A Great and Noble Scheme
The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
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 Engl…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-32827-1
- EAN: 9780393328271
- Produktnummer: 2172273
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.2 cm x D3.8 cm 550 g
- Abbildungen: 40 illustrations, 6 maps
- Gewicht: 550
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale. He is the author of many books on American history, including a biography of Daniel Boone that received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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