS*
One of my favorites
BASED P E R O N
Played this in Washington (D.C)
It's now Wallington
Good
LOL
@@AnEnglishPerson someone hasn't played HoI4
@@borkerman gamer. Also no gf.
@@globe0147 i agree, sitting down listening to songs and watching videos all day is MUCH better than playing a game...
bloody idiot
when you realize you got mad about a temporary sales tax only the richest 1% of colonists had to pay to defend your homes from the French and Spanish, but end up paying 50% in income and sales taxes from food to fuel till the day you die.
@@SireJaxs *laughs in Fed Reserve*
ok dont care atleast im not bri ish
Why I'm a loyalists.
Atleast I have better dental health
@@cocoaexists Actually the Scotland England and Wales has just as good Dental health then the US
But I live in Northern Ireland and the dental health here is questionable
God Save the King.
Dominic V King Charles is getting ready, soon? Lol
He died
Dominic V king George is not a very good king
@@nariyah8374 He did fight Napoleon, no one talks about that though.
@@ThervingianGoth yeah in american history we never hear about him except as the big bad guy (rolls eyes) wasn't he crazy with dementia or whatever towards the end though with napoleon?
I've heard that as late as the early 1900's some of the richer Anglo American families continued to send their sons to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before serving as officers in the the same regiments as their ancestors.
Doesn’t surprise me at all.
My family in most branches were Loyalist. My 5th great grandfather on my mother's paternal side in New York colony was subject to an attempted hanging by the rebels. He managed to escape their grasp and ran into the woods with his hands still tied behind his back, the rope still around his neck and musket balls whizzing around his head. This story was told in an account by one of his comrades and was unknown in my family until I read it. He lived to the age of 104 or 5.
God Bless His soul
I'm not saying this couldn't have happened but another guy said almost the exact same thing, right down to the "rope around his neck" remark. So either both of you are lying or one of you are telling the truth
@@saxtonhalegaming Hanging people was pretty common back then as far as I know.
@@saxtonhalegaming it was probably me. I have another UA-cam account sometimes I'm not sure which one I'm using.
@@saxtonhalegaming I found this out since it isn't a story that came down in the family by googling his name and finding a geneologicl site where he was listed. The story was written down by another prominent Loyalist from the same part of New York Province. My 5 greats Grandfather was Daniel Berentson Cole and the man that wrote it down was Hans Waltermeyer or in its anglicised form John Walden Meyers.
Loving this. Up the Empire! 🇬🇧
@Digger Gardi I think you're taking this comment far too seriously.
God save the queen! 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸
🇳🇿🇦🇺🇦🇮🇻🇬🇰🇾🇨🇰🇫🇰🇲🇸🇳🇺🇵🇳🇬🇸🇸🇭🇹🇻🇹🇨
For king and country
🇬🇧🇧🇲🇦🇺🇦🇮🇦🇨🇨🇰🇨🇦🇩🇬🇫🇯🇫🇰🇬🇸🇭🇲🇰🇾🇲🇸🇳🇿🇳🇺🇵🇳🇹🇦🇹🇨🇸🇭🇻🇬🇹🇻🏴🏴🏴
RedSpartan 822 your pfp scares me, it's moving
@@joutakujo9773 Strange it does not for me
God Save the Empire!
When you realize that you started a revolution because you had to spend a dollar extra on paper and couldn't buy smuggled goods:
And slaves because anti slave laws were being passed.
A year late but lets not forget the Tyranny of not allowing the colonists to settle native land
You should look into finding more American Loyalist Music.
There are a few - but they are obscure.
If anyone finds a video send it to me. This is the only one I could find.
@@godkingandcountry7081 umm can you do the falklands war song
@@godkingandcountry7081 this is from the redcoats druid album look it up they have many good songs such as " Hot Stuff" and also " Jolly Die Hards"
Nah.... you have plenty of those, Zac. Nice to have a more balanced playing field, wouldn't you say?
Fun fact most pro-Brits moved to Canada but some stayed. I know some loyalists today over in the USA
Based 🇬🇧🇨🇦
Brothers for every 🇬🇧🇨🇦
Yankees and Dixies: Still bitter about the Civil War
American Loyalists to the British Empire: I'll pretend I wasn't even here
Also, GOD SAVE GREAT GEORGE OUR KING! Imagine all former colonies of the British Empire united under the British Crown, what an empire it would be.
From a Filipino Monarchist wishing for the restoration of the Spanish Empire and the Iberian Union! VIVA EL REY! POR DIOS, PATRIA Y EL REY! VIVA FILIPINAS Y ESPANYA!
Pretty much because we're all in Canada lol
PROTON MAXIMUM not quite. We still exist in America in small numbers. God save the queen. Death to traitors and rebels!!!
@@zyzor ohio is with you, i pray for the day that the empire reclaims its rightful land
or the day that i have the money to leave this place and go home
@@zyzor we shall be back
@@protonmaximum6193 commenwealth needs to take america back! the natives say so.
I am not American, I am Canadian and Scottish, but I certainly am a British loyalist.
Proud of my province British Columbia.
I also love the empire
Imagine simping for the Bri'ish
@@iagreesbut Imagine being an Amerimutttt
@@iagreesbut Gee golly imagine simping for the BUILDERS OF MODERN CIVILIZATION. Crazy right?
@@fyrdman2185 your country is going to be fully african and pakistani in 20 years and you dont have guns lmao, priorities much
I'm British through and through long may it continue from Glasgow.
Shame the snp is breaking the union up:(
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@BirdsfromHuntingdon🇬🇧🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇧🇲🇨🇰🇨🇼🇩🇬🇫🇯🇫🇰🇬🇮🇬🇸🇭🇲🇰🇾🇲🇸🇳🇺🇳🇿🇵🇳🇸🇭🇹🇦🇹🇨🇹🇻🇻🇬 (couldn't find the rest)
No Surrender from Ulster, hands across the water
You’re dna would say otherwise also Scottish not British
Love from Canada 🇬🇧🤝🇨🇦
I remember when I went to New England. I couldn’t believe it. It looked just like a village in the English Home Counties.
I've often thought that if the colonies had remained part of the British Empire, slavery would have ended in the 1830's and there never would have been a civil war. Canada and the US would be one big country, still part of the British Commonwealth.
Slavery ended in Canada West, (Ontario) in 1793.
Ah , but that would have needed an imaginary creature - an honest politician.
@@rpm1796
Slavery was banned in England in the 12th century. And the slave trade throughout the Empire in 1807.
@@johnbrereton5229 The reason OP says 1830s though is because that's when slavery was banned empire-wide
@@anon8740
The Slave trade was banned throughout the Empire in 1807. To enforce this the Royal Navy had a dedicated Atlantic patrol and any one caught breaking this law would be boarded, fined, and all their slaves would be freed.
Slavery itself was banned in 1837, and their freedom was paid for by British taxpayers who only finished paying off the massive debt in 2014.
*God Save Your Majesty, King George III of England, Scotland and Ireland!* 🇬🇧🏴
@@braydenfarrell1177 well neither is George king… he’s dead.
Not in Scoland. He would be Seoras III and the Hanoverians would still be usurpers of the true royal family - the Stuarts
@@wattyler2994 the Hanoverians are not/were not "usurpers of the true royal family - the Stuarts"... the Hanoverians inherited the Crown on the death of Queen Anne - the last Stuart monarch, just as the Stuarts inherited the Crowns of England and Ireland on the death of Queen Elizabeth I - the last Tudor monarch, thus uniting them with the crown of Scotland.
How on earth can you even clam that the true royal family is the Stuarts?
How on earth can you even clam that theirs even such a thing as an "true royal family"?
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland, until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, which he then became, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, until his death in 1820
George III was never titled "King George III of England, Scotland and Ireland", no monarch since 1707 has ever been titled King or Queen "of England, Scotland and Ireland"... Queen Anne was the last monarch to have that title, which lasted until 1707 at which point she became Queen Anne of of Great Britain and Ireland.
@@foundationofBritain James VII was succeeded by his son James VIII as rightful King in 1701. Mary & Anne were usurpers, albeit having a better claim than the germans
Rest in Peace. True Americans.
Fuck you
@@jitrax-_-5206 yeet
Frick off
@Your local Austro-Hungarian Infantryman lmao 🤣🤣🤣
No the True Americans are those who owned the land before the settlement of the continent by European Colonists
Though I'm from America, I'd probably be a Loyalist.
Are you the same guy on r/monarchism?
@@thefilipinokid3575 Yes. Why?
@@footballnick2 i like you
Me as well. From what I know it was a bunch of wealthy people whipping up the rabble against taxes which mostly affected those same wealthy people. I continue to say that it could have been a situation where one had to be there to understand, but from my perspective now treason was by no means warranted; especially since they got most of what they wanted through protest beforehand.
@@codieomeallain6635 The people likely wouldn't have fought the British if they didn't try to take their guns though. Hard to trust the people who weren't doing well economically more so when they try to take really your only defense. Just like in todays world chances are if the US government actually tried to go around and take peoples firearms it would probably end up in a similar situation.
This song written at the time captures the true dynamism of 18th century warfare. The armies did not just march slowly towards each other, they moved rapidly, aggressively always looking to outflank their opponent. The battles in the American revolution, particularly towards the end of the war were fluid and kenetic
why did I watch this three times in a row
Those are rookie numbers dude.
Welsh Rebel lol what are you doing here XD
Because secretly you yearn to be a british subject again?
Jackson Miller To honour the rightful King
yeah, why not thirty
Many of them fled to Canada and make a huge addition to the population with many people today having descent
God save the Queen....
The one, true God save Ireland.
@@maximilienfrancoisderobesp202 robespierre you were the worst frenchman to ever exist
@@braydenfarrell1177 I respect Collins for not joining the anti-treaty IRA and defying democracy that republicans promised six years prior. He shouldn't have been assassinated.
@@braydenfarrell1177doesn’t make it any less barbaric and cowardly.
KING, ITS GOD SAVE THE KING
They were Americans too. :-) Beautiful song. :-) God Save The King! :-)
Would that be the King Over the Water?
Ggdivhjkjl why yes, the rightful ruler of the colonies.
@@colinmcnamara7999 I'm british by decent anyway and enjoy these songs but rights were relinquished heritage aside were all still americans buy its good to be proud of your roost so I commend you
@@braydenfarrell1177 is that a bad thing?
Loyalists identified as English (or British) citizens and wanted to remain as such.
Make. America. Great. Britain. Again !!!!
I'd love a loyalist brother to the south!
@@AAA-fh5kd What does that have to do with anything?
@Munuc Mann Loyal to America, the Queen, or Texas?
I'm a big loyalist
Nah we good. We'll stick to our nation, thanks
God bless Bennedict Arnold who returned to the crown and the many loyalist Americans ... bravo for the empire
Benedict Arnold is gay
@@carsonmiles7168 based
@@carsonmiles7168 cringe
W arnold
The problem with that sentiment is that Benedict Arnold switched to the British cause for personal reasons not out of a change of heart, his story is actually a sad downfall of a once respected general of the Continental Army, he was reduced to nothing and was shunned by the Patriots leading him to switch sides.
Got to love the American who fought with us 💪
I really wish the empire kept America as a colony, the world would be a better place. I'm American, but I know that I will always be apart of Britain. Long live Britain!! God save the queen!!
🇬🇧💙
You deserve respect for such a strong statement, also because you admit that Americans and English are single nation. That war for independence was absolutely useless. Btw hello from Russia.
If you look into it you will find that there is no such thing as the USA, it is technically still a colony of Great Britain. The declaration of independence was written as a trade contract as there was no other legal way to
do it. Take a look.
Haha, I doubt your American no patriotic one would want to join such shit Empire.
@@RobertK1993 1. I lived in the Midwest my entire life
2. The "shit empire" colonized and conquered 1/4 of all land on Earth. They also were the strongest economically until the Great War. All of this was AFTER America revolted. I'd wouldn't say that Britian was a "shit empire".
@@RobertK1993 If Britain is a shit empire then there's no such thing as a good empire lol
Stop crying and use your brain.
as an American, I respect George III, imho he was the last British monarch who remotely captured what a monarch should be
The fact that he went practically insane, and that this is true is funny to me
Demonstrably false. He was followed by many great monarchs.
Good thing that your misguided opinion on what a monarch should be is completely irrelevant.
Victoria didn't do so bad for her empire.
I am a patriotic American but I find it to be quite the tragedy that us Anglos were split like we were.
As an American who’s sick of partisan politics all I can say now is God Save the King
God bless you mate😊
So be it, GOD SAVE THE KING!
Well shit UK politics are quite the shitshow too from what I have read. But then again… God save the king!
Why this is so relaxing
I am not American nor British but I stand with the British. God save the King!
Good lad
@@BirdsfromHuntingdon Loslingos, being Welsh is also being British, Wales is part of the British Isles.
@@alexweatherburn4390 yes I know
@@BirdsfromHuntingdon Hi Cousin, my comments were directed to Loslingos who seemed unsure where Wales is. Greetings from the U.K.
@@alexweatherburn4390 Oh right. Greetings from NZ, mate. 🇳🇿🇬🇧
A salute to the brave English soldiers of the British light infantry in the American war of independence!
No, they were evil
Ah, is it because they kicked you're ass up and down the states?
@@davechambers4867Damn thats crazy, if they were so good at their job, why is America independent
@@braydenfarrell1177 Because the French, Spanish and Dutch the superpowers at the time joined in to gang up on a fledgling British Empire.
Thank you for this beautiful song .
respect to all the american loyalists who fought for the british in the american war of independence 🇬🇧
🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
Hahahahah they lost lol 😆
@@cakeyummy2401 Yup,later they burned down the white house.
@@irishredcoat6825 And we burned down the parliament building in Canada 🇨🇦 along with the entire city(modern day Toronto)
@@cakeyummy2401 true but you needed the french to help you win, and in 1814 we burned your whitehouse
I’m playing this loudly every Traitors’ Day from now on!
I love this song. I think it is time for a new rendition with informal period instruments. I have known it for over 30 years. As far as I know, this version, from Songs and Music of the Redcoats is the only recorded version. So many people do 18th Century music. I think it time someone very serious about period music freshens this up.
I think accordion is not a formal instrument, It can be used like that, but is more informal.
The American revolution could most certainly be classified as the country’s first civil war, especially in the southern theater.
Fax
I'm surprised how much the musical styling resembles Newfoundland folk music, in fact it's almost exactly the same!
Thanks! A very enjoyable listen!
For king and country engerland till I die 🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴
See? No phones in sight, just people living the moment.
Like a lot of Americans, I had ancestors who served on both sides. One man, who served with Banastre Tarleton, had his property confiscated and he personally had go flee west into Tennessee.
Glory to all 21st century loyalists,
You can feel the singer passion.
British Light Infantry, 1778
This song was published in the Royal Gazette, at New York, with the accompanying remarks: "Observing in a late paper a song written for the British Light Infantry, 1 introduced with a hint that they had not hitherto received their merited tribute from the muses, I take the liberty of making them the tender of a second musical offering, which, though never yet published, has been frequently sung and re-echoed, in loyal companies, for many months past in this city; nor will the offering, perhaps, be the less welcome, for being presented in a plain, unornamented dress, and by the hand of a loyal American refugee." The song was adapted to the tune, "Black Sloven."
I hope Todd Braisted knows about this. He's the best Loyalist resource here in the States. Love this song.
1:32 isn't this a painting of prussian soldiers?
Dang, as a American I will admit this is a serious bop.
Glory to all 21st century loyalists ❤️
God Save The King. Long Live The King.
America and Britain battled but America and Britain are Friends now :)
funny how allies change like that
Can you find a rendition - to the Tradesmans's song
for his majesty's birthday 1777 (George III)
(Sung to the tune: When Britain First at Heaven's Command)
Beautiful tune!!! ✌️🇬🇧
"Imagine using only mass formations in battle."
-this post was made by the light infantry gang
I ain't no loyalist, but this song ballin'
I love looking at the comments to see Americans and Brits still fighting
And Americans fighting amongst themselves.
It’s so goofy
I wish we were friends
Blast this out in the 4th of July
Kinda doing that. I am just wearing headphones. I hate the USA.
@@loslingos1232 that's good to
Make America Great Britain Again
@@BirdsfromHuntingdon 😂😂 your slave to America now 😂😂
@@BirdsfromHuntingdon lol 😂 British is slave to America now 😂😂
God bless the red coats 🇬🇧
No
@@CommanderVolk Yes
God bless the redcoats, especially the ones that defended Canada during the American Invasion of 1812!
@@EEYore-py1bf yea it bad enough we shoved our mother aside then we try and destroy our brother jow amazing of us were assholes my apologies
I know it's been more than two hundred plus years since both the revoluonary war and the war of 1812.
I'm a colonial loyalist/loyalist to the crown
I've haven't met any other loyalist here in america as of yet.
But i have had the pleasure and honour of meeting people from the U.K. and commonweatlh countries, and pordon me for any and all missed spelled words.
I'd say I'm a loyalist.
@@mydemonz1442 why?
@@mydemonz1442 why
Because Britain was absolutely justified to tax America. They spent a ton of money on the 7 years war, which PROTECTED the colonies from the French. And then Britain needs money so of course they tax the people they are protecting. That’s like going to a McDonalds and not paying for your meal.
@@mydemonz1442 Very well said chap!
it is beautiful to think of what could not be....God Save the King!
2 years ago?
I actually didn't think there was American loyalists till I was 13. As a person from Northern Ireland, you'd think their are none of Northern Ireland in America. When I found out about this last year in 2020 I was shocked.
RIP American loyalists, It was honor for them to remain loyal to the British king. Btw hello from Russia :)
Good riddance same with Russian Communists and Confederates
We still exist
@@ThervingianGoth yes "american by birth but british by the grace of god"cringy quote from Google that I still agree with wish there was a better one tho
Yeah even tho a lot of them fought for the Americans because they couldn’t afford the taxation
As a Proud American pro-rebel guy, I'm happy that this history is being preserved.
same, we forget that there really were people who thought we should stay with England especially during this time period
I am loyalist proudly born in Rhode island colony.
My loyalist ancestors served in Butler’s Rangers. They were upstate New York Dutch and Germans. They settled near Hamilton Ontario.
RESPECT.
God bless those who were loyal to the true king.
As a American light infantry man I love this song
I hear that some 50,000 colonial loyalists left the new republic for old Canada once the Crown's forces had gave up the fight.
They didn't "give up the fight". They were beaten and surrendered at Yorktown in 1781...
@@wattyler2994 They didn't give up the fight as a whole no but there were many that did give up and many that deserted. because there were many that didn't believe in fighting against their own people which only made them more vulnerable to defeat I mean the American Revolution was British against British really. But then don't forget the patriots or blue coats had the help of the French, the Spanish, the Dutch and it took eight years to beat the British. That's how much of a formidable force the British are when it comes to war even to this day. But then George Washington had that British ingenuity of his British great grandparents.
Most colonists didn't give a f about rebellion, only terrorists and traitors like Washington, paid with french money.
They did and true to the Crowns promises where given farming lands in Canada.
@@albogypsy2842 are you salty for something that happend over 200 years ago?
The amount of typically American (historically illiterate and ignorant) comments in the comment section is crazy
Long live King Charles....From a loyal Ulster Family....No Surrender.
This is interesting! Thank you!
First time I've heard this song. Very catchy and it's nice to get music from the other side of the conflict. One gets a bit tired of Yankee Doodle.
Vive le bon Roy Georges III
HUZZAH!
(I have Loyalist ancestors from Pennsylvania and New York)
God save the king
Happy Treason Day 🇬🇧🇬🇧
What you have to remember is that many of Washingtons soldiers were of British desent . many were born in the UK. So do not go on about Americans. They were colonists Fighting against their brothers. As we did in our civil war against king Charles the first. You were fighting against a royalist dictator. Unfortunately we had a useless commander in chief . If we have had a good one Things would be quite different now. We in the UK have had ups and downs but we are still going strong. Now that we are out of the nasty EU , we will grow even stronger.
I agree but the EU would have helped a lot
My regiment was involved in the Boston tea party, decades later with our same colour's, afghanistan. Thats the 3rd time in history as well 👍 british light line infantry
Wait, what do you mean you were involved in the Boston tea party? That was WAY back...
@Totus Tuus Oh okay. Thanks.
The founding fathers let freedom ring but never picked up the phone-Fredrick Douglass
Nice little song would like to hear it sung with a Canadian accent from one of the English speaking provinces of Canada.
13 colonies: Lets revolt because of taxes
After amarica is founded: *13 states still pay taxes*
13 states: This is totally NOT what the British did to us.
Actually many of the Americans who live in the UK, is rejecting their American nationality because - they don't want to tax where they are not living.
It’s not that they were being taxed, it’s that they were being taxed without representation in parliament
@@brremsilverte.9022 What about the nowadays, it was before the revolution.
@@brremsilverte.9022 Which only really makes sense if the Tax was going back to Britain or if the Americans where being taxed more then their British counterparts, in both cases they where not, the stamp tax was 100% for use in the colonies to start to try and pay for the defenses that had to be built there against the French, the British didn't think it was particularly fair to make the people in Britain pay for this given they already paid 17 times more in taxes on average while being half as rich as the average colonist.
A modern day example of this is when America gets annoyed at everyone else letting them carry the bill in NATO and only like 5 other countries pay their 2% requirement.
Usa need Monarchy !!
We need a Habsburg!
lonepilgrim83 We need a German King.
Herwig of Sealand for King.
@@johnsullivan186, how about Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein?
Every President the US has had has had a blood relation to Charlamagne, except for Van Buren
Does anyone know the name of the painting at 1:12?
If you want the picture, just screenshot it
It’s a Photoshop not a painting