I can't imagine it as visible presence in US culture or politics initially or even lasting at all, except behind closed doors, and then that too would fade away. I think because the war had been too bitter, too long, with the Four Horsemen making 50,000 dead (multiply by 2x or 3x for wounded), that their was no space for the opposing and losing side to have an accommodated visible presence in the newly recognised United States. After all 100,000 Crown-Loyalist left after the war was over. As an example of the impossibility of having a Crown-Loyal accommodated visible presence in the USA, would be the hunting down and extermination of Crown-Loyalist Refugee and Partisan units operating in the Southern USA, after the Paris Treaty had been signed in 1783. This parallels the destruction of the Polish Home Army and the Ukrainian Nationalist units by the Soviets Post 1945, when the war was over. No peace or post war presence allowed for them, except that of the grave.
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I cannot imagine it as visible presence in US culture or politics initially or even lasting at all, except behind closed doors, and then that too would fade away. I think because the war had been too bitter, too long, with the Four Horsemen making 50,000 dead (multiply by 2x or 3x for wounded), that there was no space for the opposing and losing side to have an accommodated visible presence in the newly recognised United States. For example after the war 100,000 American Crown-Loyalists left America, as they felt they could not live in the land of their birth anymore.
After the war ended with 1783 Paris Treaty, there is given to us a further example, of the impossibility of having a Crown-Loyal accommodated visible presence in the newly recognised United States, the example being the hunting down and massacre of Crown-Loyalist Refugee and Partisan units that had operated in the Southern rebel Colony's during the war. Even after the Crown defeat at Yortown, when both sides knew that the Motherland had lost the war, Crown-Loyalist Refugee, Associators, Ranger & Partisan units operating deep behind rebel-lines were still finding Loyal Americans volunteering to serve in their ranks. This being the equivalent of a death sentence.
(A historical parallel can be found in the destruction of the Polish Home Army and the Ukrainian Nationalist units by the Soviet Red Army and Chekists post-1945, when the Second War was over.)
For Americans who were Crown-Loyalists: No peace or post-war presence would be allowed for them, except that of the grave.
