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The United Empire Loyalists were the American residents who were against the war against England. Most of them felt that England was only exercising her right to tax the colonists, who were causing England much expense. The United Empire Loyalists mostly emigrated to Canada, settling in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provences.
Those who remained loyal to Britain were known as loyalists, or United Empire Loyalists.
The 'United Empire Loyalists' were those people who supported Britain during the American Revolution, and who wished to remain British subjects afterward by relocating to British Colonies, especially Nova Scotia and Upper Canada (which later became Ontario).
About 500,000 Loyalists left America.
The patriots were the revolutionaries fighting for the independence of the colonies, whereas the loyalists remained loyal to the crown and The United Kingdom hence the name, loyalists were loyal.