correspondence meaning, correspondence definition | English Cobuild dictionary. correspondence. 1 n-uncount Correspondence is the act of writing letters to someone. The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into..., His interest in writing came from a long correspondence with a close college friend.
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War. At the time they were often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men; Patriots called them persons inimical to the liberties of America..
Decembrists, in Russian history, members of secret revolutionary societies whose activities led to the uprising of Dec., 1825, against Czar Nicholas I. Formed after the Napoleonic Wars, the groups comprised officers who had served in Europe and had been influenced by Western liberal ideals.