What helped solidify an English identity in the colonies?

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As many as nineteen thousand colonists served the British in the effort to put down the rebellion, and after the Revolution, as many as 100,000 colonists left, moving to England or north to Canada rather than staying in the new United States. Eight thousand whites and five thousand free blacks went to Britain. Over thirty thousand went to Canada, transforming that nation from predominately French to predominantly British. Another sizable group of Loyalists went to the British West Indies, taking their slaves with them.

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the majority of cambodians living today were born after the khmer rouge was ousted in 1979 and some who survived can forget how bad it was. when khmer rouge forces seized phnom penh on april 17, 1975, the couple was living with eight of their children in a rural town called kampong chhnang.

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answer; taking up arms to defend the nation;