I don't know.

When the Americans fought the English, did the many Yanks of English descent side with the English?

Just asking Mr O.

Dear Chris,

How much can a koala bear?

Actually a great deal.

He's koalified.

Check his koalafications.

But Mr O, I am researching the issue of loyalty to Australia by our Chinese community. Really fascinating questions, albeit difficult to answer.

If you find any useful links, please attach.

Glad you raised the issue given the pressure the CCP places on chinese living abroad.

MR O

here is the CCP approach

Among this diaspora, carrots and sticks are deployed to recruit agents. The carrots are promises of good jobs and houses if and when they return to China. The sticks include refusing visas and threats to harm families.

Chinese students studying abroad are a particular focus. Graduate students may become sleeper agents, activated only if they find themselves in jobs with access to desirable information, particularly if it is of scientific, technological or military value.

A programme called the Thousand Talents Plan aims to recruit highly qualified ethnic Chinese people to ‘return’ to China with the expertise and knowledge they’ve acquired abroad. Alternatively, those loyal to China can ‘remain in place’ to serve.

The U.S. Department of Energy, whose work includes nuclear weapons and advanced R&D on energy, has been heavily targeted to this end. Around 35,000 foreign researchers are employed in the department’s labs, 10,000 of them from China. In Silicon Valley, around one in ten high-tech workers is from mainland China.

According to one report, so many scientists from the science and technology labs of Los Alamos have returned to Chinese universities and research institutes that people have dubbed them the ‘Los Alamos club’.

Dear Chris Lewis,

When the US fought the English about one-third were Loyalists, one-third were revolutionaries and one-third were neutral. In the early stages all thought of themselves as English and wanted representation in parliament. One revolutionary slogan was, "Taxation without representation is tyranny". The crown employed many Hessians (German mercenaries) to fight for it.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/american-revolution-faqs

"Over the course of the war, about 231,000 men served in the Continental Army, though never more than 48,000 at any one time, and never more than 13,000 at any one place. The sum of the Colonial militias numbered upwards of 145,000 men. France also dispatched a substantial force to North America beginning in 1779, with more than 12,000 soldiers and a substantial fleet joining the Colonial Americans by wars end.

At its peak, the British Army had upwards of 22,000 men at its disposal in North America to combat the rebellion. An additional 25,000 Loyalists, faithful to Great Britain, participated in the conflict as well. Nearly 30,000 German auxiliaries, or Hessians, were hired out by German princes and served alongside the British for the duration of the war."

thanks David, I was hoping to get some detail to what I asked.

I take it some of the troops in the Continental army also had English backgrounds, but they would have seen themselves as part of the new colony.