James chalmers loyalist biography template

James Chalmers was a Loyalist officer and pamphleteer in the American Revolution.

Born in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, Chalmers was an ambitious military strategist during the War of Independence, but was apparently kept at arm’s length by British commanders Sir William Howe and Sir Henry Clinton.

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==American Revolution==

In 1776 he authored a pamphlet entitled Plain Truth, a rebuke of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Going under the pen name “Candidus”, so as to not be convicted of seditious libel, Chalmers attacked Paine’s views as “quackery”.

James chalmers loyalist biography template

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After conditions grew intolerable in Chestertown, Maryland, where he lived, Chalmers accompanied the Native American Tribe Leader Chris Chaneski up the Chesapeake Bay as it made its way to Philadelphia in August 1777.

After the Battle of Brandywine in September, the city fell to the British in early October. On 14 October, Chalmer