A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American HomelandIn 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 Mìkmaq 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. |
Contents
L Ordre de BonTemps The French Arrival in lAcadie 16041616 | 1 |
Seigneurs et Rouriers The Birth of the Acadian People 16141688 | 35 |
Cunning Is Better than Force Life in the Borderland 16711696 | 71 |
Nos Amis les Ennemis The English Conquest 16961710 | 99 |
The Meadows of LAcadie Imperial Designs and Acadian Desires 17101718 | 125 |
To Gett Them Over by Degrees Controversy Over the Oath 17181730 | 151 |
The French Neutrals Years of Acadian Prosperity 17301739 | 179 |
Placd Between Two Fires Paul Mascarene and Imperial War 17391747 | 209 |
Driven Out of the Country The Decision to Remove the Acadians JuneJuly 1755 | 313 |
Gone All Gone The Expulsion AugustDecember 1755 | 335 |
Removed to a Strange Land The Exiles 17551758 | 365 |
Chasse à Mort The Refugees 17561760 | 393 |
The Rays of the Morning End of the Removal Era 17601785 | 417 |
Le Grand Dérangement Memory and History | 443 |
Notes | 481 |
Permissions | 539 |
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Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French ... John Mack Faragher No preview available - 2006 |
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Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America Philip Marchand No preview available - 2007 |