so elizabeth johnston's father fights in the army.he goes to britain for a little while and gets a loyalist claim. he files a loyalist claim. he then resettles in nova scotia the number one place for loyalist refugees, and he ends up living the rest of his life there, dying there, and is buried in annapolis royal in nova scotia. the reason this fits in with the second question which is a fascinating question about, essentially, memory of these conflicts, um, is that, you know, my suggestion that the loyalists are victors in the end is, in a sense, brought out by the fact that we don't have this kind of lost cause literature. we don't have them sort of raising secret toasts like the jackabites to the restoration of the monarchy in america, and we don't have this kind of lore folklore, songs of loss in the way that, for example the french acadians brought down to louisiana. why don't we have that? well, we don't have it partly because they got reintegrated into the british empire. they remained british summits from first to last -- subj

elizabeth johnston was just a girl when the american revolution began. she was born in georgia and 1764, and the war had an inverted for world when has happened to thomas brown a patriot mob came to her father's plantation and effectively chased him off his plantation, leaving elizabeth his mother had died basically an orphan of war. she spent the next several years living in the custody of relatives family friends while her father fought and british forces elsewhere on the continent. and she next saw her father at the age of 15. she is no longer grow, now a young woman. and so it takes a some time to get reacquainted with one another. in particular her father has to do with the fact that now at 15c is you know a teenager and is able to fall in love. she falls in love with one of his brother officers, a sort of reddish captain called william johnston who served in the loyalist regiment as well, who is from a prominent family in savannah. he was now entering the work as a dashing, fashionable in occupied new york he was a gambler and charmer and flirt. he