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

Faragher, John Mack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393051358 ISBN 13: 9780393051353

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2005

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"Delves deeply and with rueful wisdom into a terrible crime perpetrated by European imperialists and American colonists."

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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 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.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393051358
• ISBN 13: 9780393051353
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544