Historians tend to focus on military battles or American aspects of the Revolutionary War. Little attention is given to the nearly one hundred colonial Loyalist fighting units that fought throughout the war. This study focuses on one particularly unique loyalist corps and its unparalleled leader, Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe and his Queen’s Rangers. The men under Simcoe’s command were a rather interesting bunch--a mixture of rebel deserters, loyalists, British, and Scottish This paper delves into Simcoe’s personal military journal, along with his personal correspondence, accounts from soldiers in the Rangers, and accounts from others who dealt with the corps and Simcoe. The focus of this research is not on battlefield actions, rather
