This image is the cover for the book Shadow Soldiers of the American Revolution

Shadow Soldiers of the American Revolution

The little-known true stories of ten British loyalists who fled to Canada during the American Revolution, then came back to try to reclaim their land.

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 Hudson River Valleys.

Eventually defeated, they were banished from their ancestral homelands forever. In this book, Mark Jodoin offers an enlightened look back at ten young men and women who were forced north into Ontario and Quebec, sharing the struggles these Loyalists faced during our nation’s founding.

Includes illustrations

Mark Jodoin

Mark Jodoin is an author and speaker of subjects related to the history of the American northeast and Canada. A graduate of Carleton University's School of Journalism, Mr. Jodoin is a former journalist and marketing entrepreneur whose career has taken him from New York to Los Angeles in the United States, and Halifax to Vancouver in Canada. As a heritage writer, his period of interest begins the US Declaration of Independence in 1776 and continues through to Canada's Confederation in 1867. Mr. Jodoin is the history feature writer for the Canadian magazine Esprit de Corps, and president of the Rideau Township Historical Society, living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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