Best Historical Novels About William Tryon

William Tryon

1729–1788

William Tryon was a British soldier and colonial governor who served in North Carolina and New York. In North Carolina he confronted the Regulator movement and defeated it at Alamance in 1771; during the American Revolution he supported Loyalist operations and conducted destructive coastal raids.

Tryon’s governorship of North Carolina became closely associated with the costly new governor’s residence at New Bern and with the conflict between colonial authorities and the Regulators. After defeating the movement at Alamance, he transferred to New York in 1771. During the Revolutionary War he remained a prominent Loyalist commander and took part in raids including the 1777 expedition against Danbury in Connecticut.

In Diana Gabaldon’s The Fiery Cross, Governor William Tryon orders Jamie to raise a militia against the Regulators, placing him between his obligations to the Crown and his knowledge that revolution is approaching.

Historical novels and book series featuring William Tryon (1 series)

Outlander in Order

by Diana Gabaldon 9 books 4.6(525,677)

The Outlander series follows twentieth-century physician Claire Randall after she travels through time to eighteenth-century Scotland and forms a life with Highlander Jamie Fraser. The novels move through the Jacobite rising, its aftermath, the Caribbean, colonial North America and the American Revolution, combining family saga, historical adventure, romance…