Ebook: A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
Author: John Mack Faragher
- Tags: Acadians -- Migrations -- History., Acadians -- Relocation -- History., Nova Scotia -- History -- To 1763., Nova Scotia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century., Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century., France -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century., Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century., France -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century., North America -- Historiography., North America -- Ethnic relations.
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- City: Fr
- Edition: 1St Edition
- Language: English
- epub
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 scaleDownload the book A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland for free or read online
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