You can expect an average temperature of around 10Â°C during March, which actually reaches a very pleasant 16Â°C on a good day, and goes down to an average low of 4Â°C in the evening. Compared to previous months, rainfall is much less in Madrid, averaging at around 30mm throughout the month, occurring on 8 days. The sun also shines for an average of 3 hours per day, slowly improving as winter drifts away.
Loyalist, also called Tory , colonist loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution. Loyalists constituted about one-third of the population of the American colonies during that conflict.
Many of the places mentioned in this section can be visited today. January 1782. The evacuation of loyalists begins. Largely unwelcome in the new United States, about 100,000 Americans who remained loyal to the crown find new lives in Britain, Canada, and British colonies in the West Indies. Among them are about 15,000 African Americans, some of whom end up helping to found the country of Sierra Leone in Africa.