books.google.ca - The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies...http://books.google.ca/books/about/An_Unsettled_Conquest_The_British_Campai.html?id=XWwtrvUzceIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAn Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia