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A great and noble scheme : the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland /
"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 Throat...
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New York :
W.W Norton & Company,
[2005]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.