A Great and Noble Scheme – The Tragic Story of the Expulsions of the French Acadians from their American Homeland: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion ... French Acadians from Their American Homeland - Softcover

Faragher, John Mack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393328279 ISBN 13: 9780393328271

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 09 Pages: 592 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. In 1755 the New England troops embarked on a great and noble scheme to expel 18.000 French-Speaking Acadians (the Neutral for 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 itish 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. John Mack Faragher draws o...

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"Delves deeply and with rueful wisdom into a terrible crime perpetrated by European imperialists and American colonists."

Synopsis:

Documents the August 1755 forced relocation of some eighteen thousand neutral French residents from the Nova Scotia province by European imperialists and American colonists, an act that separated families and resulted in the deaths of thousands of Acadian residents. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393328279
• ISBN 13: 9780393328271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592