The Huguenot Diaspora and the American Revolution

By S. Griffin

The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to the diaspora of an estimated 200,000 French Protestant Huguenot refugees throughout Europe and North America in what is known as Le Refuge. These Huguenots often intermingled and intermarried with earlier French Protestant Walloon refugees from the Spanish Netherlands. By the time of the American Revolution many of these refugee families had achieved significant political and economic power in their host nations. The result was that a large percentage of key American, British, French, and various German speaking participants in the American Revolution had at least partial Huguenot ancestry. This work focuses on what actual effects these Huguenots and their descendants had on the American Revolution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982946393
• ISBN13: 9781982946395
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"