American Loyalist Song- "The British Light Infantry"

One of the hardest things to find is an American Loyalist song. I found a song however that was allegedly written by a Loyalist about the Kings soldiers fighting the rebels in the colonies.
I own nothing in this video. All credit goes to rightful owners. For educational and entertainment use only. Not made for monetary gain.
1:25 painting is by Robert Griffing. All credit goes to him.

[@stumccabe]

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.

[@wattyler2994]

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...☠

[@KopperNeoman]

@Wat Tyler You forgot to capitalise the P. Small p patriot requires loyalty to one's country, not to revolutionary ideals.

[@jimweights8908]

Wat Tyler patriots support the British.

[@kesfitzgerald1084]

It is only a matter of time until the remainder see the error of their ways.

[@wattyler2994]

@@jimweights8908 like those who stormed the Capitol building? Yeh of course.

[@maxpax4441]

This is a popular folk song in English-Canada

[@spooky_cat401]

Makes sense, a lot of Ontario's first english colonists were American loyalists that fled the states

[@unatco1148]

@@spooky_cat401 There are more canadians of english descent than americans.

[@patrickwright6343]

@@unatco1148 really? there is over 70 million of them here I thought

[@guardsmangaming3775]

@@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

[@lengskeng1072]

Bloody tune, wish I was born in the 18th century and that I could leave behind all these snowflake liberals

[@cocoaexists]

Bro props to this guy for going back 256 years to record this

[@MegaFortinbras]

As a former light infantryman, I really enjoyed this song.

[@winkleried]

Ditto

[@epicgamingcommunistcheems4267]

Then your about 300 years old

[@ee-hp6qm]

@@epicgamingcommunistcheems4267 dude light infantry is still a division in the British army man

[@phurt89]

Light infantry, is anything but.

[@MegaFortinbras]

@Dorian Redwine Why?

[@richardgeorge2245]

Played this in the dollar store. Now its called poundland

[@Romanovs-wh4ej]

damn imma yake my homie there

[@Chewable396]

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.

[@Chewable396]

@@SireJaxs *laughs in Fed Reserve*

[@sumthingrandom_]

ok dont care atleast im not bri ish

[@alexanderbarnes8991]

Why I'm a loyalists.

[@cocoaexists]

Atleast I have better dental health

[@negative8music810]

@@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

[@seronymus]

The Loyalists are so fascinating, Thank you for this!

[@TheFofotron]

@@RobertK1993 Cringe

[@visayanmissnanny2.076]

@@RobertK1993 you're very special

[@roguespearsf]

@Digger Gardi you sound like the average American who still buys into the left vs right dichotomy, you're a modern loyalist

[@prussiankingdom1693]

They petty much fleed to Canada. They are no longer Americans. Except the modern ones, which are cringe.

[@robertcook9201]

@@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?

[@couldbeanybody2508]

Redcoats and their loyalist allies were interesting. Good video

[@couldbeanybody2508]

Welsh Rebel thanks I guess? It's auto correct.

[@gatolocoverga152]

I prefer call The lobsters to British infantry. It is nice

[@vitorfaster3577]

If these loyalists love taxes so much, they should come to Brazil, and have all kid of taxes that they can imagine

[@couldbeanybody2508]

@@vitorfaster3577 or maybe they just don’t like the idea of treason

[@vitorfaster3577]

@@couldbeanybody2508 can be

[@samb1123]

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.

[@DaChaGee]

So are you Canadian?

[@dehcho99]

@@DaChaGee I am.

[@tinypie9659]

@@JW-zx5dr it's almost 3 centuries since the war of independence

[@JW-zx5dr]

@@tinypie9659 Yes, but every American seems to be under the impression that they were all revolutionaries. Without taking into account loyalists

[@kurgan8900]

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.

[@golf_supa]

It rarely to see a Loyalist song-Good job that you found one!

[@Ethan_Edgar1209]

America meby but not northern ireland

[@ME-hs1ie]

@@Ethan_Edgar1209 No Surrender lad. Ulster forever

[@DarrenRFC]

could name about 30😭 fs man these plastic fans are even talking about loyalist music🤣🤣

[@hunteryoungblood649]

Because the UK sucks, burn it down and free Scotland🇺🇸❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Aml_07]

@@hunteryoungblood649 correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not a Scotsman singing this song?

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

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.

[@wattyler2994]

There's a reason why this sort of "loyalist" music is only played in Northern Ireland. And fat lot of good it does them...

[@urmum3773]

@Digger Gardi sung by a scott, I think

[@JW-zx5dr]

@@wattyler2994 Sure you beat us Brits and Loyalists pretty good (German auxiliaries too) but there is a chance that 1 your ancestors didn’t live in what would become the US at the time, and another chance is that if they were from one of the thirteen colonies they would have been loyalists.

[@wattyler2994]

@Kerimcan Ak ulster Scots is a dialect not a language

[@wattyler2994]

@Kerimcan Ak Arguably, but that doesn't make Ulster Scots a language

[@patrioticarchive]

Glory to the Empire!

[@juandomingoperon7965]

As a Rebel, I can't deny the beauty of this song.

[@turinturambar6234]

*LOS MUCHACHOS PERONISTAS*

[@ungusbungus2486]

One of my favorites

[@clnGabAsp]

BASED P E R O N

[@keithkennedy-tyson8578]

It's good to hear a song that may have been sung my my ancestors before their exile.

[@JW-zx5dr]

Did they get exiled to Canada or elsewhere?

[@keithkennedy-tyson8578]

@@JW-zx5dr Firstly to Canada, then back to Britain and last out to Australia as free settlers.

[@JW-zx5dr]

@@keithkennedy-tyson8578 Very interesting!

[@happydog2905]

I am not American, I am Canadian and Scottish, but I certainly am a British loyalist. Proud of my province British Columbia.

[@LydiaMoMydia]

I also love the empire

[@iagreesbut]

Imagine simping for the Bri'ish

[@fyrdman2185]

@@iagreesbut Imagine being an Amerimutttt

[@Falkriim]

@@iagreesbut Nothing wrong with liking your heritage man.

[@Falkriim]

Ah, I love B.C.! especially Whistler, that place is beautiful.

[@dominicv2485]

God Save the King.

[@drjamesallen6012]

Dominic V King Charles is getting ready, soon? Lol

[@myroyaldragon8563]

He died

[@nariyah8374]

Dominic V king George is not a very good king

[@ThervingianGoth]

@@nariyah8374 He did fight Napoleon, no one talks about that though.

[@Sybok51288]

@@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?

[@markaxworthy2508]

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.

[@dehcho99]

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.

[@DC-ep7he]

God Bless His soul

[@JW-zx5dr]

@@jitrax-_-5206 Who the loyalist or the revolutionaries?

[@saxtonhalegaming]

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

[@zsombortelek8411]

@@saxtonhalegaming Hanging people was pretty common back then as far as I know.

[@dehcho99]

@@saxtonhalegaming it was probably me. I have another KZbin account sometimes I'm not sure which one I'm using.

[@EmpireofTheWaves]

God bless them

[@Bobstan]

I like this song

[@borkerman]

Played this in Washington (D.C) It's now Wallington

[@loslingos1232]

Good

[@balieythe_dog140]

LOL

[@borkerman]

@@AnEnglishPerson someone hasn't played HoI4

[@globe0147]

@@borkerman gamer. Also no gf.

[@ComradeChilliBeans]

@@loslingos1232shut up terrorist

[@binaway]

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.

[@noodlyappendage6729]

Doesn’t surprise me at all.

[@timothycunningham7352]

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.

[@rpm1796]

Slavery ended in Canada West, (Ontario) in 1793.

[@ruadhagainagaidheal9398]

Ah , but that would have needed an imaginary creature - an honest politician.

[@johnbrereton5229]

@@rpm1796 Slavery was banned in England in the 12th century. And the slave trade throughout the Empire in 1807.

[@anon8740]

@@johnbrereton5229 The reason OP says 1830s though is because that's when slavery was banned empire-wide

[@johnbrereton5229]

@@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.

[@bruh949]

Fun fact most pro-Brits moved to Canada but some stayed. I know some loyalists today over in the USA

[@yersipest]

God Save the Empire!

[@europaprimum7050]

Though I'm from America, I'd probably be a Loyalist.

[@thefilipinokid3575]

Are you the same guy on r/monarchism?

[@europaprimum7050]

@@thefilipinokid3575 Yes. Why?

[@presidentofallfoodnice8113]

@@europaprimum7050 i like you

[@codieomeallain6635]

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.

[@sinisterwrecks]

@@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.

[@sean..L]

God save the queen! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸

[@joutakujo9773]

🇳🇿🇦🇺🇦🇮🇻🇬🇰🇾🇨🇰🇫🇰🇲🇸🇳🇺🇵🇳🇬🇸🇸🇭🇹🇻🇹🇨

[@a_random_orthodox_Christian]

For king and country

[@voidcatto1805]

🇬🇧🇧🇲🇦🇺🇦🇮🇦🇨🇨🇰🇨🇦🇩🇬🇫🇯🇫🇰🇬🇸🇭🇲🇰🇾🇲🇸🇳🇿🇳🇺🇵🇳🇹🇦🇹🇨🇸🇭🇻🇬🇹🇻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@joutakujo9773]

RedSpartan 822 your pfp scares me, it's moving

[@voidcatto1805]

@@joutakujo9773 Strange it does not for me

[@aladore1380]

Loving this. Up the Empire! 🇬🇧

[@aladore1380]

@Digger Gardi I think you're taking this comment far too seriously.

[@ThatGuy-B48]

As an American who’s sick of partisan politics all I can say now is God Save the King

[@peterpassmore5389]

God bless you mate😊

[@Beencheeling]

So be it, GOD SAVE THE KING!

[@JoeWilikers]

Well shit UK politics are quite the shitshow too from what I have read. But then again… God save the king!

[@TheGrowler55]

I'm British through and through long may it continue from Glasgow.

[@itsperimo]

Shame the snp is breaking the union up:(

[@BirdsfromHuntingdon]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@itsperimo]

@@BirdsfromHuntingdon🇬🇧🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇧🇲🇨🇰🇨🇼🇩🇬🇫🇯🇫🇰🇬🇮🇬🇸🇭🇲🇰🇾🇲🇸🇳🇺🇳🇿🇵🇳🇸🇭🇹🇦🇹🇨🇹🇻🇻🇬 (couldn't find the rest)

[@ME-hs1ie]

No Surrender from Ulster, hands across the water

[@namsamram]

You’re dna would say otherwise also Scottish not British

[@illegalalien6199]

Rest in Peace. True Americans.

[@jitrax-_-5206]

Fuck you

[@arbendit4348]

@@jitrax-_-5206 yeet

[@cakeyummy2401]

Frick off

[@jitrax-_-5206]

@Your local Austro-Hungarian Infantryman lmao 🤣🤣🤣

[@wattyler2994]

No the True Americans are those who owned the land before the settlement of the continent by European Colonists

[@liam7664]

Based 🇬🇧🇨🇦

[@WilliamEvans-kh1gj]

Brothers for every 🇬🇧🇨🇦

[@zacstuart3861]

You should look into finding more American Loyalist Music.

[@Rikard_A]

There are a few - but they are obscure.

[@godkingandcountry7081]

If anyone finds a video send it to me. This is the only one I could find.

[@tankace3711]

@@godkingandcountry7081 umm can you do the falklands war song

[@jollyswashbuckler]

@@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"

[@williampitt3343]

Nah.... you have plenty of those, Zac. Nice to have a more balanced playing field, wouldn't you say?

[@Stand663]

I remember when I went to New England. I couldn’t believe it. It looked just like a village in the English Home Counties.

[@WorldsLoneliestMan]

Love from Canada 🇬🇧🤝🇨🇦

[@maxrlx5467]

When you realize that you started a revolution because you had to spend a dollar extra on paper and couldn't buy smuggled goods:

[@OnCydig]

And slaves because anti slave laws were being passed.

[@thebrittaniondragon6183]

A year late but lets not forget the Tyranny of not allowing the colonists to settle native land

[@santijauregui459]

The American revolution could most certainly be classified as the country’s first civil war, especially in the southern theater.

[@iagreesbut]

Fax

[@jamesbancroft2467]

as an American, I respect George III, imho he was the last British monarch who remotely captured what a monarch should be

[@ethanwillis7369]

The fact that he went practically insane, and that this is true is funny to me

[@Spindacre]

Demonstrably false. He was followed by many great monarchs.

[@Yamezzzz]

Good thing that your misguided opinion on what a monarch should be is completely irrelevant.

[@loslingos1232]

I am not American nor British but I stand with the British. God save the King!

[@BirdsfromHuntingdon]

Good lad

[@alexweatherburn4390]

@@BirdsfromHuntingdon Loslingos, being Welsh is also being British, Wales is part of the British Isles.

[@BirdsfromHuntingdon]

@@alexweatherburn4390 yes I know

[@alexweatherburn4390]

@@BirdsfromHuntingdon Hi Cousin, my comments were directed to Loslingos who seemed unsure where Wales is. Greetings from the U.K.

[@BirdsfromHuntingdon]

@@alexweatherburn4390 Oh right. Greetings from NZ, mate. 🇳🇿🇬🇧

[@nahidbethehonoredone]

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!

[@protonmaximum6193]

Pretty much because we're all in Canada lol

[@zyzor]

PROTON MAXIMUM not quite. We still exist in America in small numbers. God save the queen. Death to traitors and rebels!!!

[@comradep8519]

@@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

[@varangiangaming7178]

@@zyzor we shall be back

[@jollyswashbuckler]

@@protonmaximum6193 commenwealth needs to take america back! the natives say so.

[@bearsagainstevil]

God bless Bennedict Arnold who returned to the crown and the many loyalist Americans ... bravo for the empire

[@carsonmiles7168]

Benedict Arnold is gay

[@captainrex5947]

@@carsonmiles7168 based

[@LSB859]

@@carsonmiles7168 cringe

[@PrivateMcPrivate]

W arnold

[@JPEG785]

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.

[@davechambers4867]

A salute to the brave English soldiers of the British light infantry in the American war of independence!

[@iagreesbut]

No, they were evil

[@davechambers4867]

Ah, is it because they kicked you're ass up and down the states?

[@braydenfarrell1177]

​@@davechambers4867Damn thats crazy, if they were so good at their job, why is America independent

[@glennridsdale577]

I’m playing this loudly every Traitors’ Day from now on!

[@LuccaMorandin]

*God Save Your Majesty, King George III of England, Scotland and Ireland!* 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Tom-bs1em]

@@braydenfarrell1177 well neither is George king… he’s dead.

[@wattyler2994]

Not in Scoland. He would be Seoras III and the Hanoverians would still be usurpers of the true royal family - the Stuarts

[@foundationofBritain]

@@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"?

[@foundationofBritain]

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.

[@wattyler2994]

@@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

[@gameram6382]

Got to love the American who fought with us 💪

[@bradleyhoyt3188]

They were Americans too. :-) Beautiful song. :-) God Save The King! :-)

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Would that be the King Over the Water?

[@colinmcnamara7999]

Ggdivhjkjl why yes, the rightful ruler of the colonies.

[@anthonypiranio7836]

@@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

[@joemama-yf7gn]

@@braydenfarrell1177 is that a bad thing?

[@c.norbertneumann4986]

Loyalists identified as English (or British) citizens and wanted to remain as such.

[@Hickokboy]

You can feel the singer passion.

[@Jupiterssilhouette]

Many of them fled to Canada and make a huge addition to the population with many people today having descent

[@richard9444]

God save the Queen....

[@maximilienfrancoisderobesp202]

The one, true God save Ireland.

[@kets4443]

@@maximilienfrancoisderobesp202 robespierre you were the worst frenchman to ever exist

[@kets4443]

@@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.

[@sethlovell8424]

@@braydenfarrell1177doesn’t make it any less barbaric and cowardly.

[@ee-hp6qm]

KING, ITS GOD SAVE THE KING

[@park-jj4wo]

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

[@thischannelisretiringforaw9620]

respect to all the american loyalists who fought for the british in the american war of independence 🇬🇧

[@BirdsfromHuntingdon]

🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@cakeyummy2401]

Hahahahah they lost lol 😆

[@irishredcoat6825]

@@cakeyummy2401 Yup,later they burned down the white house.

[@cakeyummy2401]

@@irishredcoat6825 And we burned down the parliament building in Canada 🇨🇦 along with the entire city(modern day Toronto)

[@thischannelisretiringforaw9620]

@@cakeyummy2401 true but you needed the french to help you win, and in 1814 we burned your whitehouse

[@JoeWilikers]

I am a patriotic American but I find it to be quite the tragedy that us Anglos were split like we were.

[@hotpiss]

Unfathomably based.

[@jacksonmiller7644]

why did I watch this three times in a row

[@Panzerfanlol]

Those are rookie numbers dude.

[@Beachview461]

Welsh Rebel lol what are you doing here XD

[@Aaron-lr1di]

Because secretly you yearn to be a british subject again?

[@baronofbahlingen9662]

Jackson Miller To honour the rightful King

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

yeah, why not thirty

[@Sinang026]

Why this is so relaxing

[@GTomFitzpatrick]

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.

[@danielbruceagra9022]

I think accordion is not a formal instrument, It can be used like that, but is more informal.

[@gumshoe2273]

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.

[@anselmdanker9519]

Thank you for this beautiful song .

[@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456]

See? No phones in sight, just people living the moment.

[@HT-gv1be]

For king and country engerland till I die 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@ethanstepney3156]

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."

[@ericturner7173]

I hope Todd Braisted knows about this. He's the best Loyalist resource here in the States. Love this song.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

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!

[@buster3266]

Dang, as a American I will admit this is a serious bop.

[@danallen3947]

Glory to all 21st century loyalists,

[@lennonkelly-james2693]

The American Revolution was basically Brits fighting Brits because one side wanted to do tax evasion.

[@Bella-fz9fy]

Exactly,they didn’t want to help pay for the wars in North America that had protected them from the French and which had been costly!

[@xbqchm]

Agreed 100%. The American War of Independence was one of the most pointless bloodsheds in history. The epitome of arrogance, greed and stubbornnes on behalf of both parties. What could have been a series of peaceful negotiations turned into relentless slaghter among the sons of the same nation.

[@sinisterwrecks]

@@xbqchm To be fair the way it started was the British trying to take colonist weapons. Many colonists made it very clear they did not want that to happen knowing they could be exploited afterwards. Like you said though both sides are to blame for failing to work something out peacefully and avoiding the violence.

[@Ihni2000]

No taxation without representation, and the colonies bled and suffered in the French and Indian War too so acting like the colonies just sat aside while Britain did the work is just blatantly untrue and insulting. Imagine fighting a war, getting injured and losing friends and relatives in said war, and then when you get home a Government on the other side of the Atlantic you have no voice in starts stripping away the autonomy you once had and starts levying taxes because apparently you and your countrymen’s sacrifices were apparently insufficient and you need to pay up. The American Revolution was basically an already culturally diverse and distinct coalition of irritated colonists fighting Brits because one side had a problem and decided to do fix it by pissing off what used to be loyal subjects.

[@lennonkelly-james2693]

@@Ihni2000 The 13 colonies had to pay less tax and had much more autonomy than people living in Britain at the time.

[@francialada6375]

America and Britain battled but America and Britain are Friends now :)

[@Xeno_Channel]

funny how allies change like that

[@hahahe7239]

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!! 🇬🇧💙

[@quintusmapping3236]

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.

[@robertdavis4817]

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]

Haha, I doubt your American no patriotic one would want to join such shit Empire.

[@hahahe7239]

@@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".

[@PlatypusGB]

@@RobertK1993 If Britain is a shit empire then there's no such thing as a good empire lol Stop crying and use your brain.

[@danielmoralez3]

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.

[@mydemonz1442]

I'd say I'm a loyalist.

[@JD-ob1jf]

@@mydemonz1442 why?

[@Cacaborea]

@@mydemonz1442 why

[@mydemonz1442]

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.

[@bingbongbingbongbingbongbi4384]

@@mydemonz1442 Very well said chap!

[@noodlyappendage6729]

Beautiful tune!!! ✌️🇬🇧

[@poisondax4771]

I ain't no loyalist, but this song ballin'

[@chaos7547]

I love looking at the comments to see Americans and Brits still fighting

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

And Americans fighting amongst themselves.

[@idontwantmyrealnameonhere5955]

It’s so goofy

[@ungusbungus2486]

I wish we were friends

[@T0M_X]

Glory to all 21st century loyalists ❤️

[@gabrielboi3465]

"Imagine using only mass formations in battle." -this post was made by the light infantry gang

[@olek5903]

Blast this out in the 4th of July

[@loslingos1232]

Kinda doing that. I am just wearing headphones. I hate the USA.

[@olek5903]

@@loslingos1232 that's good to

[@BirdsfromHuntingdon]

Make America Great Britain Again

[@kingscorpion26m]

@@BirdsfromHuntingdon 😂😂 your slave to America now 😂😂

[@kingscorpion26m]

@@BirdsfromHuntingdon lol 😂 British is slave to America now 😂😂

[@princessdianasexplosivepet1524]

This is interesting! Thank you!

[@mithridateseupator3492]

My loyalist ancestors served in Butler’s Rangers. They were upstate New York Dutch and Germans. They settled near Hamilton Ontario.

[@davechambers4867]

RESPECT.

[@Simon_de_Cornouailles]

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.

[@wattyler2994]

They didn't "give up the fight". They were beaten and surrendered at Yorktown in 1781...

[@unhooked25]

@@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.

[@albogypsy2842]

Most colonists didn't give a f about rebellion, only terrorists and traitors like Washington, paid with french money.

[@Delogros]

They did and true to the Crowns promises where given farming lands in Canada.

[@felipevillalba9311]

@@albogypsy2842 are you salty for something that happend over 200 years ago?

[@trainsandbusesirelandandbeyond]

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.

[@quintusmapping3236]

RIP American loyalists, It was honor for them to remain loyal to the British king. Btw hello from Russia :)

[@RobertK1993]

Good riddance same with Russian Communists and Confederates

[@ThervingianGoth]

We still exist

[@anthonypiranio7836]

@@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

[@Bountyhopper]

Yeah even tho a lot of them fought for the Americans because they couldn’t afford the taxation

[@balasabence4553]

it is beautiful to think of what could not be....God Save the King!

[@Yamezzzz]

2 years ago?

[@tomriordan4121]

As a Proud American pro-rebel guy, I'm happy that this history is being preserved.

[@theamazingaviator1084]

same, we forget that there really were people who thought we should stay with England especially during this time period

[@gatolocoverga152]

I am loyalist proudly born in Rhode island colony.

[@JW-zx5dr]

People are really bitter about this in the comments, good to finally see someone with some brainpower.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

HUZZAH! (I have Loyalist ancestors from Pennsylvania and New York)

[@colonelolrik4447]

Vive le bon Roy Georges III

[@alexanderthegreat3591]

As a American light infantry man I love this song

[@southernmonarchist6550]

Make. America. Great. Britain. Again !!!!

[@EEYore-py1bf]

I'd love a loyalist brother to the south!

[@EEYore-py1bf]

@@AAA-fh5kd What does that have to do with anything?

[@EEYore-py1bf]

@Munuc Mann Loyal to America, the Queen, or Texas?

[@ThervingianGoth]

I'm a big loyalist

[@tacobellappreciater]

Nah we good. We'll stick to our nation, thanks

[@robnewman6101]

God Save The King. Long Live The King.

[@azizt6773]

Long live Britain L America

[@DS-wk9gb]

Lobsterbacks!

[@originalpost1925]

If only those godforsaken French and Spanish hadn't supported the American Rebels, maybe the British would have still had the 13 American colonies.

[@zembood_zaran]

They provoke anglos each other

[@davewilson4058]

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.

[@Loyalist-ul6qm]

All day ill listen tae this come on ye rebel.

[@Anglisc1682]

The amount of typically American (historically illiterate and ignorant) comments in the comment section is crazy

[@JW-zx5dr]

I love this song

[@loslingos1232]

Same

[@balieythe_dog140]

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.

[@bultaoreunne4495]

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.

[@brremsilverte.9022]

It’s not that they were being taxed, it’s that they were being taxed without representation in parliament

[@bultaoreunne4495]

@@brremsilverte.9022 What about the nowadays, it was before the revolution.

[@Delogros]

@@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.

[@theylivewesleep.5139]

God bless those who were loyal to the true king.

[@Starpommm]

The Times They Are a-Changin’

[@andyw8025]

Happy Treason Day 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@russellscott2737]

Long live King Charles....From a loyal Ulster Family....No Surrender.

[@99IronDuke]

Great stuff.

[@SerbianWarCriminal420]

The founding fathers let freedom ring but never picked up the phone-Fredrick Douglass

[@robharvey8347]

God save the king