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

Name: A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
ISBN: 9784919924923

John Mack Faragher

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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

种类:

History - American Studies

年:

2005

出版:

1St Edition

出版社:

W. W. Norton & Company;Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic

语言:

english

页:

544