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Outspoken supporters of the King were threatened with public humiliation (such as tarring and feathering) or physical attack. However relatively few Loyalist civilians are thought to have been killed by mobs; two men in Philadelphia were officially executed for supporting the British.   

Outspoken supporters of the King were threatened with public humiliation (such as tarring and feathering) or physical attack. However relatively few Loyalist civilians are thought to have been killed by mobs; two men in Philadelphia were officially executed for supporting the British.   

===Military service===

==Military service==

The Loyalists rarely attempted any political organization.  They were often passive unless regular British army units were in the area. The British, however, assumed there existed a highly activist Loyalist community that was ready to be mobilized. London planned much of its faulty strategy around raising Loyalist regiments who would do most of the fighting.  The British provincial line, consisting of Americans enlisted on a regular army status, enrolled 19,000 American Loyalists (50 units and 312 companies). Another 10,000 served in Loyalist militia or "associations."  The maximum strength of the Loyalist provincial line was 9,700 in December 1780.<ref>Smith 264–7; Calhoon p. 502.</ref> In all about 50,000 at one time or another were soldiers or militia in British forces, including 15,000 from the main Loyalist stronghold of New York.<ref>Van Tyne, pp. 182–3.</ref>

The Loyalists rarely attempted any political organization.  They were often passive unless regular British army units were in the area.  

 

The British, however, assumed there existed a highly activist Loyalist community that was ready to be mobilized. London planned much of its faulty strategy around raising Loyalist regiments who would do most of the fighting.  The British provincial line, consisting of Americans enlisted on a regular army status, enrolled 19,000 American Loyalists (50 units and 312 companies). Another 10,000 served in Loyalist militia or "associations."  The maximum strength of the Loyalist provincial line was 9,700 in December 1780.<ref>Smith 264–7; Calhoon p. 502.</ref> In all about 50,000 at one time or another were soldiers or militia in British forces, including 15,000 from the main Loyalist stronghold of New York.<ref>Van Tyne, pp. 182–3.</ref>

== Emigration ==

== Emigration ==