A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of

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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

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 scale.
Country USA
Brand WW Norton & Co
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2005-02-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393051353

Country	USA
Brand	WW Norton & Co
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2005-02-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393051353

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

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