ENGLISH

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

By John Mack Faragher

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company;Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Year
2005
ISBN
0-393-05135-8, 9780393051353, 49-1992-492-5, 10-1980-197-2, 15-1993-139-5, 0-393-32827-9, 978-0-393-24243-0
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6171000 bytes)
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
544\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
Acadians -- Migrations -- History.;Acadians -- Rel

Description

John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it. 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 Mikmaq 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

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