A great and noble scheme : the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American homeland
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- ISBN: 0393051358
- Physical Description xx, 562 pages : illustrations, maps
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : W.W Norton & Co., [2005]
- Copyright ©2005
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-538) and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 42.00 |
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A Great and Noble Scheme : The Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
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A Great and Noble Scheme : The Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mìkmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale.