Loyalist (American Revolution)

: This article concerns Loyalists in the American Revolution. For other uses of the word "loyalist", see the disambiguation page.

Loyalists & Key Figures of the Revolution

• Benedict Arnold (Brigadier General, commissioned about close of 1780)
• Joseph Brant Thayendenegea (commander of Iroquois forces)
• Montford Browne (Brigadier General, commanding Prince of Wales American Regiment, 1777)
• John Butler (Colonel commanding Butler's Rangers in the Mohawk Valley)
• Guy Carleton (Governor General of Canada, commander at the Battle of Quebec)
• Henry Clinton (Lieutenant General, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in America)
• Robert Cunningham (Brigadier General, in 1780 in command of a garrison in South Carolina)
• Oliver DeLancey (Brigadier General, commanding Delancey's Brigade 1776)
• William Franklin (governor of New Jersey, founder of Rutgers)
• Reuben Hankinson (Ensign, First New Jersey Volunteers, September 1780) http://www.hankinsononline.com/Reuben.htm
• Sir John Johnson (commander of the King's Royal Regiment of New York)

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• Alexander McKee (liaison between the British and the Shawnees)
• James Moody (Lieutenant, First New Jersey Volunteers, March 1781) http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1800-67/List.htm#M
• Robert Rogers (commander of The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC), innovator of ranging tactics)
• Cortlandt Skinner (Brigadier General, commanding New Jersey Voluneteers, Sept. 4, 1776)
• John Taylor (Captain, First New Jersey Volunteers, January 1781)
• William Tryon (Major General and Commander-in-Chief of the Provincial forces in America)