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 On September 4, 1755, The Pennsylvania Gazette Printed A Dispatch From The Maritime Province Of Nova Scotia: We Are Now Upon A Great And Noble Scheme Of Sending The Neutral French Out Of This Province, Who Have Always Been Secret Enemies, And Have Encouraged Our Savages To Cut Our Throats. If We Effect Their Expulsion, It Will Be One Of The Greatest Things That Ever The English Did In America; For By All Accounts, That Part Of The Country They Possess, Is As Good Land As Any In The World: In Case Therefore We Could Get Some Good English Farmers In Their Room, This Province Would Abound With All Kinds Of Provisions. At The Time These Words Were Published, New England Troops Acting Under The Authority Of The Colonial Governors Of Nova Scotia And Massachusetts Were Systematically Rounding Up More Than Seven Thousand Acadians, The French-speaking, Catholic Inhabitants Who Lived In Communities Along The Shores Of The Bay Of Fundy. Men, Women, And Children Alike Were Crowded Into Transport Vessels And Deported In Small Groups To Other British Colonies Across The Continent Of North America. Piecing Together The Scattered Remnants Of Acadian Civilization In Documents And Sources Buried Deep In Archives, Historian John Mack Faragher Provides The First Comprehensive, Thoroughly Researched, And Historically Accurate Account Of The Expulsion From Both British And Acadian Points Of View.--jacket. L'ordre De Bon-temps : The French Arrival In L'acadie, 1604-1616 -- Seigneurs Et Roturiers : The Birth Of The Acadian People, 1614-1688 -- Cunning Is Better Than Force : Life In The Borderland, 1671-1696 -- Nos Amis Les Ennemis : The English Conquest, 1696-1710 -- The Meadows Of L'acadie : Imperial Designs And Acadian Desires, 1710-1718 -- To Gett Them Over By Degrees : Controversy Over The Oath, 1718-1730 -- The French Neutrals : Years Of Acadian Prosperity, 1730-1739 -- Plac'd Between Two Fires : Paul Mascarene And Imperial War, 1739-1747 -- Discord And Desolation : The British Buildup, 1748-1753 -- By Fire And Sword : The Siege Of Beauséjour, December 1753-july 1755 -- Driven Out Of The Country : The Decision To Remove The Acadians, June-july 1755 -- Gone, All Gone: The Expulsion, August-december 1755 -- Removed To A Strange Land : The Exiles, 1755-1758 -- Chasse à Mort! : The Refugees, 1756-1760 -- The Rays Of The Morning : End Of The Removal Era, 1760-1785 -- Le Grand Dérangement : Memory And History. 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"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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. 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. 40 illustrations, 6 maps Documents the August 1755 forced relocation of some eighteen thousand neutral French residents from the Nova Scotia province by European imperialists and American colonists, an act that separated families and resulted in the deaths of thousands of Acadian residents. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. THE FRENCH COLONIZATION OF l'Acadie began in earnest on 13 May 1606, when the Jonas, a vessel of 150 tons, loaded with provisions and carrying forty men, weighed anchor at the port of La Rochelle and sailed for the infant outpost of Port Royal on the far side of the Atlantic.