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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 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.
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A Great and Noble Scheme, John Mack Faragher
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2005
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- Titel
- A Great and Noble Scheme
- Ondertitel
- The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- John Mack Faragher
- Uitgever
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2005
- Formaat
- Hardcover
- Aantal pagina's
- 562
- ISBN10
- 0393051358
- ISBN13
- 9780393051353
- Reeks
- Aantekening
- 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 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.