A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland
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Features of A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
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.
Specification of A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
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Author | John Mack Faragher |
Binding | hardcover |
Language | english |
Edition | First Edition |
ISBN-10 | 393051358 |
ISBN-13 | 97803912 |
Publication Year | 2005-02-17T00:00:01Z |
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